TeacherLaughs: A Jollytologist Book: Quips, Quotes, and Anecdotes about the Classroom

by Allen Klein

TeacherLaughs is filled with hilarious and witty anecdotes about teaching and learning from the preschool classroom to the college lecture hall. These selections from comedians and notable personalities including Milton Berle, Ellen Degeneres, and Robin Williams, as well as less well-known teachers and students, tackle subjects like forgotten homework, students who misbehave, and the dreaded parent-teacher conference.
Award-winning professional speaker and therapeutic humor expert “Mr. Jollytologist” Allen Klein has carefully selected these lighthearted quips, quotes, and anecdotes to keep teachers, parents, and students laughing through it all. This wonderful volume will help teachers maintain patience, compassion, and, most important, a sense of humor, day in and day out, through rewarding moments and less rewarding ones, from homeroom until the dismissal bell.

College professor–someone who talks in other people’s sleep.
Bergen Evans

Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
Fran Lebowitz

When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.
Mark Twain

Genres: Humor

128 pages, Hardcover

First published October 3, 2006

Reviews

[Ronald Spitzer · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is a disappointment. The Zorro cartoon cover sells the book, but it was only one of very few funny examples in the book. The book has truth about student and parent behaviors, but as an experienced teacher I found they were more painful instead of funny. Teachers, don't bother buying this book. Non-teachers, this book gives a non-funny snapshot at what teachers deal with, but the reality is far more and mostly non-funny. This book is not recommended.

[Duane · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great book for teachers that want to just laugh themselves silly. It's simply laid out so you can sit down and spend five minutes or five hours and just read and laugh and feel so much better than you're not the only one who thinks teaching is crazy work. A hilarious book for those who need hilarity in their lives.

[Cortney Valyan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Every teacher needs to read this! It is very funny! I could relate to a lot of it...read this for a chuckle! :)