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[Louanne Learning]

Maybe it's a generational thing, but I never considered not doing assigned homework.

Same here. I really enjoyed being a student.

 

[GrahamLewis]

Never did any homework nor revision. From my perspective any qualification is just a piece of paper that doesn't prove anything. The actual ability to do something isn't being tested in any way. In my books it's called 'the piece of paper mentality'.

This, real world, mentality towards qualifications allows utterly useless, inept people who can pass an exam to have important jobs and woefully fail at them. Yet walking out that door, rejected because they don't have a piece of paper, is someone with the ability to do the job flawlessly.

Makes you think doesn't it?

If you could learn what you needed to know without doing the homework, kudos to you. Or maybe to your teachers, who apparently did their job well enough with their lectures. But that doesn't mean homework couldn't have enhanced your learning, or helped other students. For me, the homework made my understanding much deeper.

As for "paper qualifications" being useless, I'd like my medical, financial, and legal advisors to have at least rudimentary evidence of qualification. i graduated law school, and can attest that without hours of after-hours reading and so on, I could never have mastered the rudiments. Practice of law is another thing on another level, but law school laid the foundation, and hours of study made that foundation solid.

I have an autistic son, and it was a challenge for me to convince his high school math teachers that he knew math far beyond his grade level, and that it was a waste of everyone's time and sanity for him to be forced to do more homework than a few representative samples to prove his ability and understanding. That said, without math homework, I would never have grasped most of it in my student days. Nor, I think, would most of my son's classmates.

 

[Set2Stun]

I was always an A student, though I never had a knack for the sciences, especially chemistry.

I'm just glad they don't give me homework for my job.

 

[Louanne Learning]

I had way more homework as a teacher than as a student!

 

[Set2Stun]

Surely there must've been some days when you were just like:

 

[Dee-123]

In my experience, in order to become expert at procrastination, one must think about it for a very long time.

 

[Louanne Learning]

It's been such a busy week but I am having a day at home alone today, and trying to get some writing done.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

Sitting on the bed in a house built in 1914. The place is filled with tons of antiques and thingies to look at. Tonight, I have the entire two story house to myself. The hostess will be back tomorrow morning to make breakfast.

 

[Set2Stun]

Jays win !

A deciding game 7 is scheduled for tomorrow. The winner goes on to the World Series.

EXCITED

 

[Rath Darkblade]

Anyway, it's about time to ... watch some nonsense on TV.

Is there ever a time when TV does not show us nonsense?

Not cynical, just curious.

 

[Louanne Learning]

Ooh, after a nice weekend, it turned a little colder today. I may have to put on socks and shoes.

 

[Link the Writer]

Question

Is it better to like a job but hate the people?

Or hate the job but love the people?

And you can only pick one.

 

[Louanne Learning]

Is it better to like a job but hate the people?

Or hate the job but love the people?

By "hate" do you mean they are annoying? I've worked with annoying people, but I don't think I've ever allowed myself to get worked up enough to reach the level of hate. Besides, annoying people can be avoided.

So, it's better to like your job.

 

[Dee-123]

Writers mostly work from home. It's easier just hating yourself

 

[Louanne Learning]

I had the great privilege, though, of spending most of my time in classrooms with young people, and none of them annoyed me, not even the annoying ones.

 

[Homer Potvin]

Question

Is it better to like a job but hate the people?

Or hate the job but love the people?

And you can only pick one.

Definitely the latter, though I find the two things to be inextricable. It could just be my line of work, but in hospitality, the people are the job.

 

[DLC]

 

[Epic_Null]

Maybe it's a generational thing, but I never considered not doing assigned homework. Sometimes I struggled with it, procrastinated about it, but always did it. And so did everyone I knew. Seems like kids who didn't do it, didn't stay around. I'm sure some of it could be deemed make-work, but by far the most seemed sincerely intended to enhance learning. And in my experience it worked

I was the one kid in highschool who tried to *really* do the homework.

It was too much and almost destroyed me.

First time in my life I stopped having extra curiculars. (I had no time for them. The time was filled by homework.)

 

[Homer Potvin]

The actual ability to do something isn't being tested in any way.

No, but earning the piece of paper is a test to see whether a person can follow a set of instructions, stick with a program for a few years, jump through the hoops, and play the game, despite the often absurd nature of the process. As an employer of hundreds people, I can say from experience that that is a vital skill for a prospective employee.

 

[Homer Potvin]

Well, at least Xenforo isn't using AWS. The outage today knocked my company out across multiple platforms. Dead in the fucking water. Mark my words, Skynet is coming for all of us. Not with a bang but a whimper.