We Are Teachers has a bitter sweet post up about the funny things people say to teachers – with appropriate responses. Here is a sample: The comment: “Johnny NEVER misbehaves/has trouble paying attention/hits other kids/acts out at home. I wonder what you’re doing in the classroom to make that happen.”…
Humor and marketing have a tricky relationship. Many marketers use humor in ways that actually undercut their objectives – people remember the joke but forget the company or the product. Here is an example that caught my interest and which I thought did a nice job of making an impersonal…
A family member – who works in a Texas middle school – forwarded this bit of wit and wisdom to me today. A teacher dies and goes to Heaven. When she gets there, she meets Peter at the pearly white gates. Peter says to her, ‘Welcome to Heaven. Let me…
Why don’t textbook publishers use more humor? Humor frequently plays a critical role in revealing truth and puncturing pomposity. Textbooks should be a path to the truth – and they are frequently so pompous they could bore a narcoleptic sloth to death. As an example the “You Suck at Photoshop”…