Have you ever outsmarted your teacher?

[W8NKA]

I was playing an internet game in the libery, then one of the teachers at my school asked if i was alowed to play it, and gave her the correct awnser: "yes, you are alowed to play games as long as you can get on them on the internet, then she started yelling at me, but then the lieberan came along and backed me up. the teacher didnt apoligise, she just gave me an evil look and stormed.
i was told after lunch that she doesn't like being proven wrong.

 

[Pinstar]

It was college. Logic class. Our final had one mother of a proof to do. In my college, we are given a flat 3 hours to complete our finals, but no teacher ever writes a final to use the whole time and the longest I ever took prior was 1 1/2 hours. This one took me the full three.

I was working down from the top, up from the bottom trying to get the proof to meet cleanly in the middle but I couldn't get the two sides to match.

At the end of the exam, I took it up to my teacher and said "I admit defeat, I can't get this to match. The two sides are off by a ~. I'll take the points off, but tell me what was I doing wrong?"

My teacher read over my proof for a moment, looked me in the eye and went "Baaaa"

Now this was not the response I was expecting, so I just gave her a puzzled look. She clarified "I'm feeling very sheepish."

She then put a '~' at the start of the problem "I left that out by mistake"

So she threw out the question and gave me extra credit for having found the mistake.

 

[Dexiro]

Wouldn't call it "outsmarting" but occasionally i correct teachers, and they've always been happy to admit the mistake.

Though i did have one completely crazy teacher who didn't have a damn clue what she was doing, she was easily outsmarted because she always spoke utter bullshit.

Oh and my English teacher had a few slips that she wouldn't admit to. When being told to analyze something she'd randomly pull quotes out of her arse that have nothing to with the story we were analyzing.

 

[LavosPrime]

Aside from countless spelling and grammar corrections across the years, I was apparently the first person to mention to my (well-seasoned) precalculus teacher last year (10th grade) that the Cartesian plane was developed by Descartes. He thought the Cartesians were famous for their maps or something. Most of my teachers have been knowledgeable about their chosen subjects, but I've been correcting teachers about facts beyond their expertise for about eight years now.

 

[Staticous]

I did one very memorable time. In my junior year of high school we had to write an essay of what class we would want to add to the curriculum. I wanted to add a class dealing with word spinning. Not quite the same as a speech class but specifically making things sound good no matter what the subject or audience. I wrote the entire essay just fine and when I got to my conclusion I reiterated my self by saying "Many teenagers, as well as myself would consider this bullshitting. But seeing as how this is inappropriate for a school setting it is better to be known as word spinning, which is what this class would teach."

It was actually a board that graded them not my teacher, she actually sided with me on this one. But anyway, they crossed out the word bullshitting and put their comment on the side as to why they crossed it out. The said, and I quote, "this is inappropriate for a school setting."

Luckily enough they didn't dock me any points for it but i thought it was very ironic. and aggravating.

 

[Da Chi]

I was sleeping in Ninth grade math class. The teacher woke me up and tried to stump me with a math question written on a board. I walked up, solved it, and went back to bed.

 

[dex-dex]

unfortunately i have not stumped teachers that i recall but i have proved in classes that i know too much historical things.
in a college grade class, no one could answer when the first and second world wars started and ended. it also sort made me upset that no one could even answer it correctly. I know it is an esthetics course but come on!

 

[Triscut900]

in fourth grade we where learning about power point
i ended up showing her how to do most of it and she taught it to the class
the kicker

Spoiler

i had never used power point before

 

[Mr. Google]

I have before i wish i remembered what. It was such a huge mistake that people were literally laughing at the teacher too.

 

[MikailCaboose]

I've had a teacher try to tell the class that the color-shading on the physical maps in the classroom actually represented areas of vegetation. Needless to say, he was quite embarrassed when I flat out told him that it was in actuality altitude.

 

[Kryzantine]

Doesn't happen too often in my school. Most of the time it happens, it's usually something completely unrelated to the course or a math teacher in the morning before he's had his coffee botching up a calculation in math team.

However, the one point that a lot of the teachers in my school share is calling telepathy osmosis. And half of them use that exact mixup.

 

[Irradiated Tiger]

It was 4th grade. Spelling test. They gave a definition and you spell the word from a number of words you studied. I wanted to see how much I could get away with so on the word fragment I said "Could you use it in a sentence please?" I think the teacher was half asleep because she gave out the word in the sentence. We all burst out laughing for a good minute or so until we got back to the test.

 

[esperandote]

Many times, I once told a highschool teacher that the algorithm he was teaching us wouldn't work the way he thought under certain circumstances, after some debate we went to the computer lab and actually coded the algorithm and it turned out I was right.

On sixth grade I corrected my teacher because she was telling us the formula to calculate a circle's area.

In universisty on my english class a girl asked the teacher how can she call someone that's always triping and having little accidents like that and I said "clumsy" to wich the teacher responded that she didn't know the word.

 

[TheKagestar]

One time in Secondary school (Equivalent to American High School) I corrected a teacher who though the highest average temperature on a planet was Mercurys average temperature. When it's in fact Venus. I'm such a nerd... >_>

 

[hopeneverdies]

My Freshman Science teacher. Twice.

First time was knowing what the Chemical Symbol for elements stood for, in this case Iron. Iron is Fe and he didn't know why. Well Fe is for ferrous, which means magnetic, which is what iron happens to be. For some reason, the entire class made fun of me.

The other time was about how significant figures are found. Sig figs are the preciseness of digits when dealing with decimals. He tried to teach it as the amount of digits behind the decimal point, which is wrong because you could have 10.0 and .001 and they would both have the same number of significant figures. He tried to tell me I was wrong, but I was using info from AP Chemistry that I learned from academic team. Now tell me, who would you trust more? The word of a freshman science teacher, or the word of a teacher that taught college level science? I didn't get laughed at thankfully.

 

[ScRaT_the_destroyer]

However, the one point that a lot of the teachers in my school share is calling telepathy osmosis. And half of them use that exact mixup.

some of my teachers in my old school do that... only use it for funny as opposed to srs business

 

[Kryzantine]

However, the one point that a lot of the teachers in my school share is calling telepathy osmosis. And half of them use that exact mixup.

some of my teachers in my old school do that... only use it for funny as opposed to srs business

Looking at your quote only made me realize how fucked up my original post was.

Self grammar Nazi FTL.

 

[Mass B]

I practically helped teach my seventh grade and freshman year Early Western Civ classes.