• utopiah@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    OK you can hate HOMEwork and instead do everything at school or work, namely study there, but what genuinely matters for studying is that you DO do the work. You have to do the exercises, over and over again, more and more challenging, otherwise nothing gets through. You only get the “feeling” of understanding without getting the practice.

    Learning without practice is like being a theoretical athlete. Hate homework all you want but learn to love studying by doing.

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      8 hours ago

      You are assuming an ideal case where the homework is challenging enough and meets the student where they’re at. That is quite a rare educational experience IMO. There also has to be the right amount, so that students are working and getting that practice without getting burnt out. More often homework is “busy-work”, or doesn’t go hand in hand with lessons, and there’s way too much of it. I’ve even seen it used as punishment or retribution.

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      9 hours ago

      More importantly, homework teaches responsibility and self-accountability as well as time management. I hated it, I got through school without ever doing it, and I had to learn these things later on to my own detriment. But I had massive problems with authority caused by emotional incest from my mother, so it took a lot of work to re-parent myself into a successful person who could follow rules and realize they were sometimes there to help me.