MY SCHOOL EXPERIENCES

HUMOUR ADDS
COLOUR TO
TEACHING
HUMOUR is or should be a part of human life.” Laugh your worries away” is a familiar saying. Laughter provides an easy escape route for one’s pent up feelings. For a healthy body and mind it is quite essential as it rejuvenates and fills one with vigor and vitality. It propagates the message of health and joy and energizes one by relieving mental tension.

“Laugh and whole world laughs with you; snore and you sleep alone,” is the saying of Anthony Burgess. Mahatma Gandhi once said,” If I had no sense of humour I would long ago have committed suicide.” For a conductive teaching-learning situation, it is imperative that there should be a place for humour. A ready witted teacher with an abundant sense of humour, is student-friendly, than one who is moody and morose. A lesson taught with humour and more an appeal than one dull and dreary.Humour adds colour to teaching and promotes an innate interest in learning and makes it enjoyable and concrete.



SOME CLASS ROOM JOKES


We come across many incidents providing humor in our class room from the every ordinary to some striking and spontaneous ones. As one who has served the cause of education as a teacher and headmaster for nearly thirty years, I have a first hand knowledge of many. Here below I give sample of a few:


(1)” my little son is too sensitive,” said a mother bringing him to school for the first time. “Don’t worry! We’ll take care of him,” said the teacher .Added the mother,


” If he is naughty please don’t punish him. Just slap the boy next to him. That’ll frighten him and accomplish your purpose”.

(2) The mathematics teacher of third standard teaching the concept of addition and subtraction put a question to a pupil. ”Rasal, if one and one makes two, and two and two makes four, how much does four and four make?” The replay came from Rasal, ”that isn’t fair, sir. You answer the easy ones and leave the difficult one to me!”



(3)During a routine conversation, Kumar told his teacher, “Sir, my brother has trouble with appendicitis”. Teacher quite concerned asked, “Oh! Is he so ill?” Quick came the replay from Aneesh, “no sir, he can’t spell it “

(4) The science teacher during the cause of a lesson posed a question to a student to name any two major inventions that helped man get up in the world. Pat came the reply,” the alarm clock and the escalator, sir”.



(5) A teacher was onc annoyed with a pupil who was in the habit of giving same excuses for applying for leave. once when gave the reason as due to the death of his grand mother, the teacher got wild and asked if he had not applied for leave for the same reason the month before , the pupil calmly replied that on that occasion it was his maternal granny and now it is paternal.



(6) The mathematics teacher was teaching a lesson on the concept of time and distance. At the end of it, he put question to Mohan “A green lorry with a speed of 40 km take 60 minutes to reach a distance; a blue lorry with 35km speed 75 minutes and an yellow lorry with 30km speed 90 minutes . From this what do you understand?” I a flash, came the answer from Mohan,” All the Lorries should be painted green, sir”.


(7)The English teacher taking a lesson on “change of voice,” in functional grammar asked a student to change the voice of the verb in the sentence, “Rama killed Ravana”. The enthusiastic student in a split second repeated the statement of the teacher modulating his voice.


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