Who Invented Homework?
My feelings now are that there really shouldn&#x27;t be any mandatory homework.<p>- If you do it badly, you may as well not do it. Who else remembers flipping through &quot;The Catcher in the Rye&quot; so fast they don&#x27;t actually remember any other character than Holden Caulfield?<p>- It&#x27;s an easy way for teachers to not teach, yet gives them an alibi. &quot;Look I&#x27;m teaching, they have loads of books to read. Can&#x27;t help it if they don&#x27;t.&quot;<p>- If you already understand it, you don&#x27;t benefit from solving more quadratic equations. You benefit from doing whatever the next step is. You just burn time plugging things into (-b +- sqrt (b<i></i>2-4ac)) &#x2F; 2a. And you learn the wrong lesson, which is that you have to get it exactly right, rather than why that&#x27;s the equation in the first place.<p>- You end up testing which kids have peaceful homes, and parents who care. Some kids just can&#x27;t do any homework with the home environment they&#x27;re given. School should be such that it doesn&#x27;t matter if your parents are drunks or academics.<p>- Totally fine with doing like in University: here&#x27;s a mega list of interesting things related to the subject, go and browse around, get a feel for what the landscape is like. Come back more interested.