Have you ever outsmarted your teacher?

[Silva]

Constantly, regarding spelling. I don't even bother correcting them any more, but then at university, teachers have more acceptable spelling abilities.

I just think that English teachers in high school should at least remember how to spell things a primary student would know. Yet they often can't, whatever their knowledge of literature and language aside from how to spell.

I guess spelling was one skill that I picked up early in life and kept learning. I kind of wish I'd chosen something more useful or valued by others. But hey, at least I can proof read people's assignments. I should start charging for that, at this rate...

I got into a argument about the esxistance of god. She was basically preeching and I had enough so I put my hand up and said:
'Maam if god is 'omnipotent' they he is all powerful, yes? That is where a flaw lies, if he's all powerful he can create a object to heavy for him to lift making him not all powerful.'
The fact that she walked off means I win.

I'm not religious at all, but I guess I should tell you that there's a counter-argument for that one.

God could make that rock, then make himself strong enough to lift it again. Power works over time, not just in fixed points.

 

[careful]

my math proofs ask the students to do arithmetic calculations, they admit that younger math students can do mental arithmetic better then themselves, even though these old bald guys are in up in the clouds with obscure math, they really cant do basic arithmetic worth shit

 

[TelHybrid]

Teachers are generally dumb unless you're studying at a University, so I usually correct mine on a lot of different topics.

 

[ShrooM_DoughKiD]

I did. but only with one teacher, in grade 10 and 11 my religion teacher had this weird way of looking at social issues and had a steadfast belief in god. So I challenged him on every point that he made about a certain issue and on some occasions, never gave me an answer because I was "Just a child that wouldn't be able to comprehend matters of this magnitude".

 

[Smoochy]

On plenty of occasions. For example, my history teacher did know some of the subjects he discussed, but I constantly corrected him when it came to the Cold War, the Vietnam War and the Early Modern Era (just wasn't his 'thing', I suppose). Not surprisinly, I went on and study History at the university now.

What's an even better story; I suck at math, I really do. This one time the teacher was explaining something and had filled up the entire blackboard with calculations. After writing it down, I couldn't understand how he made a specific jump and asked him; "Sir, is that part right?". He started retracing his steps when someone else asked "Do you even know what you're doing right now?". My teacher replied "Errr... No" and erased the entire calculation to start from scrap >>

And I got into a few discussions (positive ones) with my English teacher and my Life & Religions teacher.

 

[CardinalPiggles]

ermm i did little to no coursework and turned up an hour late for 1 exam in maths and managed to get a C grade (im UK), and my teacher sed to me, at this rate i would only get an F or a G.

so u could say i proved her wrong (we would have massive arguements about it and i would often get thrown out of class)

 

[Kukakkau]

In school? Of course that's easy

Best I had was outsmarting a university lecturer who was presenting the induction day to show what they had to offer. Safe to say I didn't go there after teaching HIM about malaria parastism.

However I did learn from that trip how to tell if a cow is lame by looking at it walk and give it a lameness level - no joke the trip was THAT stupid

 

[lacktheknack]

Nope, I spend my time outsmarting other students.

EDIT: Oh! I remember catching my teacher plagiarizing!

He handed us all a sheet that he "spent all night" making for us "ungrateful-"... yeah.

My sheet had whiteout on it. I checked the back of it against a window and saw that he had whited out "Written by Mr. ".

I'm stunned he didn't fail my assignment for that.

 

[masher]

Only time I really recall doing it was in elementary, and it wasn't really "outsmarting" them I guess... BUT
I was spacing out in class once, so the teacher decided to call on me for an answer, expecting me to completely fail, with ease, I glanced at the bored and answered.
In eighth grade, my teacher thought I had the reading level of like a 4th grader... proved her dumb-ass wrong... and to be fair, she -was- fairly dumb.

 

[AMMO Kid]

I never tried. I like to be considered an honest person.

 

[thenumberthirteen]

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.

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.

And Al Gore used those clips in The Inconvenient Truth. It's just THAT good.

What did you say to him or her? If you don't mind.

I can't remember exactly, but as I recall in the textbook it said something along the lines of even if a space ship could travel the speed of light then the pilots would be dead before they could reach the nearest inhabitable planet, and she was talking about how ships would have to have many different generations of crew to make these long journeys. I argued that due to relativity a ship could fly to the other end of the universe in the blink of an eye provided it had enough fuel.

 

[helmutlord]

I was at a pretty strict school, and had already received two detentions about not wearing a tie. Next infraction was a Saturday detention - as you can imagine that is a big deal for everyone involved.

I had, of course, lost my tie early in the day by using it to swat wasps over a bin... and, long story short - it ended up in a tree. Yeah...

Anyway, during art class I made a tie out of green paper, string and markers. Somehow the terribly obvious decoy worked. It was four days before I got a new tie and no one noticed.

Also, at Uni my teacher was ranting about the internet - a favourite subject of his.

"Some day I hope to read every page on the internet!" He says.

So I pipe up with "Wow, that is a lot of porn." Class loses it. Subject is changed.

 

[bam13302]

Not exactly, but i often correct my teacher, iv often told teachers that their question was wrong, and i got points back

 

[blindthrall]

Yes. But it was science class in a Catholic school, so I'm not sure it counts.

I know better than to try that shit in college. Every person I've seen try it ended up getting humiliated.

 

[Daveman]

My friend hated English lessons so he scheduled all his music lessons to run over his english classes. Meanwhile our english teacher decided to teach us to only write stuff that matters by making us ask ourselves "so what?" about all the stuff. One day my friend asked to go to his clarinet lesson and our english teacher said "clarinet, so what?" and my friend said "english literature, so what?" immediately back.

twas pwnage.

And our old chemistry teacher had a sign made up of different letters saying "Don't settle for less" so I thought up an anagram and after removing a few letters and a bit of rearranging it said "fondle testes". He didn't notice for like 2 days.

 

[Master_of_Oldskool]

I had to explain to my Biology teacher last year that lemmings don't actually jump off of cliffs.

 

[Jodah]

I got in an argument with one of my professors about whether I was a true Libertarian or not. I am, he posed hypothetical situations where most people would be afraid to give a libertarian response. I was not and he believed me from that point on.

 

[W8NKA]

I was playing an internet game in the libery, then one of the teachers at my school asked if i was alowed to play it, and gave her the correct awnser: "yes, you are alowed to play games as long as you can get on them on the internet, then she started yelling at me, but then the lieberan came along and backed me up. the teacher didnt apoligise, she just gave me an evil look and stormed.
i was told after lunch that she doesn't like being proven wrong.

 

[Pinstar]

It was college. Logic class. Our final had one mother of a proof to do. In my college, we are given a flat 3 hours to complete our finals, but no teacher ever writes a final to use the whole time and the longest I ever took prior was 1 1/2 hours. This one took me the full three.

I was working down from the top, up from the bottom trying to get the proof to meet cleanly in the middle but I couldn't get the two sides to match.

At the end of the exam, I took it up to my teacher and said "I admit defeat, I can't get this to match. The two sides are off by a ~. I'll take the points off, but tell me what was I doing wrong?"

My teacher read over my proof for a moment, looked me in the eye and went "Baaaa"

Now this was not the response I was expecting, so I just gave her a puzzled look. She clarified "I'm feeling very sheepish."

She then put a '~' at the start of the problem "I left that out by mistake"

So she threw out the question and gave me extra credit for having found the mistake.

 

[Dexiro]

Wouldn't call it "outsmarting" but occasionally i correct teachers, and they've always been happy to admit the mistake.

Though i did have one completely crazy teacher who didn't have a damn clue what she was doing, she was easily outsmarted because she always spoke utter bullshit.

Oh and my English teacher had a few slips that she wouldn't admit to. When being told to analyze something she'd randomly pull quotes out of her arse that have nothing to with the story we were analyzing.