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...
What? He used Futurama clips? Well, my respect for him has gone from meh all the way up to kinda cool!thenumberthirteen said:I won an argument with my High School physics teacher by stating that if we DID have space ships that could travel the speed of light it wouldn't matter how long it took to get to other stars as time would stand still.
And Al Gore used those clips in The Inconvenient Truth. It's just THAT good.Frequen-Z said:Nah, though one time in science we were discussing global warming, and I said that there was a Futurama episode that explained it perfectly, and asked if 'I brought in a DVD, could we watch it?'
He said yes (he was an awesome teacher) and so we spent the next days lesson watching Futurama.
The Romans were actually involved in a Battle of Thermopylae, not the famous one however. They fought the Seleucids.Sovvolf said:A substitute History teacher once claimed that it was the Romans that fought in the battle of Thermopylae. Though this was way before 300 came out and I guess it wasn't as common of knowledge as it is now. Still I'd have though an History teacher would have known it was Greeks versus Persians. Though pointing that out got me out in the hallway for the duration of the class.
Also the teacher that ripped my work up for using figurative and descriptive speech in a piece of fiction we had to write. I explained that what was written was figurative and was being used to increase the tension at that moment. However that got me into more trouble. I was only 8 at the time too... That sucked.
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:The Romans were actually involved in a Battle of Thermopylae, not the famous one however. They fought the Seleucids.Sovvolf said:A substitute History teacher once claimed that it was the Romans that fought in the battle of Thermopylae. Though this was way before 300 came out and I guess it wasn't as common of knowledge as it is now. Still I'd have though an History teacher would have known it was Greeks versus Persians. Though pointing that out got me out in the hallway for the duration of the class.
Also the teacher that ripped my work up for using figurative and descriptive speech in a piece of fiction we had to write. I explained that what was written was figurative and was being used to increase the tension at that moment. However that got me into more trouble. I was only 8 at the time too... That sucked.
What did you say to him or her? If you don't mind.thenumberthirteen said:I won an argument with my High School physics teacher by stating that if we DID have space ships that could travel the speed of light it wouldn't matter how long it took to get to other stars as time would stand still.
And Al Gore used those clips in The Inconvenient Truth. It's just THAT good.Frequen-Z said:Nah, though one time in science we were discussing global warming, and I said that there was a Futurama episode that explained it perfectly, and asked if 'I brought in a DVD, could we watch it?'
He said yes (he was an awesome teacher) and so we spent the next days lesson watching Futurama.