Homework is an unnecessary burden on today's young. Designed to help students learn more, it creates neurotic adults. Supposed to instill good working habits, it ruins the social lives of those who work the hardest. They are misled by the system into believing that if they get straight A's they will live happily ever after - and here homework is not the sole culprit; the entire educational system is to blame. When these hard workers mature into adulthood, a few will come to realize that what they had been taught in the schools is plainly wrong, and that they should have learned how to have more fun and be more happy. In most cases, it is too late: you can't teach old dogs new tricks, and they often live out the extent of their lives unhappily, or at least not as happily as they could have been had...