Of Homework and Motivation

This idea occured to me recently while rehearsing for my  bal folk dance lessons. It might seem obvious to some, and in  a way  I've always known this, but never before have I realised this so clearly. Doing homework makes you look forward to school.  More than you would otherwise, at the very least.
That might seem slightly unintuitive, or maybe even controversial to some,  and I myself have always been  someone who eschews doing homework and tries to avoid it any time it as at least remotely possible.
 So, how does this  !looking forward! thing works, you ask.  Quite simply, after you have done your homework, whether explicitly given to you by the teacher, or merely implicit, as in studying the subject covered during a previous lesson, you do want to somehow show off what you have learned. In,Actually, studyin or doing homework is most often quite an uninsipiring, possibly even daunting, chore, that is , for me at least, quite hard to find motivation for. Therefore, if you manage to get past those obstacles, you do want to reap at least some rewards. And if it's not going to be an upcoming exam, it hayou had better have some opportunity to show  anyone willing to observe what you have learned.
Still, unfortunately, that doesn't really make you look forward to doing the homrwork itself,but it can shed  some rays of hope into this otherwise dull task. On the other hand, not doing homework that has been given, gives you extra motivation not to look forward to school,quite possibly even make you not attend at all, because not only you have nothing to show off, you are possibly facing reprimands, or worse.
 My question to you, dear reader, is, what should a homework look like to expliot it's motivational nature. Feel free to post any ideas in the comment section.