This Instagram Account Shares 50 Funny Memes That Might Actually Teach You Something (New Pics)
Interview With Owner
What was your experience like in school? Were you straight-A student, or were you more focused on upholding your reputation as class clown than finishing your homework on time? Regardless of how much you remember from the good (or bad) old days in the classroom, it’s likely that there weren’t many memes involved in the curriculum. If there were, I’m jealous! And if there weren’t, don’t worry. We’ve got you covered with your daily dose of educational memes down below!
We’ve gathered some of the best posts from Educational Memes on Instagram to remind you all that learning and laughing don’t have to be mutually exclusive. So, pandas, enjoy these pics that might take you back to the days of packed lunches, recess and raising your hand when you had a question, and be sure to upvote the ones that make you feel particularly intelligent.
Keep reading to also find a conversation with the creator of this hilarious account, Yashdeep Kanhai, and then if you’re interested in finding even more memes dedicated to living, laughing and learning, you can find Bored Panda’s previous article featuring Educational Memes right here!
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Risky business. People can get killed if caught in possession of foreign content. I just hope they know what they are doing and handing them off safely.
Educational Memes has certainly made its mark on the internet, as the page has over 44k followers on Instagram and over 689k followers on Facebook. With the tagline, “Educate thyself, fam”, Educational Memes takes a contemporary and comedic twist on learning that has clearly resonated with many students of the world. The last time we covered Educational Memes at Bored Panda was about 8 months ago, and the page’s creator Yashdeep Kanhai was kind enough to have a chat with us about how the account started in the first place.
Yashdeep shared that he is a law student who used to work with ‘Dank Meme LLC’. “"[I] managed several meme pages back in 2017-2019 with a collective audience of 10M, I have also been a moderator of the subreddit r/DankMemes," he told Bored Panda.
These experiences led to Yashdeep launching Educational Memes in May of 2017. "I was very passionate about memes, and during that time there were no meme pages related to education," he shared, noting that he used to make countless jokes out of the things he studied. That’s where the idea for this project came from, and it’s only been growing ever since.
Yashdeep shared with Bored Panda previously that the community on Facebook was very active from 2017-2019 and that many devoted fans would send in submissions of their favorite educational memes. However, there has been a slow and steady decline in engagement over time, so now the Instagram account seems to be where most of the action takes place.
It’s not easy running an extremely successful meme account, though. Yashdeep noted that when he first started Educational Memes, he had plenty of time on his hands, so it was no problem running the page. But since becoming a full-time student, he’s had to focus more on his actual education than sharing educational memes online.
I had a friend who was a beekeeper. Honey does not go bad- it can crystallise under certain conditions, but you can make it liquid again by gently heating. There's literally been honey found in 6000 year old tombs that was safe to eat. But at his honey processing plant they had to label everything with an expiration date.
But Yashdeep understands that many of his followers enjoy the educational meme content because the posts are just too relatable. “[The memes] distract them from their busy academic lives. They share [them] with their friends and have a laugh," he told Bored Panda.
"Life gets depressing and boring every now and then, and what's better than to jump on the bed, take out your phone and look at memes after a busy day?”
I'm reminded of non-vaxxers, flat earthers, climate change deniers and other trumpists.
Some Aboriginal Australians apparently assumed they were seeing honest to god dead people returning from the grave, and who can blame them?
This is true! Im Aboriginal Australian. White ochre is the colour of the spirit's and in Sydney in particular they traditionally believe that when you die you get buried standing up, facing the sea. This is so your spirit can walk off to the afterelife to the campfires (horizon, stars) and light theirs. When white man came back over in giant canoes(ships) they thought they were the dead returning. It would be terrifying. Interesting fact, the place where they film Home and Away is a burial ground. Barrenjoey point
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Yeah. Hella wrong fashion for 1492 Edit: Here's some style from the right century at least https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e0-dd3c-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
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I doubt any seafaring person from 1492 will have looked like this. This is a very dandyfied look from 200 years later.... Still, I can imagine that there could have been quite a a shock of seeing any European, wether it had good or bad intentions.
I heard a couple of female Bible translation missionaries describe what it was like to first make contact with an isolated group on Papua New Guinea. Somehow, they managed to communicate that they would like to stay, and the locals took them a site on high ground, which they took be an honor. After much effort learning the local language, the translators finally understood the site was considered appropriate for them because their white skins and blue eyes were taken to mean that the ladies were spirits, and the village burial ground seemed like the best place for them.
When the Spanish arrived in the Americas, local people had never seen a horse before, and had never seen a person ride an animal before ... there's a legend that they thought it was one hideous creature, but I doubt that. I think they were probably smart enough to figure it out. Freaked out by the weird animals, and people riding on animals, no doubt, but not so simple as believing it was some kind of centaur.
I think even Europeans from the 15th century would be freaked out to see someone in 18th-century dress.
You have the fashion abd the dates completely wrong. This fashion would be XVII century related. XVI century would be more like d9b3fcb98d...920d4f.jpg 
Just like Henry the VIII or Carlos V
You missed the brightly colored doublet, lace collar, in silk or satin…that kind of shiny fabric wasn’t in the Americas at this date, so that would have been startling too. And there’s the clothes. The islands were first contacted/invaded. The guy in the shiny pink doublet? He would have worn a). A thin shirt that could be as long as knee length tucked into drawers, then another thicker shirt. Then he might wear “stays”, which is a corset. Over that would come the heavily padded and stiffened doublet itself, and puffy sleeves that might have beautifully lined false sleeves (basically split down their length). But, they were Spaniards! Could have been dazzling gold detailed armor - over short, very padded trousers. It’d scare the daylights out of me now!
Thats scary and probably what my ancestors looked like as Im about 60 percent English and Scottish.
Lakota Wolf - Are you from the USA possibly ! Genetically was it your great great great great grandfather ? If one considers oneself then definitely not genetically Scottish
Well, let's remember that many natives also wore colorful paints on their face and hair...
... and being taught that they were inferior and that their gods were pagan. How many of them died in the hands of a "superior" European culture ?
We were lucky enough to get in touch with Yashdeep for this article as well, so we asked him if there had been any major updates in the world of Educational Memes. “There is a new trend of periodic table element edits currently,” he shared. We also asked Yashdeep if these memes are actually a great way to learn. “Memes are definitely a great way to spread knowledge,” he told Bored Panda. “Students love these memes because they can relate the memes to their academics which helps them remember well.” Perhaps teachers should be incorporating memes into their curriculums?
In fact, Yashdeep shared that he’s an expert in using memes to learn. “Back when I was in school I used to make memes of anything new I learned, that way I remembered it well.” The lessons I remember best from my school days are definitely the ones that had a song or acronym associated with them, so I can totally see how memes would help lessons live on in my memory as well.
And when it comes to the future of Educational Memes, Yashdeep shared that he plans on bringing in more students to work as editors on the page to keep it more active. If you’d like to be a part of the Educational Meme community, be sure to like them on Facebook right here and follow them on Instagram right here!
Before was was was, was was is. When is is is, was was was yet will be will be will be.
According to Tausif Mulla at Scrooge Marketer, using memes for educational purposes is a natural fit, as these images have origins in the world of academia. “The term 'meme' was coined by Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book, The Selfish Gene,” Mulla writes. “A meme is defined as ‘a unit of cultural transmission or imitation.’ The word comes from the Greek 'mimema', meaning imitated. In other words, a meme is typically an image or video with text superimposed over it. The text usually contains some sort of clever pun or play on words. Memes are often designed to be funny, but they can also be used to communicate serious messages.”
Mulla goes on to note some of the benefits of using memes in the classroom. “Memes can be used to introduce a topic in a fun and engaging way,” he writes. “Memes can help students to better remember information. Memes can be used to review or recap a lesson. Memes can be used to encourage creativity and critical thinking. Memes can be used to promote student collaboration. Memes can be used to assess student understanding.” So if you’re an educator, it might be time to get creative and start utilizing memes in your next lesson!
Teacher Sharon Serano actually wrote a piece for the International Society for Technology in Education (or ISTE) explaining how she expertly used memes in her own math classes. “I told [my class] to use one of the many meme-creation tools available to make their original meme. To get the ball rolling, I gave my students a handout with a few examples of math memes that had been published on the internet. Other than that, I didn't give them much direction because I wanted them to figure it out on their own,” Serano explained.
“By the time the due date arrived, I was delighted to find 38 students had turned in more than 100 memes! And I was struck with a revelation: Memes are a great educational device for teachers and students alike to promote clarity, pedagogy and humor,” she continued.
Sorry but this gives serious Nazi vibes like "only traditional, naturalistic and pretty-looking art is valid". Whoever posted this does realise that art like the one below was banned by the Nazis, and the artists persecuted?
Serano explained that she was so proud of her students for their expert memes that she handpicked the best ones and included them all in a video that she posted on her YouTube channel. “The Math Meme Project video became a hit and has been viewed thousands of times by people all over the world, including the U.S., Philippines, Hong Kong, South Africa, Malaysia, Australia, Austria, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Mexico, Canada, India, Honduras, Tunisia, Brazil, Germany, Turkey, Czech Republic, Philippines, Finland, Spain, Qatar, Romania, Begium and Indonesia,” she shared proudly. This viral project has even inspired other teachers to task their students with the same assignment, and apparently, it always yields excellent results.
I don’t know about you pandas, but I’m feeling smarter (and funnier!) already after reading this list! Keep upvoting the pics that actually teach you something or make you feel like a star student, and let us know in the comments what your thoughts are on using memes to educate. Then, if you haven’t checked it out already, you can find Bored Panda’s last article featuring Educational Memes right here!
I wish I could do that with several lakes, clean out the bottom I mean.
A giant slab of stone pressing his head into the steering wheel, in an unending stream of honking, only to be relieved hours later when the emergency personnel pry him away from it. One of the slow witted ones peer closer to his face to ask, "you good, mate?". But mate was in fact, far from good...
I'm glad astrology exists, because people used to write about it 1000's of years ago, and because of that, we can tell where a lot of our mythology comes from. Silver linings.
You don’t actually need to kill Baby Hitler. You just tell him his art is worth his weight in gold (do not downvote I can predict downvotes from my downvote fairy follower, I saw this somewhere else and no one downvoted that one)
Now, don’t be mean to Hubble. Hubble was the one to capture this image which shows the oldest stars and galxies in this universe imagesqtbn...sqpCAU.png 
And if they tried to face forward to get in, they'd go ar*e over tip and still fall into the boat due to the weight of the cylinders.
Wait didn’t Hera get pregnant just by herself without someone else, just to prove to Zeus she’s powerful at all sorts of stuff? And then yeeted the baby off Olympus because it was deformed? I dunno
Note: this post originally had 116 images. It’s been shortened to the top 50 images based on user votes.
5 pics in I totally forgot this was supposed to be educational jokes. I like the sciencey posts too, this one doesn't seem sciencey to me.
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It was good until it went from science to just nasty about recent or current events.
I loved this. Of course now I might need a new phone por la cantidad de bebida que le escupió.
There's something weird going on at the end, I'm just seeing a lot of blank posts with down votes, anyone else?
5 pics in I totally forgot this was supposed to be educational jokes. I like the sciencey posts too, this one doesn't seem sciencey to me.
Load More Replies... It was good until it went from science to just nasty about recent or current events.
I loved this. Of course now I might need a new phone por la cantidad de bebida que le escupió.
There's something weird going on at the end, I'm just seeing a lot of blank posts with down votes, anyone else?
