MURPHY’S LAWS ON EDUCATION/TRAINING

(Author Anonymous)

1. The clock in the instructor's room will be wrong.

2. Disaster will occur when visitors are in the room.

3. A subject interesting to the teacher will will bore the students.

4. The time a teacher takes in explaining is inversely proportional to the

information retained by the students.
Corollary: The time a teacher takes in explaining is inversely proportional
to the attention span of the students.

5. A meetings length will be directly proportional to the boredom the speaker

produces.

6. Students who are doing better are credited with working harder. If children
start doing poorly, the teacher will be blamed.

7. The problem child will be a schol board member's son.

8. When the instructor is late, he will meet the principal in the hall.

9. If the instructor is late, and does not meet the principal, the instructor is late to
the faculty meeting.

10. New students come from schools that do not teach anything.

11. Good students move away.

12. When speaking to the school psychologist, the teacher will say: "weirdo"
rather than "emotionally disturbed".

13. The school board will make a better pay offer before the Teacher's Union
negotiates.

14. Clocks will run more quickly during free time.

15. On a test day, 15% of the class will be absent.