Harry investigates: Where did homework come from?

Who created homework?
Not many people know that homework was originally believed to be created as a punishment by Roberto Nevilis from Venice, Italy as a punishment for his lazy students to force them to learn their lesson. But there is no evidence of Roberto’s existence. According to wikipedia, Roberto is an internet myth. 


So if it’s not him…


Then the question remains…


So it's time to go back in time. According to the internet, there is no single inventor of homework because many educators would have created their own mechanism of learning. But not all educators would have been thoroughly documented enough to be able to take credit for the creation of homework - this makes it very hard to trace. But the information I have found leads to one person from Germany, Johann Gottlieb Fichte.

Fichte created a compulsory school system in Germany called Volksschule. He did this because he wanted support for a unified German state which is actually why homework was invented. 


Fichte thought that if students were given work to do at home, that it would help to increase German nationalism and force citizens to give time to their country.


So there you go! It was Fichte all along!

(Sources - Wikipedia and Punch media.)