TEACHER: Where is South America?
PUPIL: I don’t know.
TEACHER: Where is Greenland?
PUPIL: I don’t know.
TEACHER: Where is Bulgaria?
PUPIL: I don’t know.
TEACHER: Look them up in your textbook.
PUPIL: I don’t know where that is, either.

TEACHER: Tell the class what book you read.
PUPIL: Black Beauty.
TEACHER: And tell the class what it was about.
PUPIL: It was about 120 pages.

TEACHER: Why are you holding your textbook up to the window?
PUPIL: You told me to open it up to the Middle East.

TEACHER: How many books have you read in your lifetime?
PUPIL: I don’t know. I’m not dead yet.

TEACHER: Who is your favorite author?
PUPIL: George Washington.
TEACHER: But George Washington never wrote any books.
PUPIL: You got it.