Collective intelligence Quote by Joshua Neik

“Homework is the tradition that lives on despite all other changes in education. Enduring but hardly endearing, it seems inescapable." TEACHING, 2011.”

— Terry Crawford Palardy

But I really feel strongly that our kids do way too much homework. The research is on my side. It's easy to make a…

— Ayelet Waldman

“Some people have a genius for doing nothing and doing it assiduously”

— Anonymous

“The stupidity of one's own colleagues makes life simpler.”

— Stephen King

“Imagine a school where students work so intensely that the world outside the essay or problem or experiment before them seems muffled and far…

— Deborah Kenny

“Sometimes school feels like a rat race. All the lessons. The homework. It feels like a treadmill that I want to get off, because,…

— Annabel Pitcher

“Like it or not, we are constantly forced to juggle tasks and battle unwanted distractions—to truly set ourselves apart, we must learn to be…

— Jocelyn K. Glei

“Each of us has more intelligence than we are trained to use and the part that we get graded on in school doesn’t amount…

— Laurie Nadel

“Homework, classes, running around, and then—bam—nothing but a life of work stretching out before you. No one prepares you for that feeling or even…

— Lish McBride

“In the living system of a school, homework is good, yet too much of it can lead to a downward spiral of student fatigue,…

— Linda Booth Sweeney

“But she was uncomfortable with what the professors called 'participation,' and did not see why it should be part of the final grade; it…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Mostly, it’s a matter of getting other people to do your work for you. Pushing the right idiots into doing the right stupid things…

— Terry Mancour