Monday, February 8, 2010

Home Work

What is the need for homework?

Why the extension of school to home?

Why can’t home be home and school be school? Just like work is work and home is home. Don’t tell me that the reason is that schooling is an inclusive and continuous.
Yes, learning need not be restricted to just schools. Learning is continuous.

Why can’t text books be kept at schools?

Why can’t children be children at home? Why should they be school kids at home?

Why the needs to only learn and compete for exams?

Won’t stopping home works help children be better equipped for life and humanity?
Agreed a mild level of homework is good. But where do you draw the line?

Why? Why? Why?

Why can’t students be asked to learn something new from their parents and share the same with the class?

Don’t you think this is better possible especially when parents are “well qualified”? I think such a set up will also remind parents that they need to devote time to their “contribution to population”. Also in turn would make the world a better place to live as people will be less busy, offices would close earlier, and lights at commercial establishments will go off early lessening pollution /global warming. More and more people would be confined to their house. Lesser people would be on the road on week days, hence lesser crimes and lesser pollution. The world would be a much more beautiful place to live and humans a more interesting race.

Oh! What a Utopian dream?