A page of puns about schooling and humor around the subject of education.

School days are the best days of our lives.  That's what the oldies say.

It is an expression used by adults who once yearned to leave school and start work.  Then they realize work is just like school for adults, with all the bullies, swots and other irritations from your schooldays.

To celebrate fond memories of sitting behind a desk all day, and still having to take work home - here is a page of puns on the subject of school.  Plus other stuff to help the time pass until break.

ADD - attentio... whatever
big kid picking on others - bully for you
dolphins enjoy being in a school - go figure

extra-curricular? I don't want extra, I want less
freezing in classrooms - too cool for school
get your flunk on

group of nerds round my desk - it was a swot-team
​​I'm not saying school is boring - I'm stating it
lectures are easy, waking up after can be tricky

owlish teacher is a good tooter
passed on all my exams - didn't seem much point
play-time turned out to be a Shakespeare lesson

recess is a short break from lessons - it should be the other way round
​redundant teacher has no class
riding table like a horse - desk jockey

teacher's lament - another day, another scholar
teacher discussed my need to study - it was largely academic
that kid with all the books, I ignerd him

told me to learn it by rote, fool can't even spell wrote
​witches take hexams

Knowledge is power - the more you know, the more control you have
Scholar and a gentlemen - a decent chap
School of hard knocks - a tough upbringing

​​School of thought - make an opinion sound more important
The three r's - reading, 'riting and 'rithmatic

Bad Teacher - great cameo from Justin Timberlake
Blackboard Jungle 1955
​Bowling for Columbine - Michael Moore documentary

Educating Rita - Julie Walters and Michael Caine 1983
Fatal Subtraction - when math lessons go wrong
​Goodbye, Mr Chips - sentimentality 1939 style

​if - counter culture sixties satire
School Of Rock - redemption of dropout musician - it rocks!

I don't want to be President
Why?
A term lasts four years

​I like skipping.  I skip lessons, skip homework and skip exams

In the old days students would be tutored by monks.  Now they are taught by monkeys.

Teacher: Constantinople is a very long word, how do you spell it?
Johnny: I T

Edwina Curriculum - politician
​Ford Prefect - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Hannibal Lecture - Silence in Class
​​The Three Degrees - singers

Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man - Aristotle
Give me a child at 7 and I will keep him studying for another 14 years - modern education

FailBook - end of term report
Instagram - leave school with no skills, become an influencer
LinkedIn - time to turn that degree into cash

OnlyTeachers - hot teachers make a bit on the side
Reddit - read it, studied it, flunked it
SnapShut - no phones in class

​Swotify - songs to help you study
Tinder - not for Kinders

Another Brick In The Wall - Pink Floyd
Baggy Trousers - Madness
Blackboard (Singing In The Dead Of Night) - Paul McCartney

​I Don't Like Mondays - Boomtown Rats
School's Out - Alice Cooper
​Wonderful World - Sam Cooke - don't know much about history

Here are some words for making up your own school related puns.

​​​academy, breaktime, bully, class, college, curriculum, degree, desk, education, exam, learn, lecture, lesson, headmaster, homework, hooky, flunk, nerd, principal, pupil, recess, revision, scholar, school, study, student, swot, syllabus, teacher, term, tutor, tuition

Thank goodness that's over.

It's all very well sitting still and being lectured to but school and even school pun pages can be a bit of a drag.

In the words of David Bowie - let's throw the homework on the fire and take a car downtown.

Class dismissed.