On 02/26/2016 11:38 PM, Carolyn Santo wrote: > Thank you for sharing this! I'll keep it in mind for my 14 year old > son. He is definitely an out-of-the-box type of thinker. 132 IQ, but > doesn't do his homework. . . ugh! > > Happy weekend! > > Carolyn Santo > CO '81 > > On 2/26/2016 8:06 PM, Yosem Companys wrote: >> From: *Amrit Kandel* <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >> >> I'm looking for a Software Engineering student that would be >> interested in submitting an application to The Thiel Fellowship. The >> applicant must be 22 years or under. >> >> I will help with every step of the application. >> >> To learn more about The Thiel Fellowship, please >> visit <http://thielfellowship.org/>http://thielfellowship.org/ >> >> Thanks >> Amrit >> >> > > >
Sorry to go tangential but… If his homework is like *most* homework, it's at least half bureaucratic busy work that just tests whether people follow all the rules of the system and isn't at all the most productive way to spend his time… There's some moves in our society to end the insane trends of so much homework. At the very least, anyone wanting to get their kid to do their homework would have the best start to the discussion by acknowledging the degree of bullshit it includes rather than pretending it's valid top-priority activity. Of course, it depends on the exact case. I went through school getting A's on all my math tests and basically doing zero of the homework. Instead of reflecting my understanding of the subjects, my grades reflected the variations in how much portion of the grade the teachers made homework. Some teachers agreed to count only tests for me and drop the homework portion of the grade as long as it was clear I understood all the lessons and passed all the tests. The best way to actually practice skills is to put them to use on real-world issues that matter, not to just do tedious busy-work. -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected].
