Home works
Eminent writers give diametrically opposite views on the importance of Home-work in the following way:
- Bray, “Under normal conditions, a reasonable day’s work for a child has been done at the close of the afternoon session and home-work, as it is generally organised, does more harm than good as a rule in this country, except, perhaps from the point of view of examination success”.
- Thring, “Home-lessons render material assistance in the direction of private effort without which self-rebase is impossibility”. “Plenty of occupation is the one secret of a good and healthy moral life.”
- Rybum, “Home-work plays an important part in student’s education. Though it has been the most controversial topic, but it has been adopted by most of die college teachers”.
- Duckworth, “Home-work should be used to enable a pupil leave the school with the ability to use as a means of obtaining knowledge”.
A large number of educationist support home-work time-table. According to them, ” Assignment provides two-fold purposes: (a) an opportunity for accumulating knowledge, (b) knowledge gained at school is to be thoroughly assimilated”.
Merits of Home-work
- The students get the opportunity to work according to their ability.
- The students learn the habit of doing their work systematically.
- It creates the interest in the study of die book other than the text-books.
- It removes the defects of collective teaching.
- Home-work is a complement to the college work. There are certain subjects which can be leant only by regular practice and this can only be done at home.
- It develops a feeling of independent thinking.
- Guardians of the students can judge their wards only by the home-work. It is the source for guardians to know about the ward’s progress.
- It teaches the proper use of library.
Demerits of Home- work
- It keeps the students away from the social life. Student given first place to die home-work and so they are cut-off from the main stream of social life
- The students do hot get time to satisfy their other needs besides education.
- It only serves the purpose of passing the examination.
- Due to the excess of home-work, no time is left for playing and recreation.
- It creates a kind of mental fatigue amongst the students.
- Students do not get the opportunity to help their parents.
“Learning of facts is education,” for good number of people the facts are the description or details about a thing abstract or concrete. In learning of any discipline acquisition of the knowledge of fact is essential. In this connection an educationist of Arizona University, U.S.A., has opined in the words that, “Knowledge of facts is very important in any learning. They may be in the form of description or details. Description tells about any object imparting information about situations is also teaching of facts. Principles are also facts systematized knowledge is based on facts. In our life learning facts, is of basic value. Facts knowledge: The processes is teaching of skills are also facts. We cannot understand any activity if we do not know the facts involved in the activity. The importance of facts to persons may differ from person to person. Students may learn many things, so every fact is not required to be taught the teacher is required to select the useful and important facts”.
According of Prof. M.S. Khan, the process for learning facts can be as under:
(i) The teacher should present the facts.
(ii) The teacher should set certain exercises for the purpose of practice.
(iii) The teacher should give some home-work to further knowledge.
(iv) The teacher should evaluate through a test whether the facts h«ve been learnt or not
(v) On the basis of the test, the teacher should re-teach, present more practice material for class-room practice well as home with practice.
In learning scientifically one is required to acquire a systematised knowledge and a systematic knowledge of needs facts and details which are required to be taught still the knowledge of large number of facts cannot have precedence over the knowledge of few facts pertaining one method for doing a thing. For example, there can be any number of methods, for filing the papers and a person may know all the facts of these methods, but they may be useful, if despite the knowledge of facts, one does not know actual filing. In practice, only one system of filing is enough. One system in which a person is skilled is more useful than knowledge of many systems, if he is not skilled in all the systems. This does not mean we are minimizing the importance of fact learning in Commerce subjects.
Therefore, facts are important in all the activities because it will not be possible to perform a skill if the full facts are not known. If one wants to be an expert salesman, he must know all the facts about the products he wants to sell, the necessary facts about the customer and the facts regarding qualities expected of a good salesman. The fact about facts still remains that some facts may be important for one group of persons, and the same may not be important for another group.
