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Sat, 31 May 2014 09:10:15 +0000

Essay Prompt
A colleague of the great scientist James Watson remarked that Watson was always “lounging around, arguing about problems instead of doing experiments.” He concluded that “There is more than one way of doing good science.” It was Watson’s form of idleness, the scientist went on to say, that allowed him to solve “the greatest of all biological problems: the discovery of the structure of DNA.” It is a point worth remembering in a society overly concerned with efficiency.

Adapted from John C. Polanyi, “Understanding Discovery”

Assignment
Do people accomplish more when they are allowed to do things in their own way? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.

Your Response
The " Laissez faire " leadership style has been used throughout the world centuries ago and has survived and is until now, still in use today. It is evident that the survival of this leadership style, which allows people to do as they wish as long as they have completed the task before the dead line does work in our society.This was illustrated countless number of times such as when the great scientist James Watson managed to discover the structure of DNA by simply doing as he wished. I believe that our educational system in today’s society doesn’t allow the creativity of the students in the system to be exploited and used. Our system instead teaches students to not be creative and to simply memorize things by heart. A famous quote says " You are only intelligent because you agree with what every one else says , now if you contradict what every one says then every one says you are dumb, even though you could be correct ." I have an example for that. I myself have experienced this and truly believe that I do accomplish better things when I am allowed to do it in my own way. For example, my math teacher as teaching our class how to solve quadratic equations using a method. I myself didn’t really like his method as it involved using a plethora of numbers and complicated equations. I decided to research his method on the internet to understand it better but I stumbled upon a website that suggested that my teacher’s method was a very complicated method and that there was a much simpler method of solving the equation. I followed the website’s way of solving the equation and found it much easier than my teacher’s method. I discussed it with my teacher and asked him why he did not introduce the method I saw on the internet. He told me that he himself did not personally like that method and preferred his method , but he admitted that the method I saw on the internet was perfectly correct. Due to the fact that I knew how to use that new method I could now actually solve the equations and give the correct answer. Even though every one else in my class used my teacher’s method only 75% understood it and could use it to find the answer. The other 25% were clueless on how to solve the equations. Except me, because I researched it and solved it in another way. You might be thinking to yourself that writing about how to solve an equation is not very clever but that was not the main point. The main point was that , there is not a single way to do something and that some people prefer one way of doing something whilst other people prefer an other way.At the end of the day, it should be the person who is doing the task that should choose which way suites him best ,as the person will have to use it in his/her work so it is best if the person feels comfortable and sure with his/her method.