Poll: Outsmarting Teacher

[wordsmith]

I often got eyes rolled at me in both my Law and English classes for playing Devils Advocate. I believe that if you hold a view, you should be able to defend it in a reasoned argument. If you can't, you need to re-evaluate.

The best one was whilst looking at Tell Tale Heart, the question of abnormality and being psychopathic came up. "What if we're all meant to be 'psychopaths', and the REST of us are abnormal?"

Seriously, in almost any discussion on morality, the East comes to my aid. More wives? Done. Capital Punishment? Done. Vigilantee action vs the courts? Done.

 

[MrJeeves]

I essentially taught my Computer Programming and Web Design classes last year whilst the teacher lazed away browsing random websites. I had to tell him how to give a web page an image background, and whenever a classmate had trouble, they came to me, rather than him.

It was quite a boost to my ego I tell ya.

 

[Berethond]

. I realise that English was my favourite subject,

if english was your favorite subjuct, don't you think you could've spelled realized right?

It is spelt right, mate. That's how you spell it in British or Australian English.

OT: Most of my teachers in high school were pretty good at what they taught, but I honestly thought I could've done a better job of teaching a web design class in Year 10 then the person paid to do it. I prefer under-the-radar supplemental teaching to the out-in-the-open "smart-arse" approach.

You "spelt" spelled wrong.

 

[Animated Rope]

I was smarter than a few teachers, they possessed the knowledge and experience though.

 

[MDSnowman]

I AM a teacher, and a lot of my colleagues are twits. Does this count?

Seconded, hell sometimes I go a little out of my way to prove to my students that I'm not an idiot. It helps get their attention.

 

[Flos]

My history teacher thinks the founding fathers were actually Christians, when a portion of them were more likely Deists. She would not even entertain the notion. I never 'outsmarted' her, but I found the idea that a teacher not even bothering to research something before excluding it to be tasteless.

Franklin even attended Hellfire Society meetings. .-.

 

[Flos]

. I realise that English was my favourite subject,

if english was your favorite subjuct, don't you think you could've spelled realized right?

It is spelt right, mate. That's how you spell it in British or Australian English.

OT: Most of my teachers in high school were pretty good at what they taught, but I honestly thought I could've done a better job of teaching a web design class in Year 10 then the person paid to do it. I prefer under-the-radar supplemental teaching to the out-in-the-open "smart-arse" approach.

You "spelt" spelled wrong.

"Spelt" is the British past participle of "spell".

 

[Berethond]

. I realise that English was my favourite subject,

if english was your favorite subjuct, don't you think you could've spelled realized right?

It is spelt right, mate. That's how you spell it in British or Australian English.

OT: Most of my teachers in high school were pretty good at what they taught, but I honestly thought I could've done a better job of teaching a web design class in Year 10 then the person paid to do it. I prefer under-the-radar supplemental teaching to the out-in-the-open "smart-arse" approach.

You "spelt" spelled wrong.

"Spelt" is the British past participle of "spell".

...Oh.
That's cool.

 

[Flames66]

. I realise that English was my favourite subject,

if english was your favorite subjuct, don't you think you could've spelled realized right?

It is spelt right, mate. That's how you spell it in British or Australian English.

You "spelt" spelled wrong.

Thats the British and Australian spelling as well.

 

[IamQ]

When I was in 6th grade and my science teacher asked us what time was, and I replied it was a dimension, she just about flipped shit. And, despite what she said in her ignorance (that time wasn't a dimension, just a measurement), time still is a dimension.

Isn't time the fourth dimension?

 

[KaiRai]

I once had to explain to my teacher the nature of astro physics, because she wasn't aware of the "concept" as she called it.


She felt like a true mongoloid when she found out it's actually a branch of science and there's a degree in it.

 

[IamQ]

I have, but I've never said it in their face.

There was one time when my swedish teacher went bonkers when someone questioned about democracy.

She yelled that if you don't agree with democracy, then you don't know what it means.

I'm pretty sure that most dictators in the world knows what it means.

 

[Abedeus]

Yes, especially in Maths. Idiot is supposed to teach us... Usually when we need a really difficult example, I must come up with a way to solve it, then two friends behind me will quickly check it and 95% of the time turns out I was correct.

The only reason I even bother helping her is because I don't want to utterly waste 45 minutes (that's how long our lessons last) of the entire class just because our teacher is incompetent. We really ought to talk with our principal about giving us our old teacher back.

 

[Troublesome Lagomorph]

Every now and then. However I used to outsmart my English teachers in my first school at least twice a week.

 

[BuckminsterF]

Science: 4th state of matter

Umm, unless I'm mistaken aren't there five?

Solid
Liquid
Gas
Plasma
and Bohems-Einstein Condensates?

OT: English: had to explain to 7th grade English class what a metaphor and what a simile is and the differences, when the teacher messed it up. "P

Bose-Einstein Condensate

I had a large number of teachers mess things up. Mostly due to reading from the books, which got it wrong to begin with. I knew enough to not rub it in a persons face, unless I didn't like them to begin with. I never really made a point of arguing it unless I was told I was wrong publicly.

Right, thank you, Bose-Einstein.

You forgot Fermian Condensates

ot: I've had to convince a science teacher that water isn't the only substance that can exist as a solid liquid and gas. I've had to convince an english teacher that a metaphor wasn't personification. I've had to convince a math teacher that dimes are less .25 centimeters thick. I've had to convince social studies teachers that communism had a valid point. I think that covers the core classes...

 

[Necrofudge]

Yeah but I wasn't enough of a douche to actually announce any flaws with what the teacher said, her philosophy on the subject, or anything else. Teachers have hard fucking lives, having to deal with loud children all the time and not being paid enough to do it.

 

[StarStruckStrumpets]

I share your pain. The majority of the time, I find my teacher's methods to be illogical, rather than lacking in intelligence, which is a good thing. Though I did repeatedly rip at a primary school teacher I had. I sucked at maths even then, and I still managed to prove her wrong. Got detention for showing her up too.

God she was thick.

 

[Scumpernickle]

Although I don't correct her, my Science teacher is terrible at grammar. I have to correct paragraphs of mistakes while I'm taking notes, but what really scares me is that most of the other student in my class either don't notice her grammar or just don't want to correct her, like me.

 

[rokkolpo]

i have to correct my english teacher all the time.

also when a teacher tries to make an opinion in a fact, that,s when the teacher BURNS!

 

[Ridonculous_Ninja]

My French teacher in Grade 8 and my current Socials teacher have this terrible habit of believing students to be incapable of rational thought and such do not need to be listened too.

This annoys me, because when I ask an intelligent question or notice something they don't and point it out, they do not get it.

I spent like 5 minutes trying to get my French teacher to notice that everyone was saying "popcorn" unecessarily in their sentences. She never got it.

>.<

So yes, I do outsmart my teachers. Although it annoys me more than them I think.

My science teachers generally know more than me though, so all is not lost!