[BigParm]

Everything you learn will be forgotten. You keep with you ideas to look up and refresh on later.

A lecture won’t make you proficient. Doing (homework) makes you proficient.

Is lecture all you need to remember which ideas to look up in future? I think you’ll develop a better understanding of whether you need an idea if you understood it in the first place. For this reason we need to develop proficiency through practice.

And then you need proficiency to achieve success in grading. Grading is feedback that lets you know where you stand relative to other students. And that’s what we use for admissions.

Nobody is becoming proficient from lectures. Students must be proficient.

You either need homework, or teachers can stop wasting everyone’s time yapping and just be there to answer questions for half the class duration.

[twarge]

You're conflating "selfwork" and homework. Doing the work yourself is indeed critical. It's the bit where you take it home when you're exhausted that is perplexing. Why can't we provide the time and space to do the self work at school?

[standardUser]

It sounds extremely limiting to have reading and writing confined to sitting at a desk for a certain hour everyday in crowded room.

[jmprspret]

It really doesn't. What youre indirectly describing is the typical workday of most people.

It's not career limiting to keep your work during.. work. and it isn't education limiting to keep the schoolwork at school.

[standardUser]

Children are not workers, school is not a workday. And essay writing is not something that should be confided to such a stressful and limiting environment.

[iraqmtpizza]

Strawman alert. There is a word which you haven't heard before: schoolwork

[BigParm]

I mean I do agree with doing at school and that’s exactly what I suggested.