Shakespeare's Insults for Teachers (Shakespeare's Insults)

Book Description
Having a problem with a lazy student? Forget detention--tell him how you really feel: "Your brains are useless, boil'd within thy skull." Tired of your teacher's boring, pointless lectures? Raise your hand and comment that "Your reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search." Full of schoolroom slings, digs, and retorts, Shakespeare's Insults for Teachers is better ammunition than a spitball--and hey, you're learning something!

From the Inside Flap
Having a problem with a lazy student?  Forget detention--tell him how you really feel:  "Your brains are useless, boil'd within thy skull." Tired of your teacher's boring, pointless lectures? Raise your hand and comment that "Your reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff:  you seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search." Full of schoolroom slings, digs, and retorts, Shakespeare's Insults for Teachers is better ammunition than a spitball--and hey, you're learning something!

About the Author
Wayne F. Hill and Cynthia J. Öttchen are Americans studying in Cambridge, England. They are the authors of Shakespeare's Insults, Shakespeare's Insults for Doctors, Shakespeare's Insults for Lawyers, Shakespeare's Insults for the Office and have created the magnetic William's Wit Kit for inventing one's own Shakespearean insults.


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Used to be that what was taught in schools was worthless outside of the curriculum. Those trapped within the academic system, too - either by law, or by choice, or perhaps both - could not properly express feelings toward each other without using choice words not heard in any spelling bee. Now there's a way for students and teachers who have had it with the school system to get back at each other and the board of education by reeling off over 150 wicked but humorous one-liners - all written by William Shakespeare, the best barb-slinger of them all. Even principals and deans can add an acerbic edge to their professional manner or one-up their big-ego colleagues. And when students quote Shakespeare they'll be getting brownie points instead of demerits. Illustrated for those who believe that a picture is worth a thousand insults, Shakespeare's Insults for Teachers has slurs at the ready for students to give to teachers and administrators and vice versa. To make insulting even easier, Hill and Ottchen offer witticisms for students to use as excuses, for teachers to use on report cards, even for teachers to deliver to neglectful parents who set a poor example for their children. Better than Bartlett's, the erudite student and frustrated teacher are both armed with scores of high-quality insults to toss off wherever and whenever the situation arises.


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