Life Skills Learners Mugs

"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.'

"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."

University of Hard Knocks

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

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

"Do as many study days as you can."

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

'What did you learn at university today?'

Moral Values for Dummies

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

Secrets of Adulthood.

Smart people learn from experience - other peoples'.

"Does school really help people with real life?"

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

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

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

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

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

He who hesitates is five miles past his exit.

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

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

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

Cosmetics keep men from reading between the lines.

Starting School

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

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

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

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