50 Homework Quotes That Will Make You Laugh or Will Relate to Your Own Experiences

We can all relate to these homework quotes, so take a few minutes and enjoy the quotes!

Homework is a set of school tasks to be completed outside of classroom time.

Over the course of the last few years, homework has been hotly debated as to whether or not it is an effective way to teach students.

Some of the discussion points are:

• Health and Daily Life – There is no doubt that homework is stressful, and although some homework teaches discipline, too much can have negative mental and emotional effects.
• Effectiveness – For younger kids, homework does not seem to affect their classroom scores, but as children get older, those willing or able to spend more time on homework generally have higher grades.
• Best Use of Resources – Not only is it argued if homework is the best use of a student’s time, but also what type of homework. Busy work discourages students from enjoying school, but effective homework reinforces the lessons taught.

Take a look at these homework quotes to remember just what it felt like to have homework each night.

Best Homework Quotes

Enjoy some of the best quotes about homework.

1. “The most effective way to do it is to do it.” — Amelia Earhart

2. “Be ready. Do your homework; that’s all I can say.” — Julie Andrews

3. “You will never get anywhere if you do not do your homework.” — Jim Rogers

4. “Do your own homework. I can’t overstate the importance of this.” — Steve Eisman

5. “A genius is often a talented person who has simply done all of his homework..” — Thomas A. Edison

6. “I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.” — Lily Tomlin

7. “They have school all day, then homework from six until eleven. There’s no time left to be creative.” — Tom Petty

8. “I tell my daughters, ‘Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.’” — Thomas Friedman

9. “Nothing is more powerful for your future than being a gatherer of good ideas and information. That’s called doing your homework.” — Jim Rohn

10. “The worst thing a kid can say about homework is that it is too hard. The worst thing a kid can say about a game is it’s too easy.” — Henry Jenkins

Funny Homework Quotes to Make You Laugh

As an often-disliked topic, many people have had comedic things to say about homework.

11. “What I like about baseball – there’s no homework!” — Dan Quisenberry

12. “If you attend Miskatonic University, your homework might eat your dog.” — James Pratt

13. “The teacher can always tell when you did your homework on the bus.” — Cynthia Lewis

14. “Inspiration comes in the middle of the night when you should be doing homework.” — Amy Lee

15. “Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs.” — Katherine Applegate

16. “It’s piles and piles of emotional homework forever if you ever want to qualify as a grown-up.” — Mary H.K. Choi

17. “I am learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework – procrastinating and negotiation.” — Bill Watterson

18. “The reason you want your kids to pay attention in school is you haven’t the faintest idea how to do their homework.” — Babs Bell Hajdusiewicz

19. “It’s funny, or tragic, really, how an ordinary act like helping someone with their homework could be the inadvertent trigger for almost a decade of silent suffering.” — Jonathan Tropper

20. “Homework should be a swear word. Every time the teacher says it, they should have to put money in a jar, and then, when there is enough, they need to buy all the kids ice cream.” — Rachel Inbar

Homework Quotes About the Struggle of Homework

For many students, parents of students, and even teachers, homework is very difficult.

21. “Homework’s hard. Especially math.” — Angelina Jolie

22. “I have always felt there should be a balance between homework and family time.” — Annie Lopez

23. “Homework is not an option. My bed is sending out serious nap rays.” — Laurie Halse Anderson

24. “College is about three things: homework, fun, and sleep…but you can only choose two.” — Andy Stern

25. “If the kids haven’t learned the concepts by the time they leave the classroom… homework is pointless.” — Heather Broos

26. “My life is a black hole of boredom and despair. So basically, you have been doing homework.” — Kiersten White

27. “One of life’s most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn’t do our homework, that we are not prepared.” — Merlin Olsen

28. “Every kid goes through puberty, wondering what to do about girls and struggling with homework, and every adult has been through that.” — Tom Holland

29. “Here’s an irony about school: The daily grind of tests, homework, and pressures sometimes blunts rather than stimulates a thirst for knowledge.” — Jerry Spinelli

30. “No kid should be getting three or four hours of homework a night. There’s no breathing time, there’s no family time, there are just extracurriculars and homework and then go to bed.” — Ross W. Greene

Homework Quotes About Education From Famous Teachers

Take a look at these quotes about education from famous and well-known educators.

31. “Education is the ticket to success.” — Jaime Escalante

32. “Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.” — Bill Nye

33. “Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.” — Anne Sullivan

34. “Each time you fail, you have eliminated another wrong option.” — Thomas A. Edison

35. “The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance.” — Benjamin Franklin

36. “Education is useless without the Bible. The Bible was America’s basic textbook in all fields.” — Noah Webster

37. “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” — Albert Einstein

38. “There is little point in teaching anything backwards. The whole object of life, Headmistress, is to go forwards.” — Miss Honey

39. “From no source has this author drawn more conspicuously than from the sacred Scriptures. From all these extracts from the Bible, I make no apology.” — William Holmes McGuffey

40. “In the course of your education, you have always been taught to look for the right answer. But you must also know that in life, sometimes the right answer is that there isn’t one.” — Mr. Feeny

Motivational Homework Quotes

Here are some quotes about homework to motivate you.

41. “We’re doing our homework to make sure we’re prepared.” — Gary Gait

42. “The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.” — John D. Rockefeller

43. “You have got to pay attention, you have got to study, and you have to do your homework.” — Daisy Fuentes

44. “Do your homework and know your facts, but remember it’s passion that persuades.” — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

45. “If people only knew how hard I’ve worked to gain my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all.” — Michelangelo

46. “The more you do your homework, the more you’re free to be intuitive. But you’ve got to put the work in.” — Edward Norton

47. “My parents always taught me that my day job would never make me rich; it’d be my homework.” — Daymond John

48. “I’m not a good musician, but I did my homework, and I knew this was my way out of profound poverty.” — Haim Saban

49. “It is not that we had any unfair knowledge that other people didn’t have; it is just that we did our homework. People just don’t want to believe that anyone can break away from the crowd and rise above mediocrity.” — Paul Tudor Jones

50. “The tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours. I took my homework up there, my books, I went up there if I was sad, and it just felt very good to be up there among the green leaves and the birds and the sky.” — Jane Goodall

Who Gets Assigned Homework?

Traditionally homework is assigned at all school levels, but the amount and difficulty of homework increases at each grade level.

While children often receive little to no homework in elementary school, they start to receive more in middle school, then regularly receive homework in high school and college.

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