Poll: Outsmarting Teacher

[Godavari]

All the time. The first time I remember doing it was in 1st grade when the teacher kept on trying to tell us that the sun revolves around all the planets.

I'm having a very hard time believing this. I've never experienced that kind of stupid before.

 

[Scumpernickle]

Oh and my P.E teacher is just weird. She like to say that her class isn't "P.E." it's Physical Education, well me and my friend decided to tell her that one is just the abbreviation of the other. But she said theres a different concept between the two, does that make any sense at all?

She had conferences for everyone in her class, but me and my friends just told our parents and they found it to be a complete waste of time to have a meeting for a P.E. class. And the other two P.E. teachers are playing football and soccer while were doing BMI tests. A friend of mine actually got a bad grade because his BMI wasn't in the range it was suppost to be (he was too skinny I guess). Does that sound right?

 

[Julianking93]

All the time. The first time I remember doing it was in 1st grade when the teacher kept on trying to tell us that the sun revolves around all the planets.

I'm having a very hard time believing this. I've never experienced that kind of stupid before.

Believe it. Mrs. Sprag (worst last name ever). She was an ass backwards, pants on head retarded, traditionalist ***** who's intelligence resembles that of peasent in the 10th century.

 

[Eatbrainz]

Well, heres two examples:

a few weeks ago my R.E teacher said to the class god killed the egyptians and saved the hebrews because he loved them, and i said " but if god is supposed to be all benevolent why did he wipe out a whole civilization, what ever happened to 'thou shalt not kill'?"

my science teacher said that leonardo da vinchi invented the helicopter and i pointed out "No,no,no,no. he didnt INVENT the helicopter. drawing a sketch of something and saying 'This'll fly!' isnt inventing anything."

 

[Empireth]

My french teacher liked to sound like a teenage girl most of the time...
I noticed quite a few flaws in her logic more than once, but I honestly didn't care enough about her class to point them out ever.
...And yes, I was the loner kid that sat at the back not talking to anyone. I don't think that it was superiority that I felt when I noticed the flaws, it was more like a facepalm. So really, it's not that I didn't want to prove the superiority, it was more that I just never talked in that class in the first place, and I didn't feel the need to start then.

 

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

. I realise that English was my favourite subject,

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

OT: it's a rare occasion that anyone in my school gets the opportunity to correct a teacher

Given that I seem to state my English nationality with every other word, I'll let that one pass.

 

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

Hate to burst your bubble about being "smarter than the teacher" but here's a quote from a study guide which debunks your theory about the gender of the narrator:

"The narrator's gender is not identified, but Poe probably intended him to be a man. Here is why: Poe generally wrote from a male perspective, often infusing part of himself into his main characters. Also, in major short stories in which he identifies the narrator by gender?stories such as "The Black Cat," "The Cask of Amontillado," and "The Fall of the House of Usher"?the narrator is male. Finally, the narrator of "A Tell-Tale Heart" exhibits male characteristics, including (1) A more pronounced tendency than females to commit violent acts. Statistics demonstrate overwhelmingly that murder is a male crime. (2) Physical strength that would be unusual in a female. The narrator drags the old man onto the floor and pulls the bed on top of him, then tears up floorboards and deposits the body between joists. (3) The narrator performs a man's chore by bringing four chairs into the old man's bedroom, one for the narrator and three for the policemen. If the narrator were a woman, the policemen probably would have fetched the chairs. But they did not."

*does a victory dance for teachers everywhere*

Also, all you kids got to remember that nobody is perfect, and teaching is a thankless job. Just because you're a teacher does not make you all knowing or infallible.

Victory, just victory, all the arrogant folks around here could really use a dose of this medicine.

http://www.bookrags.com/criticism/the-tell-tale-heart-edgar-allan-poe_11/#

I found this and another essay two hours later, wondering if anyone else had thought the way I did. The second one, which I will try to refind, mentions that the house of usher and tell tale heart could easily be seen as a telling of the same story via different methods. I'm sorry, but being a 20 year old university student means you do on ocassion see things your too focused and more narrow fielded teacher doesn't. Besides, my mum's a teacher, and my uncle, I know just how thankless it can be, I just wanted to see other people's stories.

And arrogance? That wasn't even full victory, anyone without their head up their own arse should be able to see that literature is all about interpretation, and it never, never matters what the author intended. I direct you to Dylan Thomas, who when aksed what a poem meant, read it again, basically telling everyone to find their own damn meaning. You sir, lose.

 

[Vivaldi]

Science: 4th state of matter

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

Solid
Liquid
Gas
Plasma
and Bohems-Einstein Condensates?

Also quark-gluon plasma and Rydberg matter.

Well, if we are going to get freakishly technical, we could also say Fermionic condensates and Transparent Aluminum. that's, 8? Are there any more?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_of_matter

Well, good show!

 

[Numb1lp]

My history teacher is so dumb, I outsmart her all the time.

 

[NiceGurl_14]

I've done it before but only when someone pisses me off, otherwise I'll talk to the teacher directly and tell him/her that this was wrong. I'm just polite like that I guess. I do remember correcting my music teacher when we were practicing rhythms (god it was so boring) and he told me that if it was so easy to do the last one in the book, I did it right and he said that it was wrong at which point I broke the whole thing down in front of the class and basically made an idiot out of him but I got sent to ISS for the day for that

 

[Del-Toro]

I've had to point out that the Soviet Union existed well before World War 2,and have had to, in great amounts, assist my grade ten (year ten, tenth grade, sophmore, whatever, I'm Canadian and that's what we call it) english teacher in the prounounciation of many words, it was rather amusing.

 

[TheNamlessGuy]

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[Maze1125]

. 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.

Actually, I think you'll find you spelt "spelt" and "wrongly" wrongly.

 

[ADDLibrarian]

Hate to burst your bubble about being "smarter than the teacher" but here's a quote from a study guide which debunks your theory about the gender of the narrator:

*does a victory dance for teachers everywhere*

Also, all you kids got to remember that nobody is perfect, and teaching is a thankless job. Just because you're a teacher does not make you all knowing or infallible.

Victory, just victory, all the arrogant folks around here could really use a dose of this medicine.

http://www.bookrags.com/criticism/the-tell-tale-heart-edgar-allan-poe_11/#

I found this and another essay two hours later, wondering if anyone else had thought the way I did. The second one, which I will try to refind, mentions that the house of usher and tell tale heart could easily be seen as a telling of the same story via different methods. I'm sorry, but being a 20 year old university student means you do on ocassion see things your too focused and more narrow fielded teacher doesn't. Besides, my mum's a teacher, and my uncle, I know just how thankless it can be, I just wanted to see other people's stories.

And arrogance? That wasn't even full victory, anyone without their head up their own arse should be able to see that literature is all about interpretation, and it never, never matters what the author intended. I direct you to Dylan Thomas, who when aksed what a poem meant, read it again, basically telling everyone to find their own damn meaning. You sir, lose.

I think you first need to A. Check your spelling on the word "refind" and B. While you're at it, look up the definition of the word "arrogance" because you just demonstrated it perfectly.

Oh, and btw. I'm a librarian and have a degree in English Education. You say you're still a student? Good. Because you have so much still to learn. I win.

P.S. I'm a "miss" not a "sir", unless you were referring to the poster below me.

Edit: Quote shortened to not make a forum mess.

 

[RabidusUnus]

7th grade science teacher argued against me that there were only 3 states of matter.
She relented and told me they only included 3 to "make it easier on students".
I didn't say anything about this but my History book says JKF instead of JFK (John. F. Kennedy) multiple times.

 

[effilctar]

When I was very young I was aware of the incompetence of primary school teachers and how, well, dull they are but that's due to my parents teaching me a LOT or what I know today. My dad who is amazing at maths, chemistry and physics tought me quite a lot about mechanics and such before I left primary school and I found myself in year 5 explaining to my teacher about the mechanics behind a toy car rolling down a slope

 

[RanD00M]

All of the fucking time.But that's just because most of my teacher's are complete idiot's.

 

[Swaki]

when i was younger i could outsmart most of my teachers, and as i got older i had wikipedia to totally humiliate them each time they gave wrong facts.

 

[Dancingman]

Hate to burst your bubble about being "smarter than the teacher" but here's a quote from a study guide which debunks your theory about the gender of the narrator:

*does a victory dance for teachers everywhere*

Also, all you kids got to remember that nobody is perfect, and teaching is a thankless job. Just because you're a teacher does not make you all knowing or infallible.

Victory, just victory, all the arrogant folks around here could really use a dose of this medicine.

http://www.bookrags.com/criticism/the-tell-tale-heart-edgar-allan-poe_11/#

I found this and another essay two hours later, wondering if anyone else had thought the way I did. The second one, which I will try to refind, mentions that the house of usher and tell tale heart could easily be seen as a telling of the same story via different methods. I'm sorry, but being a 20 year old university student means you do on ocassion see things your too focused and more narrow fielded teacher doesn't. Besides, my mum's a teacher, and my uncle, I know just how thankless it can be, I just wanted to see other people's stories.

And arrogance? That wasn't even full victory, anyone without their head up their own arse should be able to see that literature is all about interpretation, and it never, never matters what the author intended. I direct you to Dylan Thomas, who when aksed what a poem meant, read it again, basically telling everyone to find their own damn meaning. You sir, lose.

I think you first need to A. Check your spelling on the word "refind" and B. While you're at it, look up the definition of the word "arrogance" because you just demonstrated it perfectly.

Oh, and btw. I'm a librarian and have a degree in English Education. You say you're still a student? Good. Because you have so much still to learn. I win.

P.S. I'm a "miss" not a "sir", unless you were referring to the poster below me.

Edit: Quote shortened to not make a forum mess.

Thanks for the scathing reply to that very unkind fellow's post, I would have done it, though probably would not have done it as well as you did , plus I just am not in the mood for dealing with condescending, self-proclaimed intellectuals.

 

[GoldenRaz]

I'll say this much: my excellence in English rocks peoples' socks off (overstatement for the sake of awesome).
In other subjects; not so much, but I'm still at the top of the class in most theoretical subjects.