What is your favorite quote from a student?

Question

I taught K and 1 for 13 years and as they say, out of the mouths of babes....

My favorite quote from a student came when she asked me to tie her shoe and I bent down to help her. She asked "Hey Mrs. X, why is your hair so dark way down by your head?"

From one teacher to another, I'd love to her your favs!

Answer 1

I'm not a teacher yet, but at the high school I attend we have a teaching program that puts us in a placement class with a mentor teacher. So far my favorite quote is "It's bad enough I have to live with her, I don't want my sister teaching my class too."

Answer 2

I have taught 8th grade for several years now.  These are some of my favorites...

You can't teach me black history.  You ain't black.

Who won the Revolutionary War?

Canada's not a country is it?

Are you and Ms. Hager married (as in to each other)?

Are we doing anything fun today?

Answer 3

I was teaching 4th grade and my students were making mother's day cards.  Many of my students were concerned with what to draw (in addition to their poems) so I told them that no matter what they drew, their mothers would love it.  

Fast foward 15 minutes.  Joey (really low student who tried his best) drew some kind of enormous dog, then for some reason, but wheels under it.  He then tells Tommy (typically self centered Tommy responds, "It's okay Joey...  Even though it's ugly and it's a dog and it's on wheels, your mom will still love it!"

He said it with the best of intentions and Joey took this as a compliment/vote of confidence and was content with his product.

I had to leave the room and tell another teacher I was laughing so hard :)

Answer 4

Thats Not A Freaking Excuse =P

Answer 5

I couldn't compete with these.

http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search?ei=UTF...

Answer 6

I once watched a programme in the uk about two head teachers that swapped places for a bit.

One head from an average school was chatting to a child in the top private school (child must have been about 8)  and she asked the child what he would like to do when he grew up.

he said

'i want to dig for dinosaur bones'

'ooh that's good, theres a name for that too.  Arch-ae-olo-gist ' she said

'no it's not it's a palaentologist!' said the child and walked off!

I appologise if I have spelt those tricky words wrong, I didn't go to private school!

I also read an artical about a teacher who was checking the reading level of his students.  I know the test well.   You start the test at an appropriate point for the child (they words start easy ang get progressivly harder) If the child gets 10 wrong in a row the test ends.

He said one girl walked in, sat down, glanced at the sheet and said

'do you want me to read all the way down to idiosyncrasy'(don't know if I spelt that right either!)

He said no, she didn't need to do the test!

I love how frank the little ones are.  Like 'miss, I thought you had food on your face but it's ok, its just a really big spot!'

I love it when they try and invite me to their birthday parties too!