If it takes a two-hundred-thousand dollar-per-year executive to guide a client, lead an advertising campaign, develop a computer program or help put a corporation back on its feet, then what is the worth of a person who takes your child, guides and develops the campaign to educate her, develop her personality and social skills, put …
A woman attended her 20-year high school reunion. There she encountered her freshman year art teacher. She told the teacher that she had decided to go to college as a result of his inspiration, and that she now was an art professor at a large California university. At the end of the evening, the teacher …
A TEACHER STANDS AND DELIVERS A recent film, called Stand and Deliver, tells the inspiring true story of a computer technician and teacher by the name of Jaime Escalante, who gave up a booming career to become a high school teacher for Garfield High School located in the barrio of East Los Angeles. Escalante taught …
SCHOOL IS FOR PRISONERS One day my four-year-old daughter lined up all of her dolls on the couch in the living room. “What are you doing?” I asked her. “I’m playing school,” she replied. “I’m the teacher and these are my prisoners.”
A FUTILE QUEST TO LEARN A father and his small son were out walking one afternoon when the youngster asked how the electricity went through the wires stretched between the telephone poles. “Don’t know,” said the father. “Never knew much about electricity.” A few blocks farther on the boy asked what caused lightening and thunder. …
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. (source unknown)
STILL CHANGING The children had been closely watching the progress of the caterpillars in their class. Noting that one of the caterpillars was in the chrysalis stage, one youngster turned to his friend and said, “The big one is still changing his clothes.” Sharon Craigh, Honolulu, Hawaii in Teaching K-8, October 1991
THE LOOK Remember “THE LOOK?” All it took was that look and you stopped whatever you were doing. My fourth grade teacher had one of those looks. There were four of us boys who were as thick as thieves and we gave her a hard time all the time. We were always into mischief. All …
CLASSROOM CONSIDERATIONS In “Seeker Sensitivity on Sunday Mornings,” Gary Hardin, pastor of Crossroads Community Baptist Church in Ann Arbor, Michigan, suggests the following practices for the Sunday School leaders who want to meet the needs of all who attend their classes: 1) Provide Bibles; 2) Help seekers make friends with members; 3) Plan social events; …
ADULTEROUS GRASSHOPPERS After completing the study of the stages in the life of a grasshopper, one young boy submitted the following as his written assignment: “First grasshoppers are eggs. Then they get to be bigger and bigger nymphs. Then they go into adultery. He had the egg and nymph stages down pat, but his understanding …
TEACHER & PARENT PACT A wise schoolteacher sends this note to all parents on the first day of school: “If you promise not to believe everything your child says happens at school, I’ll promise not to believe everything he says happens at home.
SERVANT ADMINISTRATOR The fall of the Christian leader is likened to an oil tanker that polluted the shores of Alaska. The Greek term which is translated as “minister” is “hyperetes.” It is also translated as “servant” or as “helper.” Its literal meaning is “the under rower” of a boat. Another Greek word which describes the …
BOTH SIDES OF THE SLIDES Two teachers from different school systems were comparing how cheap their school systems were. One teacher finally won the contest with this statement: “My school system is so cheap they make us write on both sides of our transparency slides.”
TALENT THREAT The exasperated piano teacher who told her unruly student, “If you don’t behave yourself, I’ll tell your parents you have talent!”
WRONG CHEMISTRY Here are ten excellent ways to get thrown out of chemistry lab: 10. Pretend an electron got stuck in your ear, and insist on describing this sound to others in the class. 9. Give a cup of liquid nitrogen to a classmate and ask, “Does this taste funny to you?” 8. Consistently write …
LIMITS OF COMMUNICATION After many years of wanting an automatic-teller card, I finally got one. The first time I used it was at a bank machine in a nearby college town. A student was there when I arrived, and I asked him if he’d like to help me figure out the proper procedure. “Sure,” he …
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KNOWLEDGE & TEACHERS If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it. — Thomas Fuller
REPAIRMAN JESUS My wife and I were quizzing 5-year old Megan about what she had learned in Sunday school that morning. “We learned about fixing things.” she said. “Fixing things? You mean you did crafts.” “No, we learned about fixing things,” she insisted. “It’s in our memory verse. Jesus said, ‘I go to repair a …
EDUCATIONAL INDEPENDENCE The chief end of higher education is not to make man dependent upon teachers but independent of them. — L.D. Haskew
CLASSED DISMISSED The teacher was the only one left in the entire classroom who was even listening, let alone excited, about what he was saying in his extended lecture. The entire class was bored and just waiting for class to end. The teacher made what he considered an intriguing observation, paused for full impact, and …
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