Do you think that homework should be abolished? Discuss.
Homework is a bitter pill to many a student. Schools, as a rule set home tasks. They are given to make the student work at home. It serves another purpose also. It is to help the student to revise what has been done in the class. All schools set homework for students, some more and some less.
However, bitter as it may be, there must be some home tasks given. Education and mastery of knowledge is a matter of skill. There are subjects to learn a skill and others just to acquire knowledge. Both these groups require drill and repetition and teachers normally do so in classroom. But in the classroom, each individual student cannot expect the same amount of drill as each one may require. So the student will have to do that at home.
Homework need not necessarily be repeating what has been done in the class. The students go through references and acquire more and better knowledge. The world of knowledge is so wide that the teacher cannot bring everything into the grasp of the student. So the student must take up some initiative of his own. This may be one of the purposes of homework.
The school also must see that the student is not overburdened on one day and left free on other days. The teachers must see to it that the work is distributed throughout the week. Still there are subjects like Mathematics in the lower classes which require daily attention. There are others which can be attended to during the weekend, for example, map making and drawing diagram.
Simply because there is difficulty for some students, the homework cannot be abolished. If some students find it inconvenient to do their homework, the school must come to their rescue. They must provide some facilities in school so that the pupils can conveniently attend to their homework.
It is therefore not a question of abolishing the homework. It is a question of making it workable to the student.
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