A BIBLICAL GUIDE TO THE SCHOOL SCENE
From Dr. Steve Wilson
Date: 03-23-94             

*Room Numbers*
         Remove not the ancient landmark.
                                                        (Proverbs XXII, 28)
*Nurse's Room*
         Is there no balm in Gilead?  Is there no physician there?
                                                        (Jeremiah VIII, 22)
*Scheduling*
         My times are in thine hand.
                                                          (Psalms XXXI, 15)
*Hall Passes*
         More to be desired are they than gold.
                                                           (Psalms XIX, 10)
*Excuses for Tardiness*
         I said in my haste, All men are liars.
                                                          (Psalms CXVI, 11)
*Smoking in the Lavatory*
         Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
                                                                 (Job V, 7)
*Dress Code*
         Even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
                                                           (Matthew VI, 29)
*Seating Chart*
         There is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
                                                       (Proverbs XVIII, 24)
*Changes in the Seating Chart*
         He that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
                                                        ((Proverbs XVII, 9)
*Lunch Menus*
         We have here but five loaves and two fishes.
                                                         (Matthew XIII, 17)
*Dismissal*
         And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty
         wind.
                                                               (Acts II, 2)
*Students (as teachers see them)*
         Vain is the help of man.
                                                            (Psalms LX, 11)
*Teachers (as students see them)*
         She came to prove him with hard questions.
                                                             (1 Kings X, 1)
*School Disciplinarian*
         The king of terrors.
                                                            (Job XVIII, 14)
*Guidance Counselor*
         A friend of publicans and sinners.
                                                           (Matthew XI, 19)
*Basketball Coach*
         Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
                                                           (Matthew VI, 27)
*Orchestra Instructor*
         He was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.
                                                           (Genesis IV, 21)
*Chorus Instructor*
         They that carried us away captive required of us a song.
                                                        (Psalms CXXXVII, 3)
*Study Hall*
         Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the
         hands to sleep.
                                                          (Proverbs VI, 10)
*Homework*
         I will not give sleep to mine eyes or slumber to mine eyelids.
                                                         (Psalms CXXXII, 4)
*Tests*
         Study to be quiet and to do your own business.
                                                   (1 Thessalonians IV, 11)
*Report Cards*
         Thou renderest to every man according to his work.
                                                          (Psalms LXII, 12)
*Parent-Teacher Conferences*
         Your fathers, where are they?
                                                           (Zechariah I, 5)
*Graduation*
         Another book was opened, which is the book of life.
                                                        (Revelation XX, 12)


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