Make a sentence

    Teacher: Amit, make a sentence starting with the letter ‘I’.

    Amit: I is...

    Teacher: No, no, no, don’t say “I is,” you say “I am.”

    Amit: OK, I am the ninth letter of the alphabet.

    Write an essay

    Teacher: Students, you have forty minutes to write an essay on a soccer match.

    (After two minutes)

    Richard: Here’s my paper, sir.

    Teacher: What did you manage to write so quickly?

    Richard: Match called off due to rain.

    The wrong answer

    (In the school, during a mathematics class)

    Teacher: If I were to ask you to add 137 to 73 and then divide the result by two, what do you think you would get?

    Student: The wrong answer, sir.

    Science class

    The teacher of the earth science class was lecturing on map reading.

    After explaining about latitude, longitude, degrees and minutes the teacher asked, “Suppose I asked you to meet me for lunch at 23 degrees, 4 minutes north latitude and 45 degrees, 15 minutes east longitude...?”

    After a confused silence, a voice volunteered, “I guess you’d be eating alone.”