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Re: UK Teachers: Ban Homework For Kids Under 11 - April 17th 2009, 08:13 AM
I think we need to find a method of teaching where the students actually learn the material, rather than learn how to do good on assignments and tests. I have no idea what that method might be, but I think we need one. In almost all of my classes in high school, I rotely learned the material (through the homework my teachers threw at me), retained it just long enough to pass a test or exam, and then it was in one ear and out the other. I didn't learn very much content in high school, I learned how to beat the system.

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