We’ve all had unhelpful teachers before, which is why this meme is just so damn loveable.
Tag: education
Read how other classes could have been useful over at the Oatmeal.
Sure, we need to protect our children from violence and perverts, but banning all cameras from school and preventing them from touching each other aren’t reasonable solutions. Read about more stupid security measures over at Cracked.
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Daily Goodness
Quote of the Day:
“A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.†-Herbert Read
Fact of the Day:
Mr. Clean’s first name is Veritably. –Source
Today’s Holiday:
International World Teacher’s Day
Link of the Day:
Bad science lessons in time.
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Teach Kids & Socialize Kitties
Now there are some goals I can get behind. Austin has created a new program where students can read out loud to cats. It helps children learn and feel comfortable reading aloud and it helps socialize cats. One adorable little boy read to the cats and summarized the experience by saying, “They started fighting each other. Big tails and hissing. They don’t appear to be doing it right now. I think they like this book better: ‘Monkey for Sale.’ “
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Baboon Teaching Kitty to Sit
Neatorama posted this first, but it’s so cute I can’t pass it up. National Geographics archieve has this photo and story and it’s so cute and silly.
Photography by Kurt Severin, National Geographic Image Collection
SITTING KITTY
A patient little cat endures lessons in baboonery. According to notes accompanying the photograph—which arrived at the Geographic in 1956 but was never published by the magazine—”Baboon mother tries to make Fluffy sit up like a good monkey baby. But the kitten always falls back on her four legs. It seems like such a hopeless case.” The baboon, named Helen, was an attraction at Ross Allen’s Reptile Institute, a roadside zoo funded in 1929 in Silver Springs, Florida. She may have been a holdover from the days when Tarzan movies were filmed in the region and Allen provided animal actors for visiting Hollywood productions. —Margaret G. Zackowitz
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Quote of the Day
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” – Mark Twain
InventorSpot has a list of four cool video games that are educational as well as fun. I’m not too crazy about most educational video games, but he posted the OG “Oregon Trail” and “Where in The World Is Carmen San Diego.” Where on earth would I have been without those beauties?
Also, he forgot Mavis Beacon…while much of the game was kinda lame, the grocery store conveyor belt game to teach you the number key pad rocked. Seriously, it was awesome.