mhoyeOn a consulting gig now, and one of the things I'm running into - one of the things I _always_ run into - is the huge cultural shift for young hires from a schoolwork mindset to a job. We spend 20 years telling kids that they need to do their own work or they'll be plagiarizing or cheating and get failed or kicked out, and then they start job work where collaboration and shared effort and learning are _everything_, and just convincing people to ask for help, that asking is a skill, can be hard.
aoanla@mhoye this is also part of the problem we have for 1st year university students - if we ask you a question at University, it's not because you're going to get in trouble because you don't know (or because we want you to quote the bit from the script we gave you), but because we're interested in how you're thinking (and learning happens when we explore what you currently understand and work towards more things). It takes at least a year to get past what school has taught students to assume is how things work.