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I don't like it and I stop doing it after a couple weeks. Need to avoid that... But I had a Chemistry teacher explain it pretty well. Chem is a very cumulative, and his philosophy was that the second you walk out the door to go home, go to your next class or what haveyou, it all seeps right out of your brain. The homework (which ironically he rarely gave) is to make sure you remember the next time you walk in the door.

My problem with HW is that I think I have better things to do, but really, do I? Half an hour a day (I talk constantly about that extra time a day on my blog) could mean so much for your future, in terms of doing what you want/love and how much you're paid for it.

My view on the homework? It's something like this:

Homework should be there for practise and reenforcement of concepts learned. I think that high school level homework is way off mark - the same amount is assigned to star students who really don't need to do any of it, and the struggling students who should probably be approaching this another way all together. Worse yet are the assignments that are just there to have "something for students to do".

I find that University level "homework" is generally better, mostly because none of it is actually required to be done. A list of relevant problems is provided, but now it's up to a student to decide how much practise is appropriate. I've skipped over questions I knew that I could solve, and I crunched over problem sets well outside of the suggested list for subjects I did not felt comfortable with.

I'm a faithful homework doer. I bust my butt over it, and maybe that's not healthy. But, the way I see it is "a couple more points never hurt anyone". So far in University, I haven't had any busywork. It's always been helpful. I was home schooled my whole life, so I don't know about public high school homework.

I hated homework at school, I either did it in the break/form time before the lesson or not at all. I did do projects though, and they tended to be a bit more intelligent than your typical homework but they also tended to be assigned on top. I basically figured out early on that there was no real reason to do anything that wasn't counted towards exam results.

I did it in college though, for one thing it all counted towards my BSc and I had the sense to do a subject that I think about all day anyway. I did my degree at the type of college that is much maligned the UK and the subject I did is widely considered not a fit topic for three years of study. "Wow, they have degrees in everything these days" is a typical response. However, I think it served me very well for self-employment and the only thing I envy my Oxford-educated cousin is that he got more assignments! Go figure.

I was never a good student in school when it comes to completing my homework. I would do 10 out of the 20 math questions the teacher gave (because I wasn't smart enough to know how to solve them all) and leave the other 10 for tomorrow.

And when tomorrow comes, the teacher gives another 20, and I can only complete 10. So my math homework snowballs.

But yeah, like oniTony said above, university level homework is so much different, and better. I completed my assignments on time, I did more research and gave more than the lecturers asked for, and for that, I even graduated second in my class.

Perhaps it's not the "homework" that we dread. It's the "subject" :)

I hated homework, but I was religious with doing it: every math problem was solved, and the ones with answers at the back of the book (odds, I think) were solved correctly, every book was read and notes were taken about each chapter, each Spanish exercise was dutifully copied and finished, etc. I was crazy about it because it helped me understand everything we were studying and I always wanted to get an A.

My blood pressure was 140/110 until I graduated. Now it's a healthy 90/60.

Thanks for the responses. I plan to include a lot of them in my write up. Please keep them coming. I would be especially interested to find anybody pro-homework, since those opinions are harder to find.

@ErinR: You're me. I hate the homework but do it all anyways. Not because my teachers make me. Not because my parents make. No, because I always want the A+ and I feel the world will crash down upon me if I don't do something. I can't not do anything... including trivial, ungraded things. Something in me just makes me feel wrong for not doing something on my to-do list... whether it be for a client, for school, or for myself. (P.S.: Yup, it's odds that have answers)

I agree with what Toni said. One problem I have with homework (especially a class like Accounting) is that it seems under me. If I've already mastered a technique or method, why should I drill it because others haven't? I've always excelled at Math/Science stuff, but I never really show that when the final mark comes in. Not doing HW has instilled bad study habits I guess.

The ironic part is, I was going to just shut up and do it this year, but I got an easy semester. I guess it's bad habits ahead until I get a really hard one come February :\

Some subjects are very cummulative like foreign languages or some forms of math so if you don't understand or master initial material, all the rest will make no sense or be increasingly difficult and then impossible. In a perfect world, the teacher (in grades 1-12) would test (non-counting for a grade) the very first day and instantly know which students know what part of the material / curriculum. Then all extra work would be at the student's appropriate level.
In school, I always did my homework in every subject. Certain subjects always came much more easily for me than others, regardless of the teacher. Can folks guess that math and sciences were hard for me?