Compulsory Homework and Class Attendance Are Not Necessary in College Starting in first grade, students are being taught that homework and class attendance are to be the corner nstones of becoming a successful student. This statement surely has a significant truth for students up until high school graduation; structure and some form of discipline are unavoidable for children and adolescents in this range of age. Going in to college, though, the rules are changing. Attending …showed first 75 words of 1604 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1604 total…clip off the students’ wings, hindering them from flying there. If instead, as Swedish universities have discovered, students are given the freedom to choose how they want to achieve their desired knowledge, a positive spin is put on studying, and responsibility is reinforced. Like the mother bird shoves the nestling out of the nest in order to make the young bird fly, this educational system does the same, making students realize that they have wings.