The biggest thing I would tell someone trying to do that is - make the work engaging, solving real world problems - use real world problems to teach theory in a

The biggest thing I would tell someone trying to do that is - make the work engaging, solving real world problems - use real world problems to teach theory in action. Too much of my schoolwork was hypotheticals that were questions no one would need to ask (and obviously so to me at the time), or by rote memorization of facts and figures, without teaching much understanding of why those things are important to know.