The longer I teach the more I am inclined to emphasize each students' strengths, and ferreting out their individual learning styles, versus dwelling on their weaknesses. I am finding that because of this the 'Pygmalion Effect' is maximized. Students who came into my design or sketching classes doing poor work are beginning to do some very good or acceptable work due to encouragement and praise. I would rather be remembered as the instructor who spent serious time with each of them one-on-one and helped them get over their sometimes self-inflicted hurdles than the instructor who made the classes so impossible and unnavigable for them that either stopped attending, were frequentely absent or failed due to lack of improvement.