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”.
I agree. It’s a loan word from Dutch and after 200 years, it’s about time you give it back.
I’m german I can only offer you Eisberg
That sounds too demanding
It wasn’t a loan. It’s ours now.
Stop using it before we make you another state.
English, that language that borrows words from everywhere else?
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”
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.
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
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 avoid race conditions
*ne pas avoir
Sérieux le correcteur automatique qui as bien choisis son mot pour faire chier là ahah
Our physics teacher and our chemistry teacher had an ongoing civil riff on whether or not electrons exist.
We’d hear 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. This went on for about two weeks.
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.
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.
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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That all women should be in the kitchen and all black people should be slaves again.
Was a very interesting English class from a black woman…
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?
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.
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.
6th grade health teacher told the class that studies show evidence of increased breast cancer risk for those that have had an abortion. This was in a suburban Illinois school.
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
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?
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.
reminds me of my biology teacher who before teaching us evolution explained that she is being forced to teach it against her will so we can pass tests, but that she disagrees with it and that we shouldn’t feel pressured to actually believe evolution … this woman was teaching my AP biology class in senior year of high school, and previously had worked in the medical field and retired as a teacher
obviously Christianity was involved
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.
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. It was clear to me then, even as a teen, that people’s opinions change over time as they themselves change. Party loyalty is bullshit.
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.
