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The best thing about teaching is....

.....fun lessons (Primary, 2 years)

.....three thirty (Primary (5 years)

.....the children (Primary, 10 years)

(noticeably no answers from the secondary sector here)


The worst thing about teaching is....

......other teachers (Secondary, 26 years)

......wet playtime (Primary, 14 years)

......the daily battering your self-esteem takes (Secondary, 8 years)

......nine am (Primary, 6 years)


The advice I would give to someone at the start of their teaching career is....

.....Don't do it! (Secondary, 30 years)

.....Are you sure? (Primary, 2 years)

.....Pray! (Secondary, 8 years)

.....Have your own children first (Primary, 14 years)

.....Try liking children but never forget their innate evil! (Secondary, 30 years)

.....Retire! (Secondary, 26 years)


After a day in the classroom I feel....

.....shattered (Primary, 10 years)

.....like a G&T (Secondary, 12 years)

.....suicidal (Secondary, 26 years)

.....relieved I haven't been sued yet (Primary, 8 years)

.....the wife (Secondary, 12 years)

.....my way to the mountains of paper waiting for me (Secondary, 25 years)


A good teacher is.....

.....hard to find (Secondary, 5 years)

.....a good listener of things that are not being said (Primary, 1 year)

.....always there (Secondary, 12 years)

.....a dead one (Secondary, 26 years)

.....in most classrooms but never in the Daily Mail (Primary, 6 years)

.....what every pupil wants (Secondary, 16 years)


I think teaching in the 21st Century.....

.....is going to be very unpleasant (Secondary, 8 years)

.....is irrelevant (Secondary, 26 years)

.....will seem like a long time (Secondary 5 years)

.....will involve more paper than children (Secondary, 30 years)

.....should be abolished and replaced with free exploration of the world (Primary, 6 years)


The best advice I ever received as a teacher was.....

.....Never take yourself too seriously (Secondary, 30 years)

.....Rough 'em up at the start of the lesson (Secondary, 5 years)

.....Nil carborundum desperandum (Secondary, 26 years)

.....Join the freemasons and marry a rich woman (Secondary, 30 years)

.....Make best friends with the caretaker (Secondary, 12 years)


Any other witticisms?

  • Don't get too reliant on machines - they always know when things are urgent and essential and then they choose to go wrong! (Primary, 10 years)


  • When passing a class onto the next year group mark any child with a parent on the PTA. Forewarned is forearmed (Primary, 14 years)


  • The best comedy scripts are to be found in school (Secondary, 27 years)


  • Why I have filled in yet another form is beyond me (Primary, 6 years)


  • What do you call 200 OFSTED inspectors at the bottom of the sea? A good start. (Secondary, 30 years)


We hope you enjoy reading this little compilation of witticisms and pondering over life at the chalkface. Please feel free to contact us with any others you think of.

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