[Tibbes]

From the article:

Those problem-set hours total almost a whole other working week laid on top of the other academic tasks of attending lectures and reading notes. In college as in grade school, where is the time for deliberate practice?

I can't help but think that this is a case of not seeing the wood for the trees. In a good university problem-sets obey most of the requirements of deliberate practice: they are designed, there is repetition, they are mentally demanding, and they gradually get harder so that you are working at the edge of your abilities.

The remaining requirements of deliberate practice are to do with meta-cognition - i.e. thinking about what you are doing - and that is down to you.

It reminds me of stories my mum (who's a teacher) tells about pupils complaining that they had no time for revision because of the practice exams she set. I mean, what do they think revision is?