We are being conditioned against learning.

[Peter L]

Thought I'd let you know.

It's called operant conditioning, and we're all subjected to it. What do you do when your dog does a trick you're teaching it? You reward it right? And if it pisses on your couch? You punish it right? What you're doing is shaping the dog's behavior by controlling the consequences of his behavior. If he is punished, he will stop doing whatever he did that made you punish him.



Homework sucks. People hate it; some would rather have a pinecone shoved up their ass. Then again, there are those people - we all know them - who liked to have pinecones up their pooper. When do you get homework? Right after you learn something. You are being punished for learning and are being trained to hate it. Do you like waking up early? Probably not. When do you usually wake up early? For school. This is another type of conditioning, classical conditioning. You are associating being tired (which I doubt you like) with going to school. You don't like being tired and you won't like school.



I'm hoping this was an accident.

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[Swat Runs Train]

Whoever invented homework should have been shot, bad enough you go to school for 7-8 hours, then they want to load you up with another hour or 2 to do at home? I rarely ever did my homework but aced the exams to get 70-80% average in all of my classes, back then I would just go out with friends right after school, go home around 11, eat, shower etc., go to bed, repeat.

[Mr. President]

True the education system is pretty messed up honestly though it may be broke beyond fixing best just to get out with good grades and than take control of you own learning environment.

[Kharnage]

I personally believe homework is helpful at least for me. I use homework to reinforce what I learned in school even though sometimes I don't always understand how to do it.

[Sam]

I completely disagree. In my opinion homework is designed to reinforce and reiterate what you've just been taught, if you don't understand the homework then you haven't grasped the lesson and you need to go over it again.

Also, you get up early for school because schools don't want to instill values that you get up late and finish early. When you enter working life you need to be up even earlier and finish even later in most jobs.

[Swat Runs Train]

I completely disagree. In my opinion homework is designed to reinforce and reiterate what you've just been taught, if you don't understand the homework then you haven't grasped the lesson and you need to go over it again.

Also, you get up early for school because schools don't want to instill values that you get up late and finish early. When you enter working life you need to be up even earlier and finish even later in most jobs.

Not everyone learns by repetition though so for some it is rather useless and a major waste of their time, even an hour a day adds up over the years.

[Techie©]

I completely disagree. In my opinion homework is designed to reinforce and reiterate what you've just been taught, if you don't understand the homework then you haven't grasped the lesson and you need to go over it again.

Also, you get up early for school because schools don't want to instill values that you get up late and finish early. When you enter working life you need to be up even earlier and finish even later in most jobs.

getting up early comes from the very old days,where am assuming- many kids were expected to work straight after into the night,coal mines,cotton mills and so on.
home work like has been said is to make sure the stuff they learn from school is kept within memory,its like exams,which are just there to test what the student can remember from the modules they have learnt.
perhaps its to teach self disapline and independance to.

personaly do not agree with it at all [with home work] because when students get home from school,they shoud be able to carry out home life not get stressed over getting their homework done,it can affect the whole family just from one student.

the local education authorities shoud do some limited trials on how different students are without having home work,and see if it affects their educational level,if so by how much.


also,as for the original theme of the topic,it isnt conditioned learning,
have personaly been going through [bad term,but cant think of another word] conditioned learning on a daily basis for most of life including at home,its called ABA [applied behavioral anaylasis].

[Raain]

I haven't been that of a studygeek myself.
But really try to go to school as long as u possibly can. It will only benefit u later on.
I quit school this year, i tried college but i couldn't find myself learning every single day.

@OP, that statement, whoever wrote it, is so wrong. And i'll quote sam's post:

I completely disagree. In my opinion homework is designed to reinforce and reiterate what you've just been taught, if you don't understand the homework then you haven't grasped the lesson and you need to go over it again.

Also, you get up early for school because schools don't want to instill values that you get up late and finish early. When you enter working life you need to be up even earlier and finish even later in most jobs.

[Mr. President]

tests reinforce what you learned not homework!

[Peter L]

So does homework, but that has nothing to do with what I said in OP.