Sorry sir, but I can't take you seriously.
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I can forgive the fact that not all lawyers or doctors know history. It's not part of their job to know it. I know very little history myself, but not knowing that Nelson Mandela is alive... I've never heard about Nelson's Column however. I guess knowing about monuments in England has never been relevant so far in my education...Mad1Cow said:
Thank you for saying this, it actually made me laugh quite a bit. great start on my day, thanks a lot.AstylahAthrys said:
OT: I haven't had any teachers that were stupid in a way that was fun, but a friend of mine had one who saw there was a misprint in the math book when he was in third grade. It said 2-3 and that was impossible because there were no answer to it. He figured it was -1. He was 7.
I had to walk around a punch of American teachers when they were visiting to see how Finland's school system works and how do we keep up the top3 spot in PISA exams.
"How much your schools cost to attend?"
-"They are free for any Finnish resident"
"Well clearly the lack of funds makes these bad schools. Private school system would bring better results, a public system simply cannot function, like where do you get the money to pay for these?"
Earlier we had spent 2 hrs telling them about how the Finnish school system works. Also we challenged one of the math teachers to compete against a student in basic math, the student won the teacher with over 70 points.
Well i should say "Sorry ma'am I can not take you seriously!" In that case, but you get the point.
Also. My WoW Guild once had a player who said he should get raid spots because he joined this guild to raid. He took 30 minutes to get to the raid instance, took random 15-25min breaks in between and went to get a pizza during a boss fight, also he gear was poor, he had no idea what he was doing and he kept advising other people how to play their classes when he didn't even know the basics of the other classes.
Hes final words before we kicked him: "Hey! I am the superior player in here, you asked me to join this guild, I didn't ask to get an invite" The amount of flack he got after that (Seeing that he begged me to get hes application trough and he also begged during the interview). Oddly enough after that he didn't get in to other guilds anymore (We kinda like passed around the chat logs and vent recordings) and after that he jsut disappeared.
"How much your schools cost to attend?"
-"They are free for any Finnish resident"
"Well clearly the lack of funds makes these bad schools. Private school system would bring better results, a public system simply cannot function, like where do you get the money to pay for these?"
Earlier we had spent 2 hrs telling them about how the Finnish school system works. Also we challenged one of the math teachers to compete against a student in basic math, the student won the teacher with over 70 points.
Well i should say "Sorry ma'am I can not take you seriously!" In that case, but you get the point.
Also. My WoW Guild once had a player who said he should get raid spots because he joined this guild to raid. He took 30 minutes to get to the raid instance, took random 15-25min breaks in between and went to get a pizza during a boss fight, also he gear was poor, he had no idea what he was doing and he kept advising other people how to play their classes when he didn't even know the basics of the other classes.
Hes final words before we kicked him: "Hey! I am the superior player in here, you asked me to join this guild, I didn't ask to get an invite" The amount of flack he got after that (Seeing that he begged me to get hes application trough and he also begged during the interview). Oddly enough after that he didn't get in to other guilds anymore (We kinda like passed around the chat logs and vent recordings) and after that he jsut disappeared.
There's a guy I used to go to school with. He had a habit to tell lies of grandeur in an attempt to impress people. I never took him seriously
My biology teachers always tried to argue facts with me. I would always promptly prove them wrong.
One particular incident stands out though. I had just transferred from some little, unknown, student population of maybe 800 high school to a well known big city high school. I was in the advanced biology class and we were discussing hybridization. The teacher mentioned something like ligers or tigons would never occur in the wild because tigers and lions don't share a habitat. Lions are found in Africa and tiger mostly in Asia.
At which point I agreed with her, it was near impossible for the two species to produce offspring, but just because of their natural lifestyles. There are such things are Asian lions. Teacher disputed my claim, told me to show proof. I immediately went online and showed the class the asiatic lion. Needless to say she went quiet... We got along fine throughout the year, so meh.
I spent my childhood reading National Geographic and generally being a biology nerd, so stuff like that happened to me a lot in school.
-Any typos can be blamed on me typing this at 2:30am.
One particular incident stands out though. I had just transferred from some little, unknown, student population of maybe 800 high school to a well known big city high school. I was in the advanced biology class and we were discussing hybridization. The teacher mentioned something like ligers or tigons would never occur in the wild because tigers and lions don't share a habitat. Lions are found in Africa and tiger mostly in Asia.
At which point I agreed with her, it was near impossible for the two species to produce offspring, but just because of their natural lifestyles. There are such things are Asian lions. Teacher disputed my claim, told me to show proof. I immediately went online and showed the class the asiatic lion. Needless to say she went quiet... We got along fine throughout the year, so meh.
I spent my childhood reading National Geographic and generally being a biology nerd, so stuff like that happened to me a lot in school.
-Any typos can be blamed on me typing this at 2:30am.
grade 10 wood working class the teacher never being there so substitutes not being able to run the class to no actual working with wood don't know which one I took less seriously the teacher that was hardly ever there or the subs trying to teach woodworking with out any the use of any of the tools (so paper work)
Also the teacher (can't remember what grade) told me you have to learn handwriting because you will end up handwriting everything not printing. I never handwrite any thing even back then its all just standard writing. Well the only exception being my name.
Also a sort of acquaintance of my moms told her that the doctor said that she was not feeling well was do to that fact that she was out of red blood cells.
Also the teacher (can't remember what grade) told me you have to learn handwriting because you will end up handwriting everything not printing. I never handwrite any thing even back then its all just standard writing. Well the only exception being my name.
Also a sort of acquaintance of my moms told her that the doctor said that she was not feeling well was do to that fact that she was out of red blood cells.
My Website Design class is done over the internet and all the lessons are from a older version of the book. It wasn't until Sunday that she realized that the page numbers in the old book don't correspond to the new book and left the whole class confused. The project and research paper are due on Monday. She made the change at 11pm Sunday Night. Not to mention the gross amount of typos for a teacher that primarily teaches through online courses. I remember the the "Mircrosoft Wrod Submissions Assignmnent."
There was the time my Chemistry teacher retired in the 3rd week of school because he was tired of all the bullshit and he was replaced by the biggest dick head in the world. His atrocious teaching dropped my high B down to a low D. He would explain everything in the most ass-backwards way and then when someone would ask him to explain something he would respond with, "You know, in college the professor won't stop an entire lecture just for one student. Take notes and you won't have questions." Now that I am in College my professors will stop and answer any question, even if it is a "lecture." It wasn't until a competent teacher was brought on full time that my grade could recover to a 92.5, the exact percentage required to get rounded up to an A.
There was the time my Chemistry teacher retired in the 3rd week of school because he was tired of all the bullshit and he was replaced by the biggest dick head in the world. His atrocious teaching dropped my high B down to a low D. He would explain everything in the most ass-backwards way and then when someone would ask him to explain something he would respond with, "You know, in college the professor won't stop an entire lecture just for one student. Take notes and you won't have questions." Now that I am in College my professors will stop and answer any question, even if it is a "lecture." It wasn't until a competent teacher was brought on full time that my grade could recover to a 92.5, the exact percentage required to get rounded up to an A.
I think just about everyone would have at some point experienced this. If you want my advice, chances are if you find this annoying, then you are probably one of the better students. If that is the case then just bludge through his classes and teach yourself. I do this a lot and most of my teachers hate me but I get good grades so I don't really give a shit about them lol.brandon237 said:
On the contrary, a teacher can't know everything. A teacher who PRETENDS he knows everything when he doesn't is more of a problem than a teacher who knows to admit when he's wrong. Otherwise you can't take his word, he might just be making shit up.Jean Hag said:
History minor, social science ed major here. The first three things on your list were accepted history at one point; it's only recently that historians have gone back and re-examined the accepted "facts." If this teacher is older, it may be what he was taught, and even if not, it could very well be the curriculum that he's supposed to teach -- state mandated curricula are very rarely up to date. The one about the civil war is true -- but only when talking about Americans. Basically, more Americans were killed in the Civil War than in World War II. I've got no response for 5 or six, though.the spud said:
As for the stuff about George Bush and Tony Blair, considering Cheney's position on Presidential powers and Blair's general coziness with the Bush administration, those comments, while ignorant, were closer to the truth than I'd like to admit
It started in 1939 after Germany invaded Poland (so the first time she was wrong about the date). My mates were absolutely pissed when the conquest of their country was passed over as insignificant (which I think is a little unfair at the very least considering the invasion was what triggered the declaration of war by the French, British and Commonwealth nations, and was used to secure a temporary alliance with the USSR).Plazmatic said:
once in the london eye (big ferris wheel in london) on a school-trip our english teacher convinced the girls that were in there with us that a radio mast that was seen on the hills on the edge of the town was the actual Eiffel tower from paris...
at first it was funny but when we talked about it a few weeks later in class the girls got all aggressive in defending his statement until he burst out laughing, he seriously had to bring in a map and explain them how the world is curved before they saw that his statement was just a joke.
from that day on he promised not to make such silly jokes because some people where just to stupid to see beyond the words of a joke (luckely he did so when the rest of the class was gone...else it would be (even if true) quite insulting)
at first it was funny but when we talked about it a few weeks later in class the girls got all aggressive in defending his statement until he burst out laughing, he seriously had to bring in a map and explain them how the world is curved before they saw that his statement was just a joke.
from that day on he promised not to make such silly jokes because some people where just to stupid to see beyond the words of a joke (luckely he did so when the rest of the class was gone...else it would be (even if true) quite insulting)
Now that is some epic level failing. Sadly it is not that uncommon for people to mix up the two. Even though they were the complete opposite and committed historic levels of genocide against each other.
Now that is some epic level failing. Sadly it is not that uncommon for people to mix up the two. Even though they were the complete opposite and committed historic levels of genocide against each other.questionnairebot said: