Word: homework
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Professor King has been watching the test tubes more than the students. My 37 years in a suburban high school indicate that he need not worry about today's pupil becoming a "tired old man" from "a 17-hour day of classwork, school activities and homework" [Feb. 17]. "Day" should read "week." Tired all right, but rarely from study-instead, from boys, girls, telephone, cars, TV, sports, clubs, spastic dancing, slumber parties, clothes, hair grooming, parties, girls, boys...
...those 17-hour-day high school students. Tonight's homework: algebra, study for French test, memorize French dialogue, read a chapter on Molière and answer 16 questions, study for history test, write essay on Brotherhood Week, answer four history essay questions, write ballad for English and composition for Creative Writing. Then I am supposed to have time to work on long-range assignments: reading four books in two weeks, working on a term paper and several compositions. Good grief...
...those who disagreed with him. Established in the front rank of Viet Nam experts, he was heard-if not always heeded-by official Washington, and frequently lectured at the National War College. A difficult and sometimes irascible man, he could not abide experts who did not do their homework, or those who saw the complicated struggle in black and white. He disdained anyone who pontificated about the war without getting to see, as he had so often, "the real, bleeding Viet...
Every school, of course, has its share of youths who loaf their way to a diploma. But in a speech to a conference of the American Chemical Society in Manhattan last week, King contended that the serious student puts in a 17-hour day of classwork, school activities and homework. "No one else in the population works that many hours day after day," he insisted. After four years of this, "Mr. Good Student is no longer Mr. Good Student-he is a tired old man." He has also "been robbed of several years when he should have had time...
...could be called the "production ethic." Sixty-one per cent of the girls who answered the questionnaire spend four or more hours a day on homework, and less than two per cent spend as little as two hours a day studying. Seventy-three per cent reported that they kept up in their assignments as opposed to cramming for the exams. The average grade for the group is between a C-plus and B-minus...