We are grown in environment that emphasizes the importance of working (learning) instead of playing. Working has always been associated with positive activity, while playing as bad activity. Nowadays, headmasters in some schools have started to stop giving homework. What are happening? As what I read in an article, there are shifting paradigms now. Homework is now a traditional mindset of parents. The headmasters report a better result in overall student performance when homework is stopped, this particularly proven on secondary grades. While for primary grades, the proof is still inconclusive. However this is an interesting point that playing is now viewed as one source of creativity development for students. Read the article here.