Wednesday, November 28, 2007
I wonder why so many people hate to do homework !Homework or home-task is a bitter pill to many students.Schools,as a rule,set home-tasks.They are given to make the boy 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 home-tasks some more,some less.It is only a matter of degree.However,bitter it may be,must be some home-task given.Education and mastery of knowledge,is a matter of skill.There are skill subjects and knowledge subjects.Both these catergories require drill and repetition.The teacher,to some extent,drills the student in the class.But in the classroom each individual student cannot expect the same amount of drills as each one may require.So the student will have to do that at home.Home-task need not necessarily be repeating what has been done in the class.It may be more study.The student goes through references and acquires more and better knowledge.The world of knowledge is so wide that the class alone 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 home-task.The school also must see that the student is not overburdened on one day and left free on others.The teachers must see to it that the home-task is distributed throughout the week.Still there are subjects like mathematics or transcription in the lower classes which require daily attention.There are others which can be attended to during the weekend,for example,map making,drawing the diagrams and so on.Simply because there is difficulty for some boys,the home-task cannot be abolished.It cannot be a matter of vote.If some students find it inconvenient at home to do their home-tasks,the school must come to their resue.They must provide some facilities in the school,so that the boys can conveniently attend to their home-task.Boys do not like home-tasks because some of them are too weak to do them.In such cases,the teachers must come willingly forward to help such of those boys,who need help.It is not a question of abolishing the home-task.It is a question of making it sweet and workable to the student.The teachers in their goodness must solve this problem.
AISHA : Can I fly Over The Rainbow Like The Bluebirds?
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