We must focus on teaching skills and assessing if they're learned. Faculty should be more 'hands-off' in the lab. Students need to learn how to ask questions and how to find information. They need to learn initiative. We give cookbook labs and students anticipate the answer because we set them up.
Flexibility counts more than loyalty.
In industry, projects are so big that there's no way one person can do it singlehandedly. But somehow you must still judge the individual's performance. We must train students to think like scientists not become 'cookbook chefs'. Throw away the lab books and let students design their own labs. This is the job of the faculty.