Sometimes pupils leave me speechless..

[vernon]

and choking back tears of laughter..

My favourite still is:

Pupil: 'Sir, sir sir! I learned a new word in French today!'
Me: 'Really? What was it?'
Pupil: 'Orange, sir.'
Me: 'What does that me?'
Pupil: 'Apple, sir.'

Today a rival for number one spot:

Pupil: Sir, that new science teacher has got lots of creatures at home. He got some like stick insects that begin with 'g'
Me racking my brain: 'Grasshoppers?'
Pupil: 'No. Gerbils'
Me:

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Maybe he's not feeding them

 

[welsh dragon]

Children learn so much at school don't they.

 

[briantrumpet]

Twice in one week I asked pupils what 'melancholy' was. Both were bright (one went on to read medicine at Cambridge), and I liked the logic of their answers, if not the fact that their vocabulary was limited. Each one looked thoughtful: one said "Is it a fruit", and the other said "Is it a vegetable?"

 

[Lanzecki]

They call you Sir? Kudos to you

 

[numbnuts]

Having lived a sheltered childhood I learnt a new language when I started work

 

[Angry Blonde]

Doesnt get any better, i asked my lass what the name of the boat was in titanic, and she was oooh oooh ive watched this millions of times, i know this, what is it again man!

 

[tony111]

We had a cross-eyed teacher...........he couldn't control his pupils.

 

[Tim Hall]

I reckon I learned more from my parents than I did at school.

We learned more from a three minute record than we ever learned in school.

 

[Ern1e]

Children learn so much at school don't they.

Yes they do BUT not what they should be learning lol.

 

[RAYMOND]

Ask them anything about playstation and xbox though and there whizkids...
too much time indoors and not enough in the fresh air

 

[Ern1e]

Ask them anything about playstation and xbox though and there whizkids...
too much time indoors and not enough in the fresh air

Not only that but if you look at most of the milatry equipment these days they seem to use the very controlers the kids do ! kinda makes one think perhaps.

 

[Brandane]

[QUOTE 3283326, member: 76"]To be fair to the pupil involved, maybe he didn't understand the question. Should that read 'What does that mean?' If it should then with teachers who can't even spell short words they are hopelessly screwed. If it shouldn't read 'What does that mean?' then they are screwed because their teachers don't make any sense.

Tsk, teachers nowadays eh [/QUOTE]
Shouldn't the thread title be "LEAVE" me speechless, rather than "lead"?

3 out of 10, must try harder Vernon!

 

[Profpointy]

I blame the teachers :-)

 

[Peteaud]

Doesnt get any better, i asked my lass what the name of the boat was in titanic, and she was oooh oooh ive watched this millions of times, i know this, what is it again man!

Not going off topic, but did you know the Titanic was in fact so well built, it still has water in the swimming pool.