Frazz by Jef Mallett for September 04, 2012

AND new books to read!(They were always interesting until the Teachers started ‘assigning’ stuff, why is that?)

I always loved getting new books at school!

Not to mention that each teacher was of the opinion that his/her subject was the most important.

Errr….isn’t that a carton of milk, not a toast?

Thank you, thank you, I’m here all week, try the veal.

How do you feel about eggs? Do wolves, or other predators ask for proof of age?

Actually I don’t eat veal as I do not agree with how the animals are treated to get the proper veal taste and texture. Lamb is also a no go, but only because I do not care for it, as is duckling. Roast suckling pig on the other hand…

Richard, just do the assignment…..

Years ago there was a show called “Paper Chase”, which featured a very stuffed-shirt professor who gave a homework assignment due the very first day. The students were supposed to read the assignment on a bulletin board before the class even started. Maybe this is normal for college academia, I don’t know.

I always felt that homework was the lazy way out for teachers. Let the kids teach themselves at home.

In some schools here, they’re trying something called “reverse homework” where the kids watch an online lecture at home, and then they do the assignment at school. This way if there are any questions, then they have a teacher there to ask. Makes sense to me although my kids aren’t old enough to try it yet, so I don’t know how it works in reality.

Homework is not an add-on to the lectures; rather, the lectures are an add-on to the homework. It’s in actually [i]doing[/i] the problems that students learn, not in seeing someone else do them.Now, if you want to mix things up by doing the lectures at home and the student work at school, or whatever, well, that might work (the idea is still too new to have been extensively studied). But you certainly need to have the students doing work at some time.As for Caulfield, he probably does more homework than any three other students in his class combined. His problem isn’t that he doesn’t do homework; it’s just that he doesn’t do the homework that the teachers assign.

Lots of other people have made good points, so I won’t repeat them.

But there are learning and education. Learning takes place in a very structured environment, e.g. classrooms. Education takes place everywhere, all the time; at least it should.

At young students in my rural PA town, we were always given lots of homework. The teachers knew all our parents; and if the learning part fell a little short, they knew they’d get the education part right.

Teaching. I used to help my wife 2-3 hours a night grading papers and filling out the forms.

AshburnStatium: You left out cabrito.

Baldo did the same joke last week. (sorry)

This is almost exactly the same as a Zits comic last week, with Pierce as the deliverer of a similar punchline.

Same here.

@kroykali – that is pretty much the only way for them to learn – to actually do their homework. There is no way a teacher can just magically put knowledge into their heads in class without them going home and practicing, reading, solving problems by themselves. Yes, you do HAVE to educate yourself as part of the process.

@Robert – so, what, in your mind, prevents a poor kid from doing their homework?

I think what Richard said is hilarious and certainly feels right on. But the business analogy breaks down in that it’s really the teachers who are the employees, getting paid to teach and evaluate, and the kids (or their parents – in college it’s more the kids themselves perhaps) are the employers. That always gave me the impetus to attend classes I was tempted to cut – if I’m paying for it, da**it, I want to get it.

I gave homework in math classes to practice. When I taught social studies (history, geography, economics, etc. culture by culture), homework was whatever they didn’t finish in class, or read a book. If they didn’t have a book from another place, they borrowed from me. This was a middle school in South Central Los Angeles. Some kids didn’t have any place to do homework, so they hung around for a while after school to borrow glue, colors, or other supplies.

Study/education for the student is not a business. It is life.