It's always difficult to remember one's mindset as a child. Likely as not, I'm projecting my adult ideas on memories. That said.. I hated homework. I also rar

It's always difficult to remember one's mindset as a child. Likely as not, I'm projecting my adult ideas on memories. That said.. I hated homework. I also rarely did it. I scribbled something between classes, copied and came empty handed. The whole thing put a strain on my relationship with teachers and school and general. I always identified with being a bad student, and I suspect homework may have been the root cause. I really don't think homework worked for me. What I don't understand today, is why a 9 or 14-year old who spends 35 hours per week in a school needs homework? Is there really a need for an extra 3 or 10 hours per week? Surely, the quality of a kid's attention in the 7th or 9th-hour in a day isn't as good as their first. Is it that "everyone work on these math problems for 30m" isn't something that works in a classroom? Adults have been complaining about after-hours work, in the age of laptops and smartphones. Why is it good for kids? OTOH, exams and project work did work for me. With a Douglas Adams Crisis Inducer (a device that creates an artificial crisis situation of selectable severity, in order to sharpen the wits of the user), I could get 20 days of work into 1. I could sprint like a champ (and was proud of it) but I couldn't march. I'm still this way. I reckon schooling would have been a lot more effective for me personally if it was built around monthly exam or project watersheds, but I don't really know. At the risk of cliche, we probably need more tailored/flexible education systems. Dunno though... "Create a system that educates every person" is a hard task. IDK how you'd do that. Relative to a lot of things at this kind of scale, education is very effective.