feb. 10

think about the quote above. what does this mean to you? how could this apply to your life? how could this apply to your school work? i would love to give you less work in class if it meant you were going to focus harder on the work. do you think you would get more out of it? would that work for you? why or why not?

i think this quote is talking about focusing on the quality over the quantity of things. sometimes the benefit is not just equal, but even greater. i agree with this quote - for example, homework. students get assigned so much homework that there is just not enough time to complete it, so they scribble down random answers or google them in order to just get it done, and no more than that. i remember sophomore year when i took philosophy, we were rarely assigned any homework (probably ten assignments for the whole semester), but you could tell almost each and every student including myself put in all the effort they could into those ten assignments. the same goes for sociology. we had just a few assignments, but the majority of students put a lot of effort into it. however, in other classes such as math or english, students are getting assignment multiple assignments every day, so they turn to copying answers from friend or from online. i believe that there is a certain number of things that need to be accomplished (depending on the subject or work it deals with), but for me, in most cases quality rules over quantity.