Old-school Educator Gifts

'Well, on a pencil that rubber thing is called an eraser, not a delete button.'

How to hand in report to teacher.

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This is a 'text book' it's a bit like a website but printed on paper.

Gen-Next Library

"First they came for the horoscope and the crossword and I did nothing. Then they came for the cartoonists and there was no-one left to satirise it."

'This is a letter opener, from the days before faxes and email. I just sold it online after I listed it as a vintage communication device.'

'I don't like reading on screen, so I'm printing the internet to look at it later.'

"But if I don't learn handwriting, how will I be able to read Grandma's letters?"

"Whatever happened to throwing Frisbees around?"

'My battery is dead. How does it end?'

"Books are tricky. You can't text with a text book and you can't call with a phone book!"

'With government cyber snooping, we must communicate through channels no one would ever suspect...the postal service.'

'It's like listening to the 1950s. You can hear the dentures whistling.'

'That's funny - the computer said we had mail..'

'Oh darling, it is not an ibook, it is only a book.'

"I'm impressed! Junior actually asked to use our old-fashioned dictionary!"

"Get a computer?! Do I look as though I have room in here for a computer?"

"That's not an email, so you don't have to worry about it containing a virus. It's a birthday card from Nana."

'Well, that was when a pretty rock was worth a pretty rock...'

"Actually, I'm sitting here reading a book—just to see if I can still do it."

"It's your Grandpa's version of keeping up with technology...reading the papers online."

'Ms. Worden, please go to the library stacks and bring me a few education journals from the 70s. It seems everything old is new again.'

"When I was your age, we walked three miles through the snow to school, and didn't have laptops on our school supply list."

"Polishing my mouse just doesn't have the same calming effect as sharpening my pencil."

"I liked 'class dismissed' better than 'please log off and exit'."

"We're actually gossiping at a water cooler instead of on social media. Does this make us hipsters?"

'So, it's back to school! I remember when I was your age. . .'

'It's okay if you got a bad grade, son. They don't even teach you in school anymore.'

'All this talk of ABS's and old style MDP's is causing a lot of stress...The partners don't take kindly to change... He still hasn't recovered from us moving his desk nearer to the door!'

"I hate everything with a chip in it that isn't chocolate."

'Dad! Open up to social networking. Stop being so Henry David Thoreau-ish!'

"We have all the latest technologies, but catching them still takes old fashioned footwork."