Discipline Innovator Pillows

'The new headmaster is very easy going. He's had the naughty step fitted with shag pile carpet.'

'Your classroom management techniques work in practice but not in theory. That worries me.'

'Home Schooling'

Mr. Defner's drive-in algebra class was retro cool, controversial and somewhat effective.

On-the-job creativity may go unrewarded an may even create consternation among co-workers.

Technologies and distance classes

"I hate negative numbers, and I'll stop at nothing to avoid them."

'This handheld computer is very useful for teaching. It displays my lesson plan, calander, key files, and an extensive menu of put-downs for hecklers and classroom clowns.'

"I like this Carl, you've come up with more solutions than we have problems."

"I believe that's a Montessori school."

"Today in class we're going to create a physics teacher."

Man at work sees in lounge refrigerator, 'Creative Juices'

'I think and work spectacularly well either inside or outside the box.'

"Why are all of your answers so mechanical?"

'They say my tests are too hard. Maybe I should switch from Essay to Connect-the-Dot.'

'Don't come down until your thirty five.'

'I will now read the results of my experiments in fruit genetics. . .'

Education Plan

'You're being evacuated to a better catchment area.'

'A restaurateur prepares macaroni and sells it as pasta. I want you to do the same for the educational program at your school.'

'I've created hundreds of jobs. Of course, they're all going to be automated.'

'Let's put it this way, your Billy is the only kid in class without his own website,,,'

Student to Miss Belcastro, her history teacher: 'We need some newer history.'

Snakecharming.

Looking inside the internal maze,

"We want him to skip joined-up writing and get straight on to 3D printing."

'A...B...C...D...E...' - Graffiti on classroom wall.

"Does it not gladden the heart to see Lowry adapt so well to our new low overhead policy?"

Pyramid Skiers

"Thank you for coming. The talks were forthright and useful, and provided an excellent climate in which to resolve our remaining differences."

"I wish school was more like TV."

'In which on-line university will you enroll?'

"I asked the parents to get involved more and now they're home-schooling."

'Your student Clara has tested as Talented and Gifted. But only in metal sculpting. You'll need to start incorporating metal sculpting into your daily lesson plans starting...tomorrow.'

'I find the best way to stop students from always talking to each other in class, is to keep asking questions. Then they have nothing to say.'