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Comment by Wyoming23

> The main purpose of "problems", and especially of homework, was a show of social submission, designed to persuade the teachers to reveal the next secret.

Of all the weird misunderstandings kids have about the world, this might be the weirdest I've ever heard.

I'm kinda fascinated, do you recall at what age you believed this? What was the context you grew up in (country, culture, school). Do you recall where the seed of this idea got planted?

parent Wyoming23 2 years ago

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