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thewaether
@thewaether

I am extremely anti-homework, you know. like I genuinely believe homework convinced generations of kids that if they can't do something in one night, after a hard school day, on a strict time limit, and without breaks, then they can't do it at all


gwenverbsnouns
@gwenverbsnouns

not to mention rigid grading schemes. imo even when attempts are made to award partial credit, it encourages an all-or-nothing mindset where a thing is right or wrong—and getting halfway there instead of all the way there is a failing

writing assignments try to get around this with structured incremental milestones, but when your rough draft is graded it isn't really a rough draft (not to mention typically only getting one round of feedback, rather than a continuous loop)

I'm not really blaming teachers for this; rigid systems make it easier to increase fairness (less room for favoritism (though it's still a problem)), and they're overworked as it is without having to provide continuous feedback for all their students. it would be different if a teacher had five students instead of thirty

my high school art teacher told me my work was wrong whenever I didn't conform exactly to her expectations of methods and style, and as a result I didn't even really try to do visual art for the next decade


ireneista
@ireneista

and to quantify creativity is to demean and attack it. you cannot move outside the box of somebody else's expectations - in other words, you cannot create anything new - when you are being rewarded or punished based on how well you met those expectations.


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