Life Skills Learners Gifts

"Top marks in most of his exams and he still needs help putting on his underwear properly!"

"Oh indeed I did: I went feral for a year when I was young. It taught me a lot about the world, but about myself too..."

'I did it all from memory.'

Lion Tamers School - Lion licking his lips examiner marking a fail

Teacher has two boxes: "Book Smart" and "Street Smart"

Ed totally blows the final portion of his Chameleon Aptitude test.

'The trouble with education is everyone knows how to teach, but nobody knows how to learn.'

'Dad, can you teach me to swim?' 'Well, I'm not much of a swimmer, but I can teach you to tread water. I do that every day at work.'

Welcome! University of Hard Knocks...Where common sense is better than smarts!

"Thank you for 30 years of teaching service. Now you have 5 minutes to turn in your keys, I.D. card, empty your desk and be escorted out."

A good executive is known by the company he keeps solvent.

University of Hard Knocks

"Do as many study days as you can."

'What did you learn at university today?'

Moral Values for Dummies

"We all make mistakes. That's why pencils have erasers!"

'Remember, Junior, if at first you don't succeed...come up with a good exit strategy.'

Secrets of Adulthood.

"Does school really help people with real life?"

Smart people learn from experience - other peoples'.

'False alarm! I'm back. It was only a career suicide.'

A teenager is bent double under a globe-shaped school bag.

"I'm sorry, Dad. What I did was really stupid, selfish and wrong."

'So, just how long were you at the School of Hard Knocks?'

He who hesitates is five miles past his exit.

'And that one painted and forgot to close the curtains.'

"I've learned so much from my mistakes, I've decided to keep making them!"

"I went with the flow and wound up in the French quarter."

"Remember, Timmy. Anything worth doing is worth having somebody do well."

Cosmetics keep men from reading between the lines.

Just another life lesson son. Nothing in life is free.

"Put that away. Your money's no good here."

"Of course I still do stupid stuff. But now much slower and with far less frequency and zeal."

Starting School

'The problem with being a hermit crab is that I lack social skills...'