As for assignment that teachers give to students, it can be a big burden to many students at first. When I was a student in middle school and high school, I also liked the teachers who give little assignment everyday. However, in retrospect, the homework that teachers give everyday is not only necessary for perfect knowledge for students, but it serves as forming a good habit of learning for the following reasons.
The saying "Practive makes perfect" is very common all around the world. That is, daily practicing what students have learned in each class is very essential to acquistion of perfect knowledge. Let's take English, for example. When you learn a grammatical rule in language class, it is natural that teachers assign many practices that you have to master until next class. If you do try to learn the grammatical rule that you have learned in class, you will find yourself using the grammatical rule in the speaking and writing after a few days. However, if you do not practice the rule, it is certain that you forget it only after you have learned it due to the human's short term memory capatcity. It is widely known that the knowledge stored in the short term memory lasts only for a few seconds unless you transfer it into long term memory. Consequently, it is known that the best way to turning the information in STM into LTM is practicing the information on a daily basis. Thus, if you try to make use of what you have learned today, it will become yours with only a few practices.
Another advanatge of daily assignment is that it is one of the best ways that forming a good habit of learning such as time organization, planning of study, and specific schedule for exams. For instance, when your teachers assign various homework such as math homework, history homework, and so on, it is certain that you should orgazine the homework first, and then you should make a specific plan. In other words, in the course of doing your daily homework, you acquire how to organize your schedule, and how to allot your time for studying in a given time. To be specific, let's assume that you have only 7 hours to study in a day, but you have to hand in 5 hours English homework and another 5 hours math homework. If it is so, you might have to plan and squeeze the extra time into your time schedule in order to submit the assignment on time and cut off unnecessay activities. In my experience, this kind of time pressure is quite common situation in the real world. Thus, if you try to practice the daily homework in this way, and try to spend time efficiently to do your daily homework, it will pay off in the end in your professional life as well as in your daily school life.
All things considered, it is obvious that daily homework can contribute to gaining perfect knowledge of each subject and forming a good habit of learning that lead to successful orgainztion and plan of schedule. In reality, it is also true that you may feel puzzled or frustrated at the heavy homework at first, and you may feel exhausted many times. However, many teachers also went through the same situation, so they know very well what is more beneficial to students and what is not. Therefore, following your teachers and completing your daily homework will be a sure way to lead your life to a better place. |