To the Editor of the "NontH-Ciiwa DAtLY News"
Si—I wish to thank your correspondent "Mater" and also congratulate her, for drawing attention to the amount of homework, meted out to children, attending School in Shanghai, One does not have to do a world tour from the Brook-side Apartments, to reach the particular School 'I have in mind.
Children are given homework out of all proportion to reason and any properly trained tutor must know that ad brain has only a ited power of absorption, and ability to concentrate. The amount of homework children. are expected to get through, makes -one wonder if parents are expected to shoulder the responsibility of probing out the children's difficulties, as it scerne to me, they are not correctly prepared For the work and in many eases do for know precisely wast expected have personal knowledge of children who are s0 conscientious, that they plead with their parents fo permit them to. continue. their homework and T have' seen children struggling with their work {ten o'clock at night, and Mater aptly states stealing out lof bed early in the morning t try: fo pick up the reins of where they lof off the previous evening.
Te'seems to. me, that teachers ive out homework, without. know-{edge of what work has already been given in other subjects. However, this homework question is one which shel he dealt with vigorously, and in my opinion, one hour's home work, well done and thoroughly ynastered, is a far better form. home inst than fogging children's brains to the point of incompetency. Further, "children should be taught at School and not fat home and the old adage—work Well and play well—still holds good. ParER.
Shanghai, Nov. 1.
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