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What is the most bizzare opinion you have ever heard from a teacher or professor

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    I'm german I can only offer you Eisberg

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    That sounds too demanding

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      Our physics teacher and our chemistry teacher had a pretty friendly ongoing riff on whether or not electrons exist.

      We'd one side of the argument in chemistry and then parrot it to him in Physics, and he'd give us a rebuttal and we'd parrot it back to her in Chemistry.

      Looking back on it, I'm pretty sure they discussed it in the staff room beforehand, but at the time it felt like a real smackdown.

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      Wait, what were the arguments for electrons not existing? And by whom? It's generally accepted that electrons exists and neither of their fields would work if they didn't. You'd have to go really deep down into "well actually, everything is a wave" terretory to even get that idea and even then it doesn't make sense.

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        I have 2 of the same teacher. She was an elderly history teacher and I wished I could say a good one.

        1. She wants to watch a Columbus movie after the exams. We were pretty hyped because watching movies is chill. The movie starts and something graphical happened, she immediately skipped a couple minutes. If you have any understanding of the history of Columbus, you can see how this ends... The next graphical scenes come and go in a quick skip. At one point, Columbus was in America, Columbus did Columbus things and she skipped so far forward that he was back in Spain. And in the end, we "watched" a 2 hrs movie in 30/40 minutes. She asked how we finished the movie so quickly. I know what happened in the movie because I know history but I don't know the movie at all.

        2. It is summer. No Aircon. Big glass windows. In lunch break, people leave to buy 1,5 liter bottles of water for insanely cheap. Everyone! Has! These! Bottles! Everyone is drinking their water in the lunch break. Class starts. Everyone is paying attention and is working. Someone asks "hey, could I go to the toilet, please?". Teacher allows them. Everyone else is reminded that toilets exist and how much water they have drunk. A bunch of people ask one by one if they could go to the toilet and the teacher allows it one by one. At some point, literally everyone who had to visit the toilet but 1 person went to the toilet, and she exclaims "stop asking! Just go when no one is already on the toilet!". The student gets up immediately and walks to the door and before they had the chance of opening the door. She screams "what are you doing?!!??" They respond "I want to go to the toilet." And she screams "don't you know that you have to ask!???". We were very confused.

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          conspiracy theories involving aliens creating mankind, basically Ancient Aliens lore unironically like one in three lectures was talk about the process and how we must vibrate into some higher realm

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          Now, that's cool stuff. Much better than teachers parroting religious stuff.

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            Wait, what were the arguments for electrons not existing? And by whom? It's generally accepted that electrons exists and neither of their fields would work if they didn't. You'd have to go really deep down into "well actually, everything is a wave" terretory to even get that idea and even then it doesn't make sense.

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            Yeah that rings a bell, I think it was something to do with its position being a probability density function rather than anything deterministic that orbital mechanics could offer

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              8th grade Earth Science teacher. I shared a fun little factoid I had just learned: if you’re standing on the North Pole, every direction is south.

              She disagreed and spent like 20 minutes explaining why that was wrong. I didn’t understand most of what she was trying to convey, but I do remember hearing “you can go north but in a southerly direction.”

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                Had a substitute teacher once who thought that the word Hell was a bad word even when referring to the location.

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                  A middle school teacher asked for an analogy about something, I don’t remember what specifically, but I raised my hand and excitedly said “Oh! Like how math can help you understand music and music can help you understand math?”

                  The teacher looked at me like I was a total fool and said “music has absolutely nothing to do with math, how could you possibly think that?”

                  Since I was a snarky little punk, and I knew I was right, I said “have you heard about the circle of fifths? Let me tell you about it” and I proceeded to explain the mathematical beauty of music to the entire class. I even had sheet music in my bag from my piano lessons, so I pulled it out and showed it to everyone to explain the bars, tempo, and time signature, all of which are based on mathematical principles.

                  She was not happy to be proven wrong in front of a class of fifth graders.

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                    I told my students to go flux themselves today

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                      "No girl should get to the sixth form without having learned Latin "

                      Fuck you, Mrs Entwhistle.

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                        Biomedical engineering professor teaching an entire course on how DNA in its natural state is not actually a double helix and that Watson and Crick were wrong. The guy spent decades of his career after getting tenure pushing this crusade of his. It was a great class and I loved it.

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                        interesting, do you have any research papers about this?

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                          A middle school teacher asked for an analogy about something, I don’t remember what specifically, but I raised my hand and excitedly said “Oh! Like how math can help you understand music and music can help you understand math?”

                          The teacher looked at me like I was a total fool and said “music has absolutely nothing to do with math, how could you possibly think that?”

                          Since I was a snarky little punk, and I knew I was right, I said “have you heard about the circle of fifths? Let me tell you about it” and I proceeded to explain the mathematical beauty of music to the entire class. I even had sheet music in my bag from my piano lessons, so I pulled it out and showed it to everyone to explain the bars, tempo, and time signature, all of which are based on mathematical principles.

                          She was not happy to be proven wrong in front of a class of fifth graders.

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                          Lol. Pythagoras - considered one of the gods to maths teachers - explicitly talked about the mathematical beauty of music. Where was this person trained?

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                            Not a teacher, per se, but the senior dev on my old team once said something that left me scratching my head. We were trying to troubleshoot an inconsistent bug in our software, and I said, "Maybe it's a race condition," to which he replied, "There's no such thing."

                            Still trying to figure out what he meant by that.

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                            Dude only ever wrote single threaded software, that's his secret sauce to avoir race conditions

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                              Had a history teacher insiste that people can't live without clothes on. As in, you actually fucking due quickly after getting naked.

                              To be "fair" I think that it was more a case of her being mad that I corrected her "pyramid of needs" than her defending her actual opinion.

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                              • fleppensteijn@feddit.nlF [email protected]

                                I agree. It's a loan word from Dutch and after 200 years, it's about time you give it back.

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                                It wasn't a loan. It's ours now.

                                Stop using it before we make you another state.

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                                  Lol. Pythagoras - considered one of the gods to maths teachers - explicitly talked about the mathematical beauty of music. Where was this person trained?

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                                  Goood question. I hadn’t thought about her in ages, but it’s funny how random memories of her class are coming back now. She was a shitty teacher, she clearly didn’t want to be there.

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                                    Dude only ever wrote single threaded software, that's his secret sauce to avoir race conditions

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                                    *ne pas avoir

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                                      5th grade biology teacher explaining to me why teleportation is bad, referencing that Cronenberg movie with the fly

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                                        I forget if it was on the day or day after, but while the events of 9/11 were unfolding or coming to light I had a social studies teacher claim the plane that crashed in the field was an attack on our agriculture.

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                                        Remember when that stray bullet hit the side of that Honda? That was a clear attack on the american plexiglas industry

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                                          I remember in High School where we were pressured into having to choose a political party for our US Government class.

                                          Yeah I thought the 2-party system was stupid then too and absolutely refused to pick a side.

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