You have to make your own decisions. I will help you if you ask and only if I can but bottom line is that you have to make your own decisions. I will not stand in your way or deny you the opportunity of exploring your intelligence and creativity by providing all the answers for you because that will not be fair. You are not created to be a copycat; you are unique in your own individually characteristic way so try to understand why I cannot give you my ideas to copy. I can guide your thinking in the right direction, but I cannot duplicate my thoughts and plans to you as this only limits your thinking and capability and makes you see yourself through someone else's eyes instead of your own.
I am sorry if you think that I am being mean. Look at things from a different perspective, I always do. Imagine if you asked me a question and I gave you the answer the way I would have answered it straight away, no questions asked. 'Good', you may think. The positive thing here is that I have made your work easier, quicker and less laborious because all you have to do is to copy and paste the answer and voila! Job done. No sweat. No worries. And its free, you do not have to spend too much time researching and working out how to solve the problem. After all, why should you when the solution has been provided for you? I have planted an idea into your head which you cannot use to help you generate your own ideas which in this case means that you are actually not growing intellectually except in a dependent-on-me way. The next time you have a question that needs an answer, all you have to do is send it to me and I will answer it for you. Okay, you may think that this is easy for you, and it probably is. You wonder why you should sweat when I am here to do all the dirty work for you. Ha ha!
Then comes the negative but positive response where I tell you that I know the answer but I will not give it to you directly. Instead, I give you references to books or articles that I think will be of help to you and let you read through them and come up with your own interpretation of the material which you then go ahead to use to formulate a creative answer to the question in a you-alone style only identifiable to yourself and for which you personally take credit. In the process of doing this, you use your thinking and reasoning abilities and generate alternative responses to the question which after critically thinking about from various perspectives, you finally arrive to the decision that you feel best answers the question. You have taken a lot of time doing this and spent sleepless nights working on a suitable response. You have got frustrated sometimes and left the work alone, almost given up, but motivated yourself to keep going and gradually developed a resounding interest in the work which has eventually led you to write an unforgettable essay. You are about to hand in your work when you proudly look back at all the effort you put in and agree with yourself that it was worth it. The time you spent learning new study skills has paid off. And the most satisfying thing is that these skills will stay with you forever. The next time you are given a question to answer, you will not be looking for me to do it for you. You will put your best foot forward and make a start because you know that the journey of a thousand steps begins with the first step. You made it and yes, you did it yourself. You are above the moon! (I would be too if I was in your shoes!)
Over to you. Decide.
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