My history teacher was informing us of the restriction of rights for students in public schools for reasons of safety. I quoted Benjamin Franklin by saying, "He who trades freedom for security deserves neither." She didn't have a comeback...
Have you ever outsmarted your teacher?
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Many, many, many times.
It's not hard to find dim teachers in the public schooling system.
College professors are more challenging, and most are sporting about it.
It's not hard to find dim teachers in the public schooling system.
College professors are more challenging, and most are sporting about it.
What? He used Futurama clips? Well, my respect for him has gone from meh all the way up to kinda cool!thenumberthirteen said:
Also, I got into numerous debates with Social Studies teachers, but they almost always ended with no resolution, because we don't have time to look up the answer on the internet.
I tend to not bother with their mistakes, because they have a high pressure job, and when all the other kids get that question wrong, the bell curve gets me a better grade, or at least makes me look smarter.
Oh loads of times. Not to sound like an anti authoritative teenager, but most of the "teachers" in my school are bumbling fucktards. I'm afraid I won't actually learn anything and fuck up in college.
I correct my teachers when they bring up anything relating to popular music from the last 50 years. Like one teacher thought David Bowie died in a car crash, when as we all know it was Marc Bolan.
Movies too.
It happens every now and then, surprisingly most of my teachers seemed to like me
Movies too.
It happens every now and then, surprisingly most of my teachers seemed to like me
Considering whenever a member of my schools history faculty couldn't come up with an answer they would come to me....
Yes.
Yes.
The government teacher this year already, in fact.
And three of my English teachers.
And my algebra 2 teacher... and my trig tea-
I'll stop here.
And three of my English teachers.
And my algebra 2 teacher... and my trig tea-
I'll stop here.
There have been two times where a teacher has done that stupid challenge the person they think is not listening thing on me where it bit them in the ass.
This first was when a teacher caught me drawing (which is actually part of how I learn), and decided to pull the "What did I just say?" card. I told her the last word from her lecture. Her response was "And before that?" I then went through 3 sentences, word-by-word, backwards. She actually couldn't speak for a few seconds (though it was more anger than amazement).
The second occured last year. Due to the fact that half of my physics class was just going over what we had already looked at the day before since we had an online assignment due before class, I took up listening to music as a sort of background music with one headphone only. It actually worked better than I hoped, and soon I was doing it throughout the entire class. During lab on the final few weeks of school, my professor noticed this and began the following conversation (unlike the previous teacher, he had the decency to pull me aside rather than try in front of the class):
Prof: "How long have you been doing this? If it's been anytime during the last week, then you've missed things that will be-"
Me: "I've been doing this all year."
Prof: "...B-but, your grades..."
Me: "Are doing absolutely fine, despite the fact that I've only been doing the first half of most of the online work."
Prof: "Why?"
Me: "Because the second half is always purposely designed to be missed, and even if you get it right, the program reads it wrong half the time. Plus, the first half is the stuff we actually use."
Prof: "How are your grades...?"
Me: "Doing so well? Because I focus on the in classwork, the labs, and the tests, all of which count much more than the online."
Prof: "...Just don't let anyone know about it, and you can keep listening to your music."
Me: "Yeah, I'll do that."
(To help you understand how bad his "teaching sections" were, know that he decided he was going to teach a lesson before the final, nonessay test, going over material that would be on it as well. Half the class openly slept through it and not a single person I know of failed because of that material)
This first was when a teacher caught me drawing (which is actually part of how I learn), and decided to pull the "What did I just say?" card. I told her the last word from her lecture. Her response was "And before that?" I then went through 3 sentences, word-by-word, backwards. She actually couldn't speak for a few seconds (though it was more anger than amazement).
The second occured last year. Due to the fact that half of my physics class was just going over what we had already looked at the day before since we had an online assignment due before class, I took up listening to music as a sort of background music with one headphone only. It actually worked better than I hoped, and soon I was doing it throughout the entire class. During lab on the final few weeks of school, my professor noticed this and began the following conversation (unlike the previous teacher, he had the decency to pull me aside rather than try in front of the class):
Prof: "How long have you been doing this? If it's been anytime during the last week, then you've missed things that will be-"
Me: "I've been doing this all year."
Prof: "...B-but, your grades..."
Me: "Are doing absolutely fine, despite the fact that I've only been doing the first half of most of the online work."
Prof: "Why?"
Me: "Because the second half is always purposely designed to be missed, and even if you get it right, the program reads it wrong half the time. Plus, the first half is the stuff we actually use."
Prof: "How are your grades...?"
Me: "Doing so well? Because I focus on the in classwork, the labs, and the tests, all of which count much more than the online."
Prof: "...Just don't let anyone know about it, and you can keep listening to your music."
Me: "Yeah, I'll do that."
(To help you understand how bad his "teaching sections" were, know that he decided he was going to teach a lesson before the final, nonessay test, going over material that would be on it as well. Half the class openly slept through it and not a single person I know of failed because of that material)
History class last week. Our teacher is a big fat woman-child and I could teach her class in my sleep. We're juniors (Grade 11, for you who use those good ol' fashion numbers, not counting Kindergarten) and we get bonus point for being "artsy". And she grades based on the amount you write, not what you write. So ever since school began, I had her pegged, and so far in my answers to her questions I've called her fat, larger than the Third Reich at its peak, and many more things.
Any way, we were talking about the "Two Greatest Inventors in American History." Her list was: Thomas Edison and some guy who invented the elevator whose name escapes me at the moment. But the conversation went like this:
Me: *raises hand*
Her: Yes?
Me: Ever heard of Nikola Tesla?
Her: I don't think so. . .
Me: Okay.
Her: *Blank stare*
Me: Yes?
Her: Are you going to. . . I dunno. . . Tell me?
Me: No. I'm not. I don't want to.
Her: *Stupid grin, hits herself* <--- I SHIT YOU NOT
Any way, we were talking about the "Two Greatest Inventors in American History." Her list was: Thomas Edison and some guy who invented the elevator whose name escapes me at the moment. But the conversation went like this:
Me: *raises hand*
Her: Yes?
Me: Ever heard of Nikola Tesla?
Her: I don't think so. . .
Me: Okay.
Her: *Blank stare*
Me: Yes?
Her: Are you going to. . . I dunno. . . Tell me?
Me: No. I'm not. I don't want to.
Her: *Stupid grin, hits herself* <--- I SHIT YOU NOT
Which is quite possibly the reason the sub got confused. We were at the time learning about the famous and more well known battle (The one with the 300 Spartans and about 7000 other Greeks. Has I pointed out in my edit... The teacher could have been a Maths or Science teacher fetched in at the last minute to cover the lesson, so the teacher may not have been as well versed in his History.Hobo Joe said:
Back in the day, I think it was year 11, everyone in my maths class could out smart our teacher. He was subsequently fired for not knowing anything about the subect as we were teaching him in the end.
I think it's pretty common for many students to outsmart one or two or omre teachers. Though most of the students who do probably just stay quiet, because they don't want to look like jerks.
Or lazy. God knows that's why if I ever caught one of my instructors doing something wrong, I just wouldn't say anything. It's just a hassle, and wouldn't make the world a better place if I did. =/
Or lazy. God knows that's why if I ever caught one of my instructors doing something wrong, I just wouldn't say anything. It's just a hassle, and wouldn't make the world a better place if I did. =/
