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You can't say that about everyone. People learn in different ways. Some people learn from repetition, some people are visual or auditory learners, and some people learn faster than others. Assigning homework to a person who picks things up instantly is a waste of time and turns them off to education. Homework for the smart kids is counter-productive.Homework can be a very good way for a student to sit down, think about what they learned, and to apply it on their own to see if they can figure out the challenge. But you have to be willing to put in that effort. Otherwise, you can just copy. You won't learn anything, you'll probably do bad on tests, but you won't have to put in effort on the homework and can continue going around thinking how it's useless and how you know everything already. Up to you.
I disagree. Grunt work is part of life. Being able to do grunt work (work you dislike) is part of learning responsibility. As Einstein said: Success is 5% inspiration, 95% perspiration. It's grunt work + innovation that makes for success. Very few people succeed because they are smart alone. Most successful people will tell you they work very hard to get what they have.
I believe that was said by Thomas Edison. And only a genius would say something like that. Being a janitor is also 99% perspiration, but any idiot can clean up vomit. Not everyone is capable of doing the 1% intuitive thinking it takes to invent a light bulb. Making those people clean up vomit would be a waste of genius.
Grunt work is a bad thing and doesn't have to be a part of everyone's life in modern times. Edison wasn't inventing because he had to, he had a passion for it. In fact, in early life he got fired from his telegraph operator job because of this experimentation. Imagine how different things would be in the world if Edison's boss had taught him the importance of grunt work instead of firing him?
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