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[–] Artemis_Mystique@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 hours ago

My high school chem teacher, while explaining soap micelles, went on a tangent saying that we don't really need soap to wash ourselves and that he personally never used soap while bathing, I liked that teacher but TMI and gross.

[–] mub@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 hours ago

Only boring people get bored.

Utter nonsense but it was said to my boy by a junior school teacher. Was an interesting conversation when I talked to her at parent teacher day.

[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

My chemistry teacher didn't understand why consumers complain about pesticides, since she claimed you could just rinse them off easily (which isn't entirely accurate). She got cancer shortly after.

My anatomy and physiology teacher told the class he believed the entire Middle East should be nuked, after showing the wikipedia article on Ross Perot and talking about how the country is in decline because Perot lost the presidential election.

He also body shamed women during class, and told women that if they are behind on cooking dinner they can just throw some garlic and onion in a pan and their husbands would smell the good aromas and not know any better.

He also required students to dance and he video recorded every dance, this was not optional and had nothing to do with the curriculum, but it was treated very seriously like an end-of-class thesis. It doesn't take much of an imagination to worry about what he was doing with those video tapes. This was at the same high school where it turns out one of the coaches was molesting the students.

[–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 hours ago

The only agreeable thing here is that sautéed garlic and onions are yummy. The rest is some serious 😬

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I thought you were talking about college instructors until you mentioned high school... especially because you referred to "women" instead of girls...

[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 9 hours ago

Ah good point, this was like junior or senior year, I guess I thought of them as women.

[–] Corno@lemm.ee 3 points 12 hours ago

I had a teacher who believed that the moon landing was fake.

[–] 5in1k@lemm.ee 7 points 16 hours ago

I had a teacher during sex ed start yelling about how you gotta work on and please your lady not a “wham bam thank you ma’am”, his words. Now not in 7th grade sex ed it wouldn’t have been so weird. Same teacher had a diabetic fit and started yelling and writing E over and over while grading our tests.

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 15 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I had a teacher who claimed that dinosaurs weren't real. She said that people just naturally love patterns so when we find random bones we arrange them into shapes we like. Someone in the class said what about skulls that are just one bone and she ignored it lol.

That was many years ago and it's still stuck in my memory as one of the dumbest things I've ever heard.

[–] BertramDitore@lemm.ee 10 points 18 hours ago

Wow that’s wild. The thing that bothers me most about shit like this is that a good teacher would put aside their pride and take it as an opportunity to learn something themselves and show the class how to find out an answer to a question like this. Instead, you’ll always remember her as the dumbass who didn’t know what fossils are.

[–] janus2@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

college instructor for Communication 101 went on several unprompted rants about how depression wasn't real because it couldn't be detected with brain scans

even though it, uh, absolutely can? also nobody asked you anyway dude???

[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 12 hours ago

I bet this person called themselves a Christian.

[–] herorobb@beehaw.org 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I wrote a paper on the origin of the y chromesome in biology class in college and the professor docked me points with the note written in the margins "I don't think humans and papayas have a common ancestor."

[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 12 hours ago

then how do you explain the y in papaya? checkmate professor

[–] Hyphlosion@lemm.ee 9 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

I remember in High School where we were pressured into having to choose a political party for our US Government class.

Yeah I thought the 2-party system was stupid then too and absolutely refused to pick a side. It was clear to me then, even as a teen, that people’s opinions change over time as they themselves change. Party loyalty is bullshit.

[–] riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 19 hours ago

History teacher told us that NASA found alien machines on the dark side of the moon.

Midway through his speech he fell asleep in his seated walker, woke up shortly after and then the been rang.

He was neither physically nor mentally fit to be a teacher.

[–] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (3 children)

5th grade biology teacher explaining to me why teleportation is bad, referencing that Cronenberg movie with the fly

[–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 hours ago

Teachers loved telling you about shit they saw in movies and passing it off as wisdom

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 4 points 17 hours ago

my 7th grade biology teacher dedicated a lesson to why evolution was false and her base argument was that she never evolved in her entire life, therefore evolution was false.

i suspect that a majority of the students agreed w her.

[–] Hyphlosion@lemm.ee 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Never seen that movie, but wouldn’t teleportation just kill you from the demolecularzation or whatever?

[–] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

In the movie it did worse: mangle you on reassembly because a fly got in the teleporter with you

[–] BertramDitore@lemm.ee 31 points 1 day ago (2 children)

A middle school teacher asked for an analogy about something, I don’t remember what specifically, but I raised my hand and excitedly said “Oh! Like how math can help you understand music and music can help you understand math?”

The teacher looked at me like I was a total fool and said “music has absolutely nothing to do with math, how could you possibly think that?”

Since I was a snarky little punk, and I knew I was right, I said “have you heard about the circle of fifths? Let me tell you about it” and I proceeded to explain the mathematical beauty of music to the entire class. I even had sheet music in my bag from my piano lessons, so I pulled it out and showed it to everyone to explain the bars, tempo, and time signature, all of which are based on mathematical principles.

She was not happy to be proven wrong in front of a class of fifth graders.

[–] Umbrias@beehaw.org 1 points 11 hours ago

music has things that can be described mathematically in ways that are largely historical, but not axiomatic in a math sense. but if learning music helps you learn math and/or visa versa, power to you.

[–] JOMusic@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Lol. Pythagoras - considered one of the gods to maths teachers - explicitly talked about the mathematical beauty of music. Where was this person trained?

[–] BertramDitore@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

Goood question. I hadn’t thought about her in ages, but it’s funny how random memories of her class are coming back now. She was a shitty teacher, she clearly didn’t want to be there.

[–] Taewyth@jlai.lu 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Had a history teacher insiste that people can't live without clothes on. As in, you actually fucking due quickly after getting naked.

To be "fair" I think that it was more a case of her being mad that I corrected her "pyramid of needs" than her defending her actual opinion.

[–] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Is he/it? I have to wonder if this is one of those "The Beatles are overrated" kinds of opinions

[–] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Well speaking as a queer person I and many of my friends have had the pyramid cited to us to show why we would always be unhappy. The hierarchy is not an entirely flawed concept and in the broadest of strokes I agree with it. Which is why I only say it's overrated, not inherently wrong. The hierarchy just falls apart rather quickly for GSM folks while being taken as fact by the general population.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 hours ago

I'm familiar with the hierarchy, but I'm failing to see how or why it would be used to say that queer people would always be unhappy. What's that all about?

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (2 children)

8th grade Earth Science teacher. I shared a fun little factoid I had just learned: if you’re standing on the North Pole, every direction is south.

She disagreed and spent like 20 minutes explaining why that was wrong. I didn’t understand most of what she was trying to convey, but I do remember hearing “you can go north but in a southerly direction.”

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[–] Lokoschade@feddit.org 54 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Not my story but from my boyfriend. In English class they were supposed to write a review about a movie. He wrote a negative one about The Last Airbender from M. Night Shyamalan. First she argued that "iceberg" is not an english word (this took place in Germany) and that he should instead use "icy mountain" they had to look it up in a dictionary to convince her otherwise and then she took points away because "why would you write a review about something and not recommend it".

[–] Hyphlosion@lemm.ee 1 points 15 hours ago

English, that language that borrows words from everywhere else?

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[–] yngmnwntr@lemmy.ml 43 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I forget if it was on the day or day after, but while the events of 9/11 were unfolding or coming to light I had a social studies teacher claim the plane that crashed in the field was an attack on our agriculture.

[–] BmeBenji@lemm.ee 4 points 22 hours ago

Remember when that stray bullet hit the side of that Honda? That was a clear attack on the american plexiglas industry

[–] rudyharrelson@lemmy.radio 33 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Not a teacher, per se, but the senior dev on my old team once said something that left me scratching my head. We were trying to troubleshoot an inconsistent bug in our software, and I said, "Maybe it's a race condition," to which he replied, "There's no such thing."

Still trying to figure out what he meant by that.

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe he meant there's no such thing in the context of that application?

[–] rudyharrelson@lemmy.radio 2 points 14 hours ago

Probably! He was a very smart guy (way more formal education in computer science than I), so I've always assumed there was some truth to what he said, but he didn't elaborate further and I didn't like bothering him with unnecessary questions, so I never followed up on the topic despite my confusion.

[–] Taewyth@jlai.lu 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Dude only ever wrote single threaded software, that's his secret sauce to avoir race conditions

[–] jwt@programming.dev 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

10/10 joke

n'avoir pas (verb goes in the middle)

/jokeI know it still needs to be conjugated. I also accept the possibility that I could be wrong.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago

In the infinitive, ne pas verb is the correct order.

[–] suburban_hillbilly@lemmy.ml 48 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I had an intro to sociology prof spend an entire lecture on full blown anti vax conspiracy shit.

Also had a bio prof take 5 during an anatomy lecture to give a teary eyed plea for the young women in class to not ruin one of the 'fundamental joys of motherhood' by getting their nipples pierced.

[–] 5in1k@lemm.ee 3 points 16 hours ago

30 seconds of googling shows me that women can still breastfeed with nipple piercings. I would question any of the info he gave me about anatomy.

[–] riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 19 hours ago

Would have been great if the student said "yes but it will increase another fundamental joy, one that lasts longer than the breastfeeding stage of infants"

[–] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 1 day ago

I have 2 of the same teacher. She was an elderly history teacher and I wished I could say a good one.

  1. She wants to watch a Columbus movie after the exams. We were pretty hyped because watching movies is chill. The movie starts and something graphical happened, she immediately skipped a couple minutes. If you have any understanding of the history of Columbus, you can see how this ends... The next graphical scenes come and go in a quick skip. At one point, Columbus was in America, Columbus did Columbus things and she skipped so far forward that he was back in Spain. And in the end, we "watched" a 2 hrs movie in 30/40 minutes. She asked how we finished the movie so quickly. I know what happened in the movie because I know history but I don't know the movie at all.

  2. It is summer. No Aircon. Big glass windows. In lunch break, people leave to buy 1,5 liter bottles of water for insanely cheap. Everyone! Has! These! Bottles! Everyone is drinking their water in the lunch break. Class starts. Everyone is paying attention and is working. Someone asks "hey, could I go to the toilet, please?". Teacher allows them. Everyone else is reminded that toilets exist and how much water they have drunk. A bunch of people ask one by one if they could go to the toilet and the teacher allows it one by one. At some point, literally everyone who had to visit the toilet but 1 person went to the toilet, and she exclaims "stop asking! Just go when no one is already on the toilet!". The student gets up immediately and walks to the door and before they had the chance of opening the door. She screams "what are you doing?!!??" They respond "I want to go to the toilet." And she screams "don't you know that you have to ask!???". We were very confused.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 32 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Our physics teacher and our chemistry teacher had an ongoing civil riff on whether or not electrons exist.

We'd hear one side of the argument in Chemistry and then parrot it to him in Physics, and he'd give us a rebuttal and we'd parrot it back to her in Chemistry. This went on for about two weeks.

Looking back on it, I'm pretty sure they discussed it in the staff room beforehand, but at the time it felt like a real smackdown.

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That all women should be in the kitchen and all black people should be slaves again.

Was a very interesting English class from a black woman...

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