Kids Teach Teachers!

As a teacher, I was always learning from my students. I know that that sounds funny, but it is the truth. Normally, we think that the teachers are teaching the students, but sometimes, it is quite the opposite. Well, here's to the education of teachers. Actor Mark sent these to us. Enjoy!


Kids Are Quick
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TEACHER: Maria, go to the map and find North America.
MARIA: Here it is.
TEACHER: Correct. Now class, who discovered America?
CLASS: Maria.
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TEACHER: John, why are you doing your math multiplication on the floor?
JOHN: You told me to do it without using tables.
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TEACHER: Glenn, how do you spell 'crocodile?'
GLENN: K-R-O-K-O-D-I-A-L'
TEACHER: No, that's wrong
GLENN: Maybe it is wrong, but you asked me how I spell it.
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TEACHER: Donald, what is the chemical formula for water?
DONALD: H I J K L M N O.
TEACHER: What are you talking about?
DONALD: Yesterday you said it's H to O.
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TEACHER: Winnie, name one important thing we have today that we didn't have ten years ago.
WINNIE: Me!
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TEACHER: Glen, why do you always get so dirty?
GLEN: Well, I'm a lot closer to the ground than you are.
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TEACHER: Millie, give me a sentence starting with 'I.'
MILLIE: I is..
TEACHER: No, Millie... Always say, 'I am.'
MILLIE: All right... 'I am the ninth letter of the alphabet.'
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TEACHER: George Washington not only chopped down his father's cherry tree, but also admitted it. Now, Louie, do you know why his father didn't punish him?
LOUIS: Because George still had the axe in his hand.
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TEACHER: Now, Simon, tell me frankly, do you say prayers before eating?
SIMON: No sir, I don't have to, my Mom is a good cook.
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TEACHER: Clyde , your composition on 'My Dog' is exactly the same as your brother's. Did you copy his?
CLYDE : No, sir. It's the same dog.
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TEACHER: Harold, what do you call a person who keeps on talking when people are no longer interested?
HAROLD: A teacher
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PASS IT AROUND AND MAKE SOMEONE LAUGH!
LAUGHTER IS THE BEST TONIC.

Do you have any funny school stories? I have many, but perhaps one of my most favorites involved a young fellow in my class, who had taken the French Regents. He showed up at my door to inquire whether he had passed or not and wanted to know the answer to one particular question, that had stumped him completely. To accommodate his need to know the answer, I pulled out his Regents exam for him to peruse and he found very quickly the question, that he wanted to know the answer to.

He had chosen the wrong answer and wanted to know what the actual answer was. It involved being optimiste and pessimiste and he wondered what they meant. Well, if you don't know the definition in English, then the French wasn't going to come to you in a bolt of lightening. When the words are similar in spelling and definition, then you have a cognate, as I briefly explained to him.

To demonstrate the meaning of an optimist and pessimist, my teacher friend, Ginni and I explained that if you are an optimist, you see the glass half full. If you are a pessimist, then you see the glass halt empty. Thinking we had given a fairly good explanation about the difference, our young man piped up and said, "What difference does it make as long as there is enough water to drink?" Well, I do believe he had quite the point to make in saying that. So much for being an optimistic and/or pessimistic person. If you have enough of what ever you need, all is well. Can't argue with that reasoning.

So, teacher that I am, had a chuckle that day and learned what difference does it make in life as long as you have enough.

May you have everything you need in life.