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Homework should be abolished
Homework has been around since the 1st century. In the early 1900's a pedagogy named Roberto Nevilis implemented homework as a punishment. And now, around the world it has become popular. Some educators believe that homework should still exist while others believe that it's not necessary. What do you think and why?
I have mixed feelings about it. On the one hand, if a child is in school six or seven hours a day, then it seems unfair to extend that into what should be their free time. There is also the argument that after a long school day it can sometimes be difficult to focus attention on menial academic tasks. However, it could also potentially be argued that homework nurtures and develops independent study skills, which are vital to higher education. In fact, I suspect that homework is where certain (i.e. more socially awkward) children thrive, who perhaps are less prepared to get involved in group learning.
Obviously there is no one-size-fits-all way to do this, and I think you are acknowledging that reality.
On the one hand, if a child is in school six or seven hours a day, then it seems unfair to extend that into what should be their free time.
Consider that 7 hours a day for 190 days a year comes to 1330 hours. Let's assume kids are awake for 14 hours a day, equaling 5110 hours. This makes school only 26% of their waking lives. That SHOULD mean that schools are responsible for helping the kids learn only 26% of what they need to know to be successful in life.
The other 74% of what they learn should come from parents, friends, relatives, neighbors, religious leaders, bosses at work, etc..
That is not society's expectation, though, is it? When kids do not learn enough of what they need, the schools are blamed, not the parents, grandparents, churches, or neighbors, despite the fact that they are the ones who are failing most of the kids.
As a result, schools have increasingly picked up the slack, and homework is much of how they fill in the for the missing parts of the 74%. For most kids, the majority of their education (formal and informal) is provided by school teachers, and the homework they assign.
This is why finishing high school (whether with diploma or GED) is one of the main predicting factors of lifelong income.
When I have been a student (total of over 27 years) I had homework, and when I did it, I learned more.
When I was a teacher, I assigned homework. According to the tests I gave my students, the ones who did the homework learned more (or at least more of what I was teaching.)
There are three main reasons homework is a highly useful part of the educational program.
- 1 - Homework is a way to develop and hone skills.
Most of what comprises education is skills:
Math
Reading
Writing
Thinking analytically
Applying the scientific method
Voch/tech skills
Etc.
To develop skills, people need to practice. In class, there is often guided practice, so that students can get additional guidance in the skill, but there is too little class time to effectively develop the skills. Homework is the independent practice required to master skills.
- 2 - Homework is an opportunity to acquire knowledge.
Some of what students are supposed to obtain at school (in addition to skills) is knowledge. There is a whole lot more information in the curriculum than is transmittable in 190 hours (one school year of a one-hour class.) This means that students need to spend time outside of class learning some of the information, usually by reading from the textbook.
Sometimes the knowledge is also used to develop skills. In English classes, for example, students have to read a book so they can discuss it in class. The analysis and discussion skills are the focus, and it helps for the whole class to have the same basis of info to discuss. There is not enough time to read the whole book in class, so students need to read it outside of class, as homework. Then the class time can be devoted to learning and practicing thinking and discussion skills.
- 3 - Homework is a way to teach and instill independence.
Hidden in the development of skills and acquisition of knowledge is another set of skills that add up to the ability to learn independently. The highest goal of school is to teach students how to become independent learners and critical thinkers so they can live the rest of their lives learning what they need or want to know without having to depend on institutions or other people.
When I was a teacher, I told my students that the whole point of my job was to become obsolete.
Caveat
Of course, how useful or necessary the homework is depends largely on what the curriculum is, and whether it matches the needs of the individual student.
I believe that conservatives need to be banned from the internet and put in concentration camps where they will be force fed Marxism until they puke and ask for seconds.
Mhm. Concentration camps of course have never been used by the far right. Indeed, as Bronto and yourself both agree, history is wrong and Hitler was a lefty.
Mhm. Concentration camps of course have never been used by the far right. Indeed, as Bronto and yourself both agree, history is wrong and Hitler was a lefty.
Hitler. Social justice warrior.
Hitler was a socialist who gave full credit to Marx , so take some pride in that buddy
Hitler was a fascist who included the word "socialist" in his party name to win votes from the German left. Shut up you moron.
"Why," I asked Hitler, "do you call yourself a National Socialist, since your party programme is the very antithesis of that commonly accredited to socialism?"
And Mussolini, who created fascism, said all kinds of left wing things too. Why do they all say left wing things? Why don't these jagaloons ever say things in their quotes like "capitalism is good."......
And Mussolini, who created fascism, said all kinds of left wing things too
Mussolini's father was a socialist and Mussolini himself joined the socialist party in his youth. The socialist party kicked him out for life and he later went on to change his views and found The Italian FASCIST Party.
Omissions such as these are absolutely typical of your foolhardy treachery towards the facts. Remember last week when you claimed the leader of the Unite The Right movement was on the left? Lol. According to you every solitary right wing terrorist and fascist political leader was and/or is on the left. You'll happily mention that Mussolini said some left wing things (without making clear he said them while he was still young), but you'll make absolutely no mention of the fact that he later grew older and literally declared war on socialism in Italy.
The things you say are so retarded that it is addictive replying to them. You make people think to themselves: "He can't really believe that, can he? Nobody is that stupid".
Mussolini's father was a socialist and Mussolini himself joined the socialist party in his youth. The socialist party kicked him out for life and he later went on to change his views and found The Italian FASCIST Party.
Yes. He tells us all about it in his wikiquotes. He even describes fascism by name as left wing.
The Fascist State directs and controls the entrepreneurs, whether it be in our fisheries or in our heavy industry in theVal d'Aosta. There the State actually owns the mines and carries on transport, for the railways are state property. So are many of the factories… We term it state intervention… If anything fails to work properly, the State intervenes. The capitalists will go on doing what they are told, down to the very end. They have no option and cannot put up any fight. Capital is not God; it is only a means to an end.
As quoted in Talks with Mussolini, Emil Ludwig, Boston, MA, Little, Brown and Company (1933), pp. 153-154, Interview took place between March 23 and April 4, 1932
Remember last week when you claimed the leader of the Unite The Right movement was on the left? Lol. According to you every solitary right wing terrorist and fascist political leader was and/or is on the left.
Jason Kessler voted for Obama and supported him right up until Trump was elected.
Where did I get that from? Oh look. It's Snopes.
Was Jason Kessler a Barack Obama supporter?
True. He told us (and has consistently said elsewhere) that he was an Obama supporter and voted for him.
Voted for a black man, was a left wing advocate and member of Occupy Wallstreet, Trump was elected, and suddenly he's organizing klan rallies of 12 people and ANTIFA shows up but no one gets killed...
According to... Wait for it... JASON KESSLER. Ahahahaha! You see the problem here buddy?
A far right terrorist leader claims he once voted for Obama and in your impossibly stupid little bubble of idiocy that is enough for you to qualify him as a lifetime Democrat. Nevermind that he later went on to organise a neo-Nazi rally at Charlotteville. He claimed he voted for Obama therefore he's a Democrat for life.
You're hilariously stupid son. Hilariously. What other highly credible sources do you have apart from those two bastions of truth, Jason Kessler and Hitler?
A far right terrorist leader claims he once voted for Obama and in your impossibly stupid little bubble of idiocy that is enough for you to qualify him as a lifetime Democrat.
Or that, mixed with his past interviews being as a left wing advocate, and being a part of Occupy Wallstreet.
But as always, you are ignoring the obvious. The right doesn't claim or want him.
They are allowed to change their minds, but if you are familiar with Alinsky tactics, and we both are, it's pretty obvious. Occupy Wallstreet advocate months before organizing "Unite the Right"...
Obviously no they are not, otherwise you would not have insisted that the leader of the "Unite The Right" rally is a Democrat on the basis that he claimed he once voted for Obama.
if you are familiar with Alinsky tactics
I am not familiar with them. I had never even heard the name Saul Alinsky before you began spamming it in chat. I thought he was a character in Breaking Bad, tbh.
t's pretty obvious
Let me just clarify this a second. You are saying it is "perfectly obvious" that the leader of the Unite The Right neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville is a Democrat on the basis that he personally claimed he once voted for Obama?
Obviously no they are not, otherwise you would not have insisted that the leader of the "Unite The Right" rally is a Democrat on the basis that he claimed he once voted for Obama.
And was a vocal left wing advocate only months before organizing a klan rally with not enough klan members to be believable.
I am not familiar with them. I had never even heard the name Saul Alinsky before you began spamming it in chat. I thought he was a character in Breaking Bad, tbh.
Sure you are. In his book "Rules for Radicals" he told you that if someone pins you in a debate to call them a Nazi to try and shut them up. What? You thought I hadn't noticed?
it's pretty obvious
Let me just clarify this a second. You are saying it is "perfectly obvious" that the leader of the Unite The Right neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville is a Democrat on the basis that he personally claimed he once voted for Obama?
And was an Occupy Wallstreet advocate months before the "rally".
If I'm not familiar with him then obviously I won't have read his book will I you flaming retard?
And was an Occupy Wallstreet advocate
According to an unknown, unnamed, anonymous source. Can you explain to us why you are perfectly willing to believe unknown, unnamed, anonymous sources when the things they say suit your fascist political narrative, but simultaneously you will happily reject the quantifiable research of historical scholars about which side of the political spectrum Hitler occupied?
When your double standards are that ridiculous, every debate becomes an immediate loss.
According to an unknown, unnamed, anonymous source.
According to Wikipedia, your favorite source.
Up to 2008, Kessler was a supporter of Democrats and held avid liberal views. He'd worked for Secrest Strategic Services and had voted for Barack Obama during his presidential run. He also engaged in activism with the Occupy movement before being dismissed for attempting to register homeless individuals. In a public Facebook post by former college friend, Jenny Rebecca, Kessler lived for a time in government-subsidized housing with a roommate who was described as an African Muslim.
Explain why no quotes on wikiquote reflect your claim.
Explain why you don't understand English.
We declare war against socialism
Stanislao G. Pugliese, Fascism, Anti-fascism, and the Resistance in Italy: 1919 to the Present, Oxford, England, UK, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., (2004) p. 43. Mussolini’s speech in Milan, March 23, 1919
The things you say are so retarded that it is addictive replying to them. You make people think to themselves: "He can't really believe that, can he? Nobody is that stupid".
You haven't rebutted any of it succesfully and in most cases, at all. Wonder why...
Red herrings aren't going to help you here Nom. I'm still waiting for you to explain why Nazis were eating up Hitler's left wing speech if they were a bunch of right wingers.
No, it obviously does not sound "right wingy", because you have omitted the part where he was kicked out of the socialist party, converted to fascism, declared war on socialism and allied himself with the most notorious far right dictator in 20th century history. Essentially, everything he ever said and/or did after about 1919.
Open your mouth for some more medicine buddy ......you’re welcome ....
Adolf Hitler
We are socialists. We are enemies of today’s capitalistic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are determined to destroy this system under all conditions.
Sounds just like Marx buddy , he did say he owed Marxism a huge debt , make you feel proud buddy ?
Because it seems inseparable from the social idea and we do not believe that there could ever exist a state with lasting inner health if it is not built on internal social justice, and so we have joined forces with this knowledge.
"Why We Are Anti-Semites," August 15, 1920 speech in Munich at the Hofbräuhaus. Translated from Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 16. Jahrg., 4. H. (Oct., 1968), pp. 390-420. Edited by Carolyn Yeager
Fascism establishes the real equality of individuals before the nation… the object of the regime in the economic field is to ensure higher social justice for the whole of the Italian people… What does social justice mean? It means work guaranteed, fair wages, decent homes, it means the possibility of continuous evolution and improvement. Nor is this enough. It means that the workers must enter more and more intimately into the productive process and share its necessary discipline… As the past century was the century of capitalist power, the twentieth century is the century of power and glory of labour.
Four Speeches on the Corporate State, Rome, (1935) pp. 39-40. Speech delivered to the workers in Milan. Eric Jabbari, Pierre Laroque and the Welfare State in Postwar France, Oxford University Press, (2012) p. 46
How many times does it actually have to be explained to you that Adolf Hitler is not a credible source of information because he was very possibly the biggest liar in political history? When you quote Hitler to me and expect to be taken seriously it can only be because you have the intellectual capacity of an autistic three year old.
Hitler's idea of "social justice" was murdering millions of people you retard. Do you think cherry-picking a Hitler quote from your Bible of fascist speeches takes back the Holocaust?
Shut up you goddamned annoyingly stupid, backwards little twerp.
How many times does it actually have to be explained to you that Adolf Hitler is not a credible source of information because he was very possibly the biggest liar in political history
How many times do I have to explain to you that a right winger wouldn't pretend to be a leftist, unless his Nazi minions were leftists?
How many times do I have to explain to you that a right winger wouldn't pretend to be a leftist
Open a book you stupid child.
The majority of scholars identify Nazism in both theory and practice as a form of far-right politics.[14] Far-right themes in Nazism include the argument that superior people have a right to dominate other people and purge society of supposed inferior elements.[15] Adolf Hitler and other proponents denied that Nazism was either left-wing or right-wing, instead they officially portrayed Nazism as a syncretic movement.
Hitler couldn't obtain power in Germany without securing the vote from the German left because Marxism was sweeping across the European working class like wildfire. Hence, he told lies about how extreme right his party was in order to win their votes.
I have explained this to you literally over a dozen times. You can read the same thing by opening up any history book written in the last fifty years you impossibly stupid little neo-fascist twerp.
I believe that conservatives need to be banned from the internet and put in concentration camps where they will be force fed Marxism until they puke and ask for seconds.
Murdering millions of people in a racist purge isn't social justice?
Nom caught proving he is a Hitlerian fascist
You literally just quoted Hitler at me you impossibly stupid child. You can't regurgitate Hitler's lies about "social justice" and then call someone else a Hitlerite in your next post. I don't pay any attention to the things Hitler said, but you quote him on an hourly basis you idiot.
I believe that conservatives need to be banned from the internet and put in concentration camps where they will be force fed Marxism until they puke and ask for seconds.
You literally just quoted Hitler at me you impossibly stupid child. You can't regurgitate Hitler's lies about "social justice" and then call someone else a Hitlerite in your next post. I don't pay any attention to the things Hitler said, but you quote him on an hourly basis you idiot.
1)I only quote him when you bring him up, which is about every ten minutes. You seem to be obsessed with him.
2)Joseph Goebell's private letters to people are anti capitalist.
3)It's a nice Alisnky try Nom. The old, you can't quote Hitler in a debate about Hitler, when it was me who brought up Hitler tactic....
Not only is that completely false, but it doesn't explain why you are selectively repeating lies Hitler told the German people seventy years ago and pretending they are true. I do not believe Hitler, but you clearly do believe Hitler. Hence, have a good hard think about which one of us that makes a "Hitlerite" you retarded neo-fascist buffoon.
Not only is that completely false, but it doesn't explain why you are selectively repeating lies Hitler told the German people seventy years ago and pretending they are true.
You're pinned either way Nom. Either Hitler meant every word he said or tricked a mass of Germans who think just like you into murdering 6 million Jews.
I do not believe Hitler, but you clearly do believe Hitler.
See above.
Hence, have a good hard think about which one of us that makes a "Hitlerite" you retarded neo-fascist buffoon.
Well, let's see Nom. If he had stood up and said all of the things in wikiquote, guess which one of us would have cheered while he trashed capiralism.
Err no, I'm not pinned because I'm not the one of us getting his information from Adolf Hitler. That's you buddy.
Either Hitler meant every word he said or
Or he lied about every word he said? No, I'm afraid that's false and stupid. Nobody lies 100 percent of the time. Not even you.
See above.
Above does not tell me why you seemingly believe words spoken by Hitler which have since been proven to be untrue. Perhaps you should try again.
If he had stood up and said all of the things in wikiquote
He trashes the left in a good percentage of the quotes on the same Wikiquote page you cherry-picked your own quote from you idiotic bastard. You literally went fishing for Hitler quotes where he pretends to have some sympathy for socialism, like you always do, because you are a neo-Nazi. That's exactly what Hitler himself would have done in your own position you berk.
Err no, I'm not pinned because I'm not the one of us getting his information from Adolf Hitler. That's you buddy.
So why were Nazis following and applauding fake left wing speech?
Either Hitler meant every word he said or
Or he lied about every word he said? No, I'm afraid that's false and stupid. Nobody lies 100 percent of the time. Not even you.
So why were Nazis following and applauding fake left wing speech?
See above.
Above does not tell me why you seemingly believe words spoken by Hitler which have since been proven to be untrue. Perhaps you should try again.
Cool. So why were Nazis following and applauding fake left wing speech?
If he had stood up and said all of the things in wikiquote
He trashes the left in a good percentage of the quotes on the same Wikiquote page you cherry-picked your own quote from you idiotic bastard.
No. He trashes a specific part of leftism. Bernie Sanders and Nancy Pelosi do the same. They are still leftists.
You literally went fishing for Hitler quotes where he pretends to have some sympathy for socialism, like you always do, because you are a neo-Nazi. That's exactly what Hitler himself would have done in your own position you berk.
Uh huh. Hitler would give antisemitic speech, like you and unlike me.
Here's an entire site, that you approve of, of Hitler quotes. Left, left, left, left...
And amusingly, you're perfectly prepared to ignore several highly detailed articles presented by the exact same website because they don't fit into your false narrative that the Nazis were on the left. Like I've been saying all afternoon, you're a lying neo-fascist idiot.
Far-right politics are politics further on the right of the left-right spectrum than the standard political right, particularly in terms of extreme nationalism,[1][2] nativist ideologies, and authoritarian tendencies.[3]
The term is often used to describe Nazism,[4] neo-Nazism, fascism, neo-fascism and other ideologies or organizations that feature ultranationalist, chauvinist, xenophobic, racist, anti-communist or reactionary views.[5]
Indeed, but it will be a temporary win. His Communist overlords are well known for killing their own when they are no longer useful, and sometimes for no reason at all.
As a student, I can't deny that I hate homework and complain about it a lot. However, it is beneficial to the learning process. It means that you have time to actually learn/revise what you were told in class. Without homework, I probably wouldn't be able to say I've done any revision to be honest.