What is the most bizzare opinion you have ever heard from a teacher or professor
-
This post did not contain any content.
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.
-
This post did not contain any content.
I told my students to go flux themselves today
-
This post did not contain any content.
"No girl should get to the sixth form without having learned Latin "
Fuck you, Mrs Entwhistle.
-
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.
interesting, do you have any research papers about this?
-
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.
Lol. Pythagoras - considered one of the gods to maths teachers - explicitly talked about the mathematical beauty of music. Where was this person trained?
-
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.
Dude only ever wrote single threaded software, that's his secret sauce to avoir race conditions
-
This post did not contain any content.
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.
-
I agree. It's a loan word from Dutch and after 200 years, it's about time you give it back.
It wasn't a loan. It's ours now.
Stop using it before we make you another state.
-
Lol. Pythagoras - considered one of the gods to maths teachers - explicitly talked about the mathematical beauty of music. Where was this person trained?
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.
-
Dude only ever wrote single threaded software, that's his secret sauce to avoir race conditions
*ne pas avoir
-
This post did not contain any content.
5th grade biology teacher explaining to me why teleportation is bad, referencing that Cronenberg movie with the fly
-
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.
Remember when that stray bullet hit the side of that Honda? That was a clear attack on the american plexiglas industry
-
This post did not contain any content.
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.
-
This post did not contain any content.
History teacher told us that NASA found alien machines on the dark side of the moon.
Midway through his speech he fell asleep in his seated walker, woke up shortly after and then the been rang.
He was neither physically nor mentally fit to be a teacher.
-
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.
Would have been great if the student said "yes but it will increase another fundamental joy, one that lasts longer than the breastfeeding stage of infants"
-
This post did not contain any content.
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.
-
This post did not contain any content.
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???
-
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.
Maslow is overrated.
-
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.”
-
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.
