Interviewing a college applicant, the dean of admissions asks, “If you could have a conversation with someone, living or dead, who would it be?”

The student thinks it over, then answers, “The living one.”

When a nosy fourth-grade student wanted the scoop on what two teachers were discussing in private, one of the teachers decided it was time for an impromptu lesson in manners.

“Do you know what ‘minding your own business’ means?”, the teacher asked pointedly.

He didn’t, but a student clear across the room shouted, “I do!”

From Reader’s Digest:

Four students walked in halfway through the American history test my father was giving at the local community college. “Sorry,” they said, “we had a flat tire.”

An understanding man, Dad said that if they could all answer just one question correctly, he would give them each an “A” for the exam. The students agreed. So my father handed each one a piece of paper, placed them in four separate corners and said, “Write down which tire was flat.”

Read in Readers’ Digest:

“I am a first-grade teacher and a new empty nester. One night I was trying out an art project: making a person with simple materials. I took a coat hanger, attached a paper-plate face, put a shirt on the hanger and stuffed it. Then I sat it on the couch to see how it looked.

Later that evening my son walked in the door, home for a surprise visit. Taking one look at my coat-hanger friend sitting on the couch, he said, “Mom, it’s not that bad, is it?”