Why Homework is Utterly Unnecessary
Why Homework is Utterly Unnecessary
If you were given seven hours per day to accomplish something basic,
something that people are inherently capable of doing; something that
is in human nature and is a very basic part of life, would you not assume
that is sufficient? American schools feel that seven hours per day of highly
structured learning is not enough, hence, they are compelled to extend their
tendrils into the private lives of students. While there are many other
aspects of the American public school system that certainly need to be
improved upon, homework is the most visible and most easily reformed
aspect of the school system.
Prior to entering the school system, between birth and approximately
five years of age, children undergo a stunning change. They go from wholly
instinct driven creatures to beings who have grasped how to communicate
using an alien language (or more than one, depending on what they're exposed
to), how to perform tasks such as playing a game of baseball or riding a
bicycle; they learn concepts such as truth and lying, sharing, and etiquette,
and they are capable of detecting when someone is attempting to fool them
into doing something, and how to do the same if necessary. Some children are
able to create beautiful music at a very young age, such as Mozart. These
children are not forced to memorize quadratic equations, or read dry
stories that hold no relevance or meaning to them, or sit through hour-long
lectures, or write reports about novels they have no desire to read. They
simply utilize their innate curiosity and passion for learning to discover
things on their own and apply them.
Stifling a person's mind by forcing them to engage in dull,
pointless work during their time away from school is not a good thing.
The resources of the mind are much better spent focusing on tasks that a
person enjoys, rather than work that will be forgotten in two weeks. Mark
Twain's novels may not have existed, had he remained in school and focused
on algebra and science rather than creating the characters of Tom Sawyer and
Huckleberry Finn. Harlan Sanders, better known as the Colonel, might never
have had the time to create his recipes for fried chicken if he had spent
his time in a classroom listening to a burnt out teacher who didn't want to
be there in the first place. Claude Monet's beautiful works of art possibly
could never have seen the light of day, had his time been occupied with
writing reports about authors whose works were utterly irrelevant to him.
As the aforementioned examples demonstrate, homework has very little bearing
on what a person is capable of accomplishing.
--By Chance (Overlord_45`)
I totally agreed with this and belive more would like to read it so i figured id paste it here in cosmos for a nice talk about homework : )
add anything ud like
*i got permission from chance to post this up here he wrote it to give to his teacher to try to get out of doing a stupid report*
