Hay FFR, I need your input

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Originally Posted by GuidoHunter

Support this statement. In all of my classes homework is obligatory not because the professor's a hardass but because if you don't do it, you are completely unprepared for exams. It is, in fact, the biggest source of learning we have.

There are plenty of assignments that are busywork, but I wouldn't think you'd be so poor a debater as to make a blanket statement like that. Any homework that further engages one in the material he or she is learning not only enhances familiarity with the subject but also provides a path of better understanding of it. You know, learning.

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Homework is fine as a study method, done by your own free will to understand material if you need it. But then it's not really "homework," it's studying. What you're arguing in favor of is habitual studying, which is good.

Compulsory homework is completely retarded, especially when your grade heavily depends on it. Being graded on how much busywork you did rather than how well you understand the subject is self-defeating for any system that wants to pass off its purpose as "education."