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From our first days in school we are carefully instructed in what has been called the “hidden curriculum”: how to do what we’re told and stay out of trouble. There are rewards, both tangible and symbolic, for those who behave properly and penalties for those who don’t. As students, we’re trained to sit still, listen to what the teacher says, run our highlighters across whatever words in the book we’ll be required to commit to memory. Pretty soon, we become less likely to ask (or even wonder) whether what we’re being taught really makes sense. We just want to know whether it’s going to be on the test.

Quote ID: 02935

Author

Alfie Kohn

Source

The Homework Myth

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