crashfrog

I suspect "you'll fail the test if you use break" is more of a joke by your teacher than an actual grading rubric, although if you used it more than twice in the same test I wouldn't award you better than a B.

Is there a benefit to not using breaks or continues?

The benefit is that you learn to write non-branching code. That's important for beginners, who tend to write very complicated and complex code with lots of branching, which they then discover they're not able to test and debug. Barring you from using break and continue forces you to write more abstract code to achieve the same level of function with less complexity, and that's how programmers advance in skill - simpler, more abstract code.

Ultimately it's an effort to kick a crutch out from under you. Whether you think that's appropriate for a teacher is up to you, I guess - I'm inclined to think it is, but many students don't respond well to being challenged.

Is this like how a city where people have lived since 1948, including several generations of people who have never lived anywhere else, is a "refugee camp"?

Russia is a shithole because it threw out all of its Jews. Too bad, they all moved to Brooklyn; our gain and your loss.

Of course the timeframe is wrong, but we did achieve flight exactly as they predict: advancements in materials science that changed the relationship between strength and weight.