{"id":35856,"date":"2018-07-01T01:00:11","date_gmt":"2018-07-01T05:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=35856"},"modified":"2018-06-11T09:51:30","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T13:51:30","slug":"qotd-homework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/07\/01\/qotd-homework\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Homework"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Let\u2019s end homework forever \u2014 just end it now \u2014 and open up more daylight hours for life\u2019s inexhaustible succession of microlessons. Knowing how to paddle a canoe, or fix a faucet, or work a cash register, or bake a coffeecake, or comfort someone who is unhappy, is much more important than knowing the names of the six kingdoms of living organisms, or the layers of the atmosphere, even if you\u2019re going to become a naturalist or an atmospheric physicist \u2014 and paddling and faucet-\u00adfixing and cash-\u00adregistering and cake-\u00adbaking and the offering of sympathy, like most memorable proficiencies, happen best when they\u2019re voluntary, after school is out.<\/p>\n<p>Nicholson Baker, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/09\/11\/magazine\/fortress-of-tedium-what-i-learned-as-a-substitute-teacher.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Fortress of Tedium: What I Learned as a Substitute Teacher&#8221;, <em>New York Times Magazine<\/em><\/a>, 2016-09-07.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s end homework forever \u2014 just end it now \u2014 and open up more daylight hours for life\u2019s inexhaustible succession of microlessons. Knowing how to paddle a canoe, or fix a faucet, or work a cash register, or bake a coffeecake, or comfort someone who is unhappy, is much more important than knowing the names [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,79,41],"tags":[374],"class_list":["post-35856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-education","category-quotations","tag-children"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9kk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35857,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35856\/revisions\/35857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}