Lesson Critic Gifts

"If we're learning about multitasking, why does she need our 'undivided attention?'"

'I'm Jeremy's father. I'm a computer consultant and I'm unemployed.'

"Is there any way I could get a dashboard instead of a report card?"

Toy Shops and Educated Children

"This is a test. This is only a test. IF this had been the real world it'd be your job you'd be fighting for, not a letter of the alphabet."

"What can I say? Second grade just hasn't lived up to the hype."

WELCOME TO KINDERGARTEN! "It was mostly okay, but there's way too much micromanagement!"

'I'm sorry Timmy, but if I keep going for help, you'll never learn to take care of yourself,'

'If all your friends were looting and pillaging, would you do it, too?'

'I wasn't playing hooky -- I was fleeing the deteriorating public school system.'

"One can be against entitlements, and still feel a sense of entitlement."

Go to M.I.T., they said. You'll do great things, they said.

'My father says, these intelligence tests are biased towards the intelligent.'

"They make us learn reading, writing, and arithmetic to prepare us for a world of videotapes, computer terminals and calculators."

'Remind me again, Dad. Why did you want me to get that college degree?'

Cover Design for the Savoy (No. 7)- the Eternal Problem of Youth and Pedantry

'Going to school is NOT an abusive relationship!'

"What did I learn in school today...I learned I don't like school!"

"I won't do the 'What I did on my summer vacation' assignment. I consider it a privacy issue."

'I used to have serfs, but I've found that free-range peasants are more efficient.'

"I don't want your teacher to think a kid with grades this bad....could possibly have a father who could read or write."

"Why do I have to work hard at school? I can buy a degree on the internet!"

'Dad said that experience is the best teacher, so I cut school and went to the video arcade.'

"O.K., here I am in the fourth grade, but is that really what I want to be doing with my life?"

Buddy hadn't learned from the time his tongue got stuck.

"I like our history teacher, but he talks too much about the past."

'We should try harder to behave. We're wearing a rut in this floor.'

"I see you graduated Summa Cum Laude, but then didn't your whole graduating class."

'I want to open a joint account with the riches man in town. . .'

'Once again, you were right only fifty percent of the time. Have you considered a career as a TV weatherman?'

'I would probably do a lot better if you would just teach me stuff I already know.'

'I found it difficult to put down, but I will. It's trite rubbish.'

I hate to do this but you know the high costs of college.

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