At least from what I’ve heard from teachers in certain regions in the US, homework hasn’t been popular these days. It may complicate a wide range of educational practices over quite a long time, but it does not necessarily reflect an absolute decline in standards and expectations. Those of us who attended school at the turn of the millennium may remember feeling buried in homework. This is a fierce version of the generation of the era amid the early pressures of the Cold War on “more science.” However, the late baby boomers and early generations of the 60s and 70s had a much lighter load, as was the case with the generations educated under the John Dewey reforms of the early 20th century.
This line can last forever until the Babylonian era four thousand years ago. in The above video From her channel tibiaScience Youtuber Toby Hendy shows us some artifacts of homework from ancient times and explains how to interpret them.
The simple but numerous marks engraved on a clay tablet reveal that they are examples of mathematical homework. (Even when interpreted in modern languages, the calculations seem unfamiliar and can be performed as they are on base 60 rather than base 10. “New Mathematics” That the Babylonians had a fairly advanced mathematics, and that Hendy demonstrates using his own clay may be as surprising as the fact that they did their homework.
Not all of them did that. Universal schooling itself has only been dated since the industrial era, and for Babylonians, industry has still been a long way to go. But they took a considerable step in creating a civilization, but that was not possible without writing. The ancient missions that Hendy shows would have been performed by students Edvashe describes it as a “scribe school.” Certifieras we know, means the person who writes. In Babylon, it meant someone who wrote in Sumerian. That skill was sent over the network of Edvaor “the house where the tablet died” was usually found in private residences, mathematically with graduates sufficient to run the empire until at least about the sixth century BC. From certain destructive forces, the amount of homework seems to be incapable of protecting civilization forever.
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Based in Seoul Colin marshall Write and broadcasting stationTS about cities, languages, and culture. His projects include the Substack Newsletter Books about cities And the book The Stateless City: Walking through 21st century Los Angeles. Follow him on social networks previously known as Twitter @colinmarshall.
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