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by thatjamesdude 2120 days ago
Strongly disagree. It's not intrinsic motivation, it's fear of failing. That's a terrible lesson to instill in children.

I do agree that's a useful life skill, but that is really scraping the barrel for reasons why homework works.

The problem there is we can find examples where there is no homework and a functional, thriving society behind it [0]

0: https://www.bbc.com/news/education-37716005