Parents talk to their kids, and read to them, including children’s books and alphabet books and nursery rhymes and “say ‘ma-ma’! go on… ‘ma-ma’!” and so on; and parents play with their kids, and build or buy playpens, etc., etc. What is that, but “problems” and “projects”?
It’s play. In extremely rare cases like A Mathematician’s Lament, people do propose that teachers play with their students about the subject matter, but mostly problem sets and projects are not assigned by the same methods by which language is introduced to children. If the OP were proposing that professors play with their students, I’d be more sympathetic, and have brought up the babies as a confirming rather than disconfirming example!
It’s play. In extremely rare cases like A Mathematician’s Lament, people do propose that teachers play with their students about the subject matter, but mostly problem sets and projects are not assigned by the same methods by which language is introduced to children. If the OP were proposing that professors play with their students, I’d be more sympathetic, and have brought up the babies as a confirming rather than disconfirming example!