Sorry sir, but I can't take you seriously.

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SwishiestB0g

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ecoho said:
OT: people who say their atheist, now before you all attack me here is why, logically religion is like insurance, id rather have it and not need it then need it and not have it:)
I've got nothing against Atheists or Atheism or Religions, however just like Religion nuts, I don't care what you believe or don't, that's your choice. Keep it to yourself and it'd be a much calmer world.

OT: I once had a french teacher who claimed we were the worst class for being late and breaking rules. She was also our gym teacher.

She'd show up to class with 15 minutes left as we're all out in the hall 'cause she locked the door and was paranoid so only her and the janitors had keys.
Then she'd yell at us for eating in the gym, literally while eating a blueberry muffin.
No respect for that woman at all.
 

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Let's see...

A sub jumps to mind. I don't know where they found him, I am baffled how he managed to get into the school, but he inept in every facet of teaching. It's been a while, I was about 12 when he walked into the classroom, but I'll try to recall the events of that terrifying lesson.

He was a middle-aged man of middle eastern descent, for whom it was clear English wasn't his first language. He dismissed the lesson plan that had been left, and began just lecturing about the galaxy. I'm unsure to this day what exactly he was talking about, but it ranged from quarks to just abstract bits of information about astronomy. We were 12, did I mention that? He just rambled on and on... when he was "teaching" that is. I've yet to mention the fact he came in and was instantly hostile. Everyone pissed him off, and woe betide you if you so much as attempted to ask a question. By the end of the lesson he had threatened to kill us, otherwise harm us, and had chased at least one person out of the class punching him in the back, screaming "Never come back here again". Upon leaving he issued us ridiculously complex assignments, seemingly under the impression, this was his class (which would explain the complete lack of context from the rambling).

The guy who got chased out had it coming for so long, he was a dick, but still, this was a teacher and he was a 12 year old ****.

He was by far the most extremely incapable teacher I've had, but I've had others who were poor for other reasons.

Nearly every maths tutor I had, bar two, loathed me. I was an alright student, I wasn't disruptive or rude, and I got decent results and handed stuff in more often than not. So the abject hatred I inspired from at least three of them was just baffling. One in particular was truly one of the most unhappy, spiteful and bitter women I've ever met, and because of this, she had absolutely no idea how to get receptive students, or even interact with anyone who wasn't twisted and hateful. Thus, when idiots disrupted the class, nothing occurred teaching wise.

In fact, there was a more apt maths teacher I had, who I got along with better, and he could teach... so long as everyone was attentive and quiet. Needless to say, it was secondary school, that never happened, so I actually experienced very little learning in that room. He would just roar at everything, and that made the disruptors laugh, and he did not get it wasn't working. Le sigh.

I had a Classics teacher that "wasn't convinced by" evolution, didn't know the Fates weren't only a metaphor in Greek mythology, and often just repeated what had been read, rather than constructing on and exploring it. She was fairly annoying.

I also had a mad zealously overbearing women for English Language, who was certain I'd fail if I didn't attend extra classes. I got an A. She could teach, she just didn't have much likeability at all, she made it very hard to connect with her, her sense of humour was absolutely dead, and she thought what she taught needed a lot more depth than it did. She clearly wanted to be teaching at degree level, but couldn't, so subject the next step down to the grueling intensity that would come with end stage degree study.

In retrospect, I've had some teachers and lecturers so awesome that they completely overshadow most of the banal or inept ones, so really I've been very fortunate ^_^
 

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SwishiestB0g said:
ecoho said:
OT: people who say their atheist, now before you all attack me here is why, logically religion is like insurance, id rather have it and not need it then need it and not have it:)
I've got nothing against Atheists or Atheism or Religions, however just like Religion nuts, I don't care what you believe or don't, that's your choice. Keep it to yourself and it'd be a much calmer world.

OT: I once had a french teacher who claimed we were the worst class for being late and breaking rules. She was also our gym teacher.

She'd show up to class with 15 minutes left as we're all out in the hall 'cause she locked the door and was paranoid so only her and the janitors had keys.
Then she'd yell at us for eating in the gym, literally while eating a blueberry muffin.
No respect for that woman at all.
my apologies i meant that more as people who say their atheist when they know im religious just to be dicks.
 

SwishiestB0g

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ecoho said:
my apologies i meant that more as people who say their atheist when they know im religious just to be dicks.
It's completely fine. It's more for those kind of people any way.
 

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I had a teacher who on one day said that World War 2 started in 1938, then on another day (after reading the text book or something) said that the war only technically started when Germany invaded France.
My Polish mates were fuming.
 

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One of my English teachers asked me to "open up the computer and pull out a file".

yes, those exact words.
 

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NezumiiroKitsune said:
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In retrospect, I've had some teachers and lecturers so awesome that they completely overshadow most of the banal or inept ones, so really I've been very fortunate ^_^
Yeah, pretty much that. Had a lot of teachers that hated me, and I hated them back. Then, from Grade 8, mostly great. My teacher in grade 8 is one of the best people in history. Everyone loved him.
 

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Engineering ethics; not so much on a corporate or designing level, but more on an individual's morality. The instructor tried to teach the class as if we were in high school, and he just flat out did not know how to teach. I had him a few years earlier for an introductory level course and his GRAD student was teaching the class. He would sometimes add his own comment to a topic, but nothing in the form of TEACHING.

To this day, I have no idea why he is an instructor and he should be replace by someone who is either seasoned enough or new enough to bring something to the education table.
 

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KarmaTheAlligator said:
My Art History teacher used to leave the room during an written exam to go smoking. Every single time. And then marvelled at our grades. Ma'am, you're not qualified to teach.
My history teacher in HS would take smoke breaks almost every day after he was done lecturing. We'd finish with about 15 min left in the period and he was just disappear. He even left during the days when we had "lockdown" drills. And would leave the classroom doors wide open. Not the best example, since he would literally yell at you if you disrupted the lecture.

OT: My sophomore year of HS, my second year spanish class. I stopped taking that class seriously when we were allowed to play Connect Four if we finished the lesson or the homework for the day and there was time left in the period. I became a champ at the game, but really didn't learn anything about the Spanish language.
 

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Uh, he's kind of right. It's a bit of a simplification, but he's right...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_%28astronomy%29

Auroras result from emissions of photons in the Earth's upper atmosphere, above 80 km (50 miles), from ionized nitrogen atoms regaining an electron, and oxygen and nitrogen atoms returning from an excited state to ground state. They are ionized or excited by the collision of solar wind and magnetospheric particles being funneled down and accelerated along the Earth's magnetic field lines; excitation energy is lost by the emission of a photon of light, or by collision with another atom or molecule:
i wouldnt call that a simplification, i would call that being wrong.

maybe its jsut me but i hold science teachers to a high standard where close enough isnt good enough. so i can understand the OP lose of credibility for the teacher


aways OT: The only thing that comes to mind for me was a teacher that i dont think ayone took seriously. He tuaght us some math an when we had to get rid of a decimal point he would say you feed it to the chickens.

we would watch movies about aboriginal trackers and other movie. the wierd this was this was a geography class. i cant think of anything geography related.

the only other thing i can remember from that class was some chick saying that a penis over 33 inched is too big but less than that is ok.
 

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My 9th grade English teacher. Gods. I don't think I can tell you just how much she has no clue what she was doing. She walked us in on the cheerleaders changing...twice...and she is the cheerleading coach!
I wish I was you so bad right now.

Do you realize that you had an actual excuse to see the cheerleaders changing?

That is beyond awesome.


And I had a computer teacher (it was a typing class, but still) that made us turn the volume down after making the sticky keys noise (pressing shift a shit ton on XP computers that haven't been updated) throughout class.

The noise comes from the tower, not the speakers. So naturally, we continued right the fuck on doing it.

It was Freshman year, what do you expect
 

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In school my class has so few people in it that we have to take lessons with one of the other, smaller classes. When asked what continent we live in (Sweden, so Europe would be the appropriate answer) one of the students of the class mentioned above answered "Norden" (the Nordic countries).

There is also a girl in that class who until recently believed that the Earth was the closest planet to the sun and had to have photosynthesis explained to her.

These would all be okay missteps, if it weren't for the fact that we in our last year of gymnasium [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymnasium_(school)].
 

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With regards to evolution, I have 2 choice quotes
One "Oh, so they just magically change from one thing to another!?"
And two "Oh, so what are they; Pokemon or something?" Now, in this quotes defence, they weren't necessarily doubting evolution, they had simply not yet come across the theory.
 

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Once in German class, one of our worksheets had a small furry animal as one of the pictures. My friend asked her what the German word for gerbil is. She then went into a fit of rage screaming about how gerbils don't exist. She swiped all the paperwork off of her desk and started yelling at us for making up fictional animals to screw with her, undermining her lesson etc when she stormed out to get the principal of the school. When he came in we explained what happened and he pulled out his laptop, got on wikipedia and proved her wrong. Needless to say no one ever took her seriously again. Thats probably the reason there was no german the next year.
 

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Oh god yes.

My analytical chemistry prof in 2nd year university was a little old Jewish man with a huge beard and a beret (yes, a beret, not one of those jewish hats). He looked like a lawn gnome. He sometimes biked to class and was still wearing a bicycle helmet when he walked in. He would do problems from the textbook in class without ever reading out what the question he was doing was, so nobody ever knew what he was doing or what he was trying to solve. Also he wasn't a very good teacher. I stopped taking him seriously a few weeks in, and it's one of only two B's i've gotten in university :(
 

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I actually had a science teacher - nicest guy in the world mind you - but he was awful. I mean literally he'd hand us an assignment and - I quote - say "Don't ask me for help because I haven't read the assignment yet." He was honestly giving us work to do having no clue what it was himself. I mean, come on.
 

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funguy2121 said:
I'm just glad that someone was kind enough to escape you from that situation, where you were forced to hear a foreign accent for an hour and a half out of the day, wracking your inner xenophobe's last nerve, and rendering you an "escapee." I think "evacuee" would likely be a better term.
I might be wrong, but I think the OP was using 'escapees' as a term for folks who come to The Escapist. Sure, most folks I've seen have referred to them as 'escapists' - but, hey, whatever works.






Of course, the correct term is 'Escapistonians'.