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When I was a kid the situation was clear for me: Homework made me struggle for hours while the drill sergeant act next day would last for mere seconds. So I did the bare minimum that would keep me from getting in serious trouble and accepted punishment for the rest as a good deal.

My own kids are now growing and should show up with homework quite soon. I dread the day.



Haha, yeah, that was the way.

“find three important and powerful quotes from the section with 1–2 sentence analyses of its [sic] significance.”

What to do: hastily read the pages, write down anything that might qualify as a quote and write "It's important because blah blah". Done.




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