How beneficial is homework?

[sjsrose]

I'm looking at how beneficial homework is to students. Please let me know your fellings.

[Neilzulu1]

As beneficial as your child wants it to be, they will either absorb it or not bother.

[lafrancaise]

Do you mean students as in university students or just anybody learning such as pupils, adults etc?

[Scylax]

Homework for school pupils is the best (and only?)
way to prepare them for tertiary education, where
self-education is obligatory.

What is actually taught at university is hopelessly
insufficient for the purpose of gaining degrees. It
relies 100% on the student learning for himself. That
is the nature of adulthood.

Taught classes can only start the process of learning;
they cannot finish it. Homework is therefore a good
introduction to being 'grown-up'.