What is the most bizzare opinion you have ever heard from a teacher or professor
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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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I had a teacher who claimed that dinosaurs weren't real. She said that people just naturally love patterns so when we find random bones we arrange them into shapes we like. Someone in the class said what about skulls that are just one bone and she ignored it lol.
That was many years ago and it's still stuck in my memory as one of the dumbest things I've ever heard.
Wow that’s wild. The thing that bothers me most about shit like this is that a good teacher would put aside their pride and take it as an opportunity to learn something themselves and show the class how to find out an answer to a question like this. Instead, you’ll always remember her as the dumbass who didn’t know what fossils are.
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I wrote a paper on the origin of the y chromesome in biology class in college and the professor docked me points with the note written in the margins "I don't think humans and papayas have a common ancestor."
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5th grade biology teacher explaining to me why teleportation is bad, referencing that Cronenberg movie with the fly
my 7th grade biology teacher dedicated a lesson to why evolution was false and her base argument was that she never evolved in her entire life, therefore evolution was false.
i suspect that a majority of the students agreed w her.
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I had an intro to sociology prof spend an entire lecture on full blown anti vax conspiracy shit.
Also had a bio prof take 5 during an anatomy lecture to give a teary eyed plea for the young women in class to not ruin one of the 'fundamental joys of motherhood' by getting their nipples pierced.
30 seconds of googling shows me that women can still breastfeed with nipple piercings. I would question any of the info he gave me about anatomy.
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I had a teacher during sex ed start yelling about how you gotta work on and please your lady not a “wham bam thank you ma’am”, his words. Now not in 7th grade sex ed it wouldn’t have been so weird. Same teacher had a diabetic fit and started yelling and writing E over and over while grading our tests.
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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.
Maybe he meant there's no such thing in the context of that application?
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5th grade biology teacher explaining to me why teleportation is bad, referencing that Cronenberg movie with the fly
Never seen that movie, but wouldn’t teleportation just kill you from the demolecularzation or whatever?
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Not my story but from my boyfriend. In English class they were supposed to write a review about a movie. He wrote a negative one about The Last Airbender from M. Night Shyamalan.
First she argued that "iceberg" is not an english word (this took place in Germany) and that he should instead use "icy mountain" they had to look it up in a dictionary to convince her otherwise and then she took points away because "why would you write a review about something and not recommend it".English, that language that borrows words from everywhere else?
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Maybe he meant there's no such thing in the context of that application?
Probably! He was a very smart guy (way more formal education in computer science than I), so I've always assumed there was some truth to what he said, but he didn't elaborate further and I didn't like bothering him with unnecessary questions, so I never followed up on the topic despite my confusion.
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I had a teacher who believed that the moon landing was fake.
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My chemistry teacher didn't understand why consumers complain about pesticides, since she claimed you could just rinse them off easily (which isn't entirely accurate). She got cancer shortly after.
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I wrote a paper on the origin of the y chromesome in biology class in college and the professor docked me points with the note written in the margins "I don't think humans and papayas have a common ancestor."
then how do you explain the y in papaya? checkmate professor
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college instructor for Communication 101 went on several unprompted rants about how depression wasn't real because it couldn't be detected with brain scans
even though it, uh, absolutely can? also nobody asked you anyway dude???
I bet this person called themselves a Christian.
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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.
music has things that can be described mathematically in ways that are largely historical, but not axiomatic in a math sense. but if learning music helps you learn math and/or visa versa, power to you.
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Never seen that movie, but wouldn’t teleportation just kill you from the demolecularzation or whatever?
In the movie it did worse: mangle you on reassembly because a fly got in the teleporter with you
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My chemistry teacher didn't understand why consumers complain about pesticides, since she claimed you could just rinse them off easily (which isn't entirely accurate). She got cancer shortly after.
The only agreeable thing here is that sautéed garlic and onions are yummy. The rest is some serious
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5th grade biology teacher explaining to me why teleportation is bad, referencing that Cronenberg movie with the fly
Teachers loved telling you about shit they saw in movies and passing it off as wisdom
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My chemistry teacher didn't understand why consumers complain about pesticides, since she claimed you could just rinse them off easily (which isn't entirely accurate). She got cancer shortly after.
I thought you were talking about college instructors until you mentioned high school... especially because you referred to "women" instead of girls...
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Maslow is overrated.
Is he/it? I have to wonder if this is one of those "The Beatles are overrated" kinds of opinions
