Mitosis Class

Wait for the Bell

Stop copying and pay attention

Don't wanna go to school

About

High School Comics, comic strips by Claudio Patto (argument) and Rodrigo Chaves (art).

Quotes

Teaching

"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."
Albert Einstein

"If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure."
Bill Gates

"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater."
Gail Godwin

"I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework."
Lily Tomlin as "Edith Ann"

"The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth."
Dan Rather

"In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years."
Jacques Barzun

"If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn't want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher's job."
Donald D. Quinn

"A good teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary."
Thomas Carruthers

"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires."
William Arthur Ward

Who & Why

Who

Rodrigo Chaves is a visual artist and cartoonist. He created the Contratempos Modernos cartoon site, where you can also find the High School Comics strips in Portuguese.

Cláudio Patto is a biologist and teacher. Guess where he gets the ideas to write the script for the High School Comics? But, he warns that any resemblance to reality is a simple coincidence.

Why

Cláudio: well, because the stories are there. It is almost impossible to leave a classroom without an idea. Sometimes it is almost irresistible not to give the joke away even during the lessons…

Rodrigo: we have all been students, so everybody knows their side. But now we’re bringing the teacher’s side of the story.