Creative Learning Gifts

History lesson.

"It's the new way of turning lemons into lemonade."

"I find that they learn better if you make it interesting."

A Puppet Named Juan

"Ya know, 'DUH' can be a very hurtful word."

"Do you want to play doctorate?"

'Williams, we're not used to receiving such excellent ideas as these, so we'd like to tone them down a bit.'

"The leadership team wants a catchy acronym for a new social media app they're calling Functional Applied Relationship Tracker. Any suggestions?"

The Signing of tthe United States Constitution

The Art Student.

"Too bad about old Ainsworth. Published and published, but perished all the same."

"After years of cartoon rejections, Bill stooped to trying a little shameless product placement."

Grad School Parent-Teacher Conference

"Would you like me to annotate that for you?"

"E=MC² Energy=Milk·Coffee²"

Fear/Knowledge

Kid at bus stop to kid: 'Needless to say, I cured my Mom of her home-schooling kick.'

'For your information, I am engaging the energy of change and complexity to create the future I desire.'

My Bookshelf Before the Internet

Library sections; Fiction, non-fiction and do-it-yourself.

"Do you see yourself becoming a movie in five years?"

Eternal Student.

"Bah, I could've written a better dénouement in my sleep."

Teacher pointing to P,Q, on board: "OK class, which letter comes next? Redbeard, you should know this."

"My answers could be right. Your quiz just asked the wrong questions."

"Do me next."

The Map of the human brain

"Russ had a novel published two hours ago and has a children's book coming out in 20 minutes."

The Bookworm

'So you want an advance on your writer's block?'

"According to mom the answers are all in this book!" "Too bad there's no pictures at which to look!"

Accelerated reading. Slowpoke reading,

"There's something weird about Emily. She actually likes school!"

"Meet the embellisher 3-5 pm"

"Teach yourself what you don't know you don't know."