Strongly disagree. It's not intrinsic motivation, it's fear of failing. That's a terrible lesson to instill in children. I do agree that's a useful life skill,

Strongly disagree. It's not intrinsic motivation, it's fear of failing. That's a terrible lesson to instill in children. I do agree that's a useful life skill, but that is really scraping the barrel for reasons why homework works. The problem there is we can find examples where there is no homework and a functional, thriving society behind it [0] 0: https://www.bbc.com/news/education-37716005 https://www.bbc.com/news/education-37716005