Carleton University - Raven Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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A change in the rigidity of our present marking system or an instructor's promissory note that unorthodox research designs would not be penalized, might help overcome some of the student's deeply ingrained resistance to taking a more independent approach in selecting research topics and in pursuing these. Also, if the research subject is by nature rather theoretical or speculative, this might be of help in guiding the student toward greater independence of thought. Good theoretical approaches are a scarce commodity in most fields, and this shortage may force the student to become a creator and inventor, i.e., a producer of ideas, as it removes the temptation to remain exclusively a borrower of ideas published elsewhere. Recognizing the fact that a student's time for each course is a highly rationed commodity, sometimes better results might be achieved if the instructor did not too rigidly insist on a finished product . An imaginative research design for the study of a specific subject may have a higher intellectual yield and may be a better guide for his future studies, than a mediocre approach that comes up with conventional findings. I am not arguing for a reduction of the library budget or for sloppy student papers but for a somewhat greater willingness on the part of the faculty to tolerate and on the part of students to accept the risks of a more adventurous academic approach. Let us adopt the motto of living dangerously, academically speaking, and let us not paralyze our mental efforts by introducing to scholarship welfare attitudes which should guide our economic and social behaviour. Harald von Riekhoff

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