From Denny: It's that time of year again! Time to spend crazy money on book sacks, back to school clothes or uniforms, shoes and school supplies.
As a parent take some "me" time and decompress with these funny quotes to make you smile. As a teacher these funny quotes just might be thought provoking enough to create a few enjoyable lesson plans to jog those summer brains back to school!
To help you get the kids returning to the back to school mindset with a minimum of stress this is a good article over at About.com offering practical advice.
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Quotes:
If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers. - Edgar W. Howe
Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you. - Erma Bombeck
Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child will be going back to school the next day. It would have been called Independence Day, but that name was already taken. - Bill Dodds
You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in schools. - Anonymous
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. - Lily Tomlin as "Edith Ann"
Often, when I am reading a good book, I stop and thank my teacher. That is, I used to, until she got an unlisted number. - Anonymous
There are three good reasons to be a teacher - June, July, and August. - Anonymous
You learn something every day if you pay attention. - Ray LeBlond If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn't want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher's job. - Donald D. Quinn 
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* * * Support Warriors Pearl Foundation - contributing to fund efforts to help homeless female military veterans come home. Visit Denny Lyon Gifts @ CafePress.com - see what's new! Thanks for your support. You rock! But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret. - President Ronald Reagan Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog. - Doug Larson Schoolteachers are not fully appreciated by parents until it rains all day Saturday. - E. C. McKenzie Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait. - A. Whitney Brown When I got out of high school they retired my jersey, but it was for hygiene and sanitary reasons. - George Carlin The only educational aspect of television is that it puts the repairman’s kids through college. - Joan Welsh What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. - George Bernard Shaw It doesn't make much difference what you study, as long as you don't like it. - Finley Peter Dunne Sign on a High School bulletin board in Dallas: "Free every Monday through Friday knowledge. Bring your own containers." - E. C. McKenzie The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson. - Tom Bodett Education aims to give you a boost up the ladder of knowledge. Too often, it just gives you a cramp on one of its rungs. - Martin H. Fischer Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival. - Henry Ward Beecher You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think. - Elbert Hubbard Education helps you earn more. But not many schoolteachers can prove it. - E. C. McKenzie The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. - Sydney J. Harris 
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A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep. - W.H. Auden
A cross-eyed teacher can keep twice the number of children in order than any other, because the pupils do not know who she's looking at. - Four Hundred Laughs: Or, Fun Without Vulgarity, compiled and edited by John R. Kemble, 1902
Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed. - Robert Gallagher
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain
You can get all A's and still flunk life. - Walker Percy
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. - Albert Einstein
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. - Attributed to both Andy McIntyre and Derek Bok
Education aims to give you a boost up the ladder of knowledge. Too often, it just gives you a cramp on one of its rungs. - Martin H. Fischer
In elementary school, many a true word is spoken in guess. - Henry Youngman Together we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school. - Ivan Illich If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals. - Susan B. Anthony Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. - Mark Twain Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years. - Gracie Allen Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. - Malcolm S. Forbes Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught. - Oscar Wilde 
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* * * Support Warriors Pearl Foundation - contributing to fund efforts to help homeless female military veterans come home. Visit Denny Lyon Gifts @ CafePress.com - see what's new! Thanks for your support. You rock! When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course. - Peter Drucker
Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. - William Haley
Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog. - Doug Larson
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught. - Oscar Wilde, "The Critic as Artist," 1890
Did you know America ranks the lowest in education but the highest in drug use? It's nice to be number one, but we can fix that. All we need to do is start the war on education. If it's anywhere near as successful as our war on drugs, in no time we'll all be hooked on phonics. - Leighann Lord
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course. - Peter Drucker
I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated. - Al McGuire
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. - Daniel J. Boorstin, Democracy and Its Discontents
The founding fathers... provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called education. School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you. - John Updike, The Centaur, 1963
You learn something every day if you pay attention. - Ray LeBlond
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught. - Winston Churchill
Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily. - Thomas Szasz
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. - Alvin Toffler
If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn't want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher's job. - Donald D. Quinn
And the best quote of all that gives the best Life advice: The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. - Alvin Toffler 
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