You see this in school now. Instead of tests and studying everything is a fucking project, everyone has to do some gay presentation. Learning is irrelevant, it's just an opportunity to do arts and crafts and spread away all the responsibility.
They always excuse it with "you'll need to know how to work in groups and manage tasks efficiently for your job." When my adult life has literally been me finding jobs that let me work alone because I cannot stand the inefficiency that most people bring to every fucking task in their life.
My entire education was a long lesson in learning to hate people for how slow and stupid they were, and how many wasteful frills teachers add to tasks to keep me from doing more. From "showing work" to "draw a picture and color in the lines." All of it wasting time.
They do it so that when the kid gets the wrong answer, a reviewer can pin-point why they got it wrong and tell them how to correct it. "You flipped the sign on line 5" is significantly more useful than "you fucked up somewhere, IDK."
It's only a waste of time when you get the correct answer. Which is why I too considered it a waste for many years but first time you have to teach someone else, you get the point quickly. Though... I do doubt most teachers bother checking the work anyway.
I always thought it was to prevent cheating. In my math classes we had the actual answers in the back of the book, so anyone could have copied those. The homework was testing our knowledge of the methods.
You see this in school now. Instead of tests and studying everything is a fucking project, everyone has to do some gay presentation. Learning is irrelevant, it's just an opportunity to do arts and crafts and spread away all the responsibility.
They always excuse it with "you'll need to know how to work in groups and manage tasks efficiently for your job." When my adult life has literally been me finding jobs that let me work alone because I cannot stand the inefficiency that most people bring to every fucking task in their life.
My entire education was a long lesson in learning to hate people for how slow and stupid they were, and how many wasteful frills teachers add to tasks to keep me from doing more. From "showing work" to "draw a picture and color in the lines." All of it wasting time.
They do it so that when the kid gets the wrong answer, a reviewer can pin-point why they got it wrong and tell them how to correct it. "You flipped the sign on line 5" is significantly more useful than "you fucked up somewhere, IDK."
It's only a waste of time when you get the correct answer. Which is why I too considered it a waste for many years but first time you have to teach someone else, you get the point quickly. Though... I do doubt most teachers bother checking the work anyway.
I always thought it was to prevent cheating. In my math classes we had the actual answers in the back of the book, so anyone could have copied those. The homework was testing our knowledge of the methods.
I remember our textbooks having solutions to only even or only odd questions. You'd get assigned from the set without answers as graded work.
Of course PDFs of the teacher's guide with all the solutions weren't hard to come by either.