Teacher, Be Kind!

I just found this while cleaning up old emails. The list originally appeared in Harper's magazine, so all credit to them; it's this sort of fearless reportage that makes having a free press worthwhile.



The following statements have been banned by an education committee in Beijing:

You are slow and stupid.

The sight of you makes me sick.

Whoever teaches you has the worst of luck.

You are just simply an idiot.

Have your mother take you for a checkup - to test if you are retarded.

You are hopeless and incurable; no medicine can save you.

Sit down, stupid; don't raise your hand unless you know the right answer.

Shut up, I don't want to hear you.

Disgusting and shameless.

You are the worst.

Retard.

Shut up and stop.

Get out of here.

I believe you will have no future.

You are only a wood post with two ears.

You are a stick of elm that will never understand.

Dead fish keep their mouths shut.

Can anything improve your memory?

You don't understand human speech.

Stupid, you just can't learn anything.

You are so stupid you need to check your IQ.

How can you be so lazy, like a pig?

I would have killed myself long ago if I were you.

Each class is worse than before.

You can only fill your stomach and daydream; you can do nothing but eat

and you are hopeless.