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I was pretty unreliable about homework, but the school I went to didn't necessarily take it out of my grades. At the time, I felt that the homework was unneces
by three14 17y ago
I was pretty unreliable about homework, but the school I went to didn't necessarily take it out of my grades. At the time, I felt that the homework was unnecessary to learn the material being taught, so it was a waste of time.
Now, with kids of my own, I'm wondering if the reason I have so much trouble doing work that I find uninteresting, even when I intellectually believe that I'd be happier having done it, is that I never practiced doing boring work while everyone else was. So even if homework is useless as a teaching tool, maybe the act of doing boring work teaches a useful life skill.
- Tichy 17y agoWhy should it have been easier to learn that as a kid than as an adult? You were bored as a kid, you are bored now.
- caffeine 17y agomaybe the act of doing boring work teaches a useful life skill Yes - it teaches passive compliance. But this life skill is more useful to those assigning the drudgery than to those doing it.
- three14 17y agoI already have passive compliance down pat. I wait on lines at the Social Security Administration with the best of them. I do have trouble sitting down to comment my code, though. And I think certain skills are better learned as a child.