Ever have a teacher like this?

So....the teacher gave the student one whole hour of detention because the student, instead of being respectful to his teacher, was a disruptive brat? And the teacher dared to suggest that the student not disrupt the class a melodramatic outburst?

And it happened twelve years ago.

Oh the horror! Doomed, we are! DOOOOOOOMED!

I've been in the same position as Alex Whatshisface. I've noticed something a teacher said wasn't correct and I said something in class. I was wrong to do that and the teacher met me after class to let me know just that. What I should have done was to go to the teacher after class and show them what the right answer was and give them the opportunity to correct the mistake. It wasn't my place to interrupt the lesson and show up the teacher in class.
 
Reminds of this bit,from Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory...

"Of course you don't know. You don't know because only I know. If you knew and I didn't know, then you'd be teaching me instead of me teaching you - and for a student to be teaching his teacher is presumptuous and rude. Do I make myself clear?"
 
This is why the metric system should be abolished. Avoid the confusion. Long live the mile!
 
a smart teacher would produce a book/web page/evidence that s/he was right.

we're supposed to be encouraging our kids to question, think for themselves and understand.

that teacher should be training parrots.
 
Indoctrinate them early. Facts are malleable. Accept authority without question. Most importantly, don't argue for what's right in public.
 
Dolf- parrots are too smart to fall for that shit.

They'd squawk, "Mile is longer, mile is longer, brawk!"

That teacher is a fucking moron. Has no business being in a position of authority....you can tell by reading that letter that the wielding of authority and the POWER is more important than the process of learning. That's a teacher that's an embarrassment to the species.
 
Malachi said:
Indoctrinate them early. Facts are malleable. Accept authority without question. Most importantly, don't argue for what's right in public.
*goose steps*
 
Hopefully Alex grows up to be a lawyer (he seemed to have the good makings of one) and ends up having to bail Mr. Dickhead out of some kind of trouble down the road.
 
even though this is marked of 94, several years ago, i question the athenticity of this.

How ever, depending on the cercimstances of the lesson maybe the child Was wrong. since it is kind of taken out of context so we are not sure of the cercimstances. improper word choice and the presentation of one side only further skewer this.

-for instance.
IF for teaching purpouses in experementation or mathmatics:
1 kilometer = 1000 Meters
1 Mile = 1000 Yard
and
1 meter = 3.3 feet
1 yard = 3 feet

then mathmaticly 1 km>1 Mile
and though, his statement is correct, 1 mile is apoxmatly 1601 meters (where as a kilometer is 1000) if the teacher put up a hypothetical for purpouse of exprementation, then the child outwardly defys that, then the child would be in the wrong.

but again, we need the context to gauge this.
 
Pyro Paul said:
even though this is marked of 94, several years ago, i question the athenticity of this.

How ever, depending on the cercimstances of the lesson maybe the child Was wrong. since it is kind of taken out of context so we are not sure of the cercimstances. improper word choice and the presentation of one side only further skewer this.

-for instance.
IF for teaching purpouses in experementation or mathmatics:
1 kilometer = 1000 Meters
1 Mile = 1000 Yard
and
1 meter = 3.3 feet
1 yard = 3 feet

then mathmaticly 1 km>1 Mile
and though, his statement is correct, 1 mile is apoxmatly 1601 meters (where as a kilometer is 1000) if the teacher put up a hypothetical for purpouse of exprementation, then the child outwardly defys that, then the child would be in the wrong.

but again, we need the context to gauge this.
Your posts make my eyes bleed.
 
Byron In Exile said:
P.S. Anybody know when Adam Hil- I mean, Adolf Hitler's birthday is?
Yeah, I should have googled it - not sure whether this was a fake/urban myth or not.

JMJ - it depends on the type of class. In college, at least the one I went to, most teachers encouraged students to question and/or point out when the teacher made a mistake - during the lecture - in a polite and appropriate way of course.

Two separate issues: being polite and being authoritarian. Personally I would rather be right and rude than authoritarian and wrong. There is no reason you can't be right and polite.
 
Pyro Paul said:
even though this is marked of 94, several years ago, i question the athenticity of this.

How ever, depending on the cercimstances of the lesson maybe the child Was wrong. since it is kind of taken out of context so we are not sure of the cercimstances. improper word choice and the presentation of one side only further skewer this.

-for instance.
IF for teaching purpouses in experementation or mathmatics:
1 kilometer = 1000 Meters
1 Mile = 1000 Yard
and
1 meter = 3.3 feet
1 yard = 3 feet

then mathmaticly 1 km>1 Mile
and though, his statement is correct, 1 mile is apoxmatly 1601 meters (where as a kilometer is 1000) if the teacher put up a hypothetical for purpouse of exprementation, then the child outwardly defys that, then the child would be in the wrong.

but again, we need the context to gauge this.
Yes, and black is actually white, Scotty. Also, 1+1=3.
 
Pyro Paul said:
even though this is marked of 94, several years ago, i question the athenticity of this.

How ever, depending on the cercimstances of the lesson maybe the child Was wrong. since it is kind of taken out of context so we are not sure of the cercimstances. improper word choice and the presentation of one side only further skewer this.

-for instance.
IF for teaching purpouses in experementation or mathmatics:
1 kilometer = 1000 Meters
1 Mile = 1000 Yard
and
1 meter = 3.3 feet
1 yard = 3 feet

then mathmaticly 1 km>1 Mile
and though, his statement is correct, 1 mile is apoxmatly 1601 meters (where as a kilometer is 1000) if the teacher put up a hypothetical for purpouse of exprementation, then the child outwardly defys that, then the child would be in the wrong.

but again, we need the context to gauge this.
The teacher has admitted being incorrect, you wingnut. A kilometer is NEVER a longer distance than a mile. The context is reality.

Meanwhile, I have highlighted a number of unusual spellings which may be correct if for the purposes of argument 1 Mile = 1000 Yard.
 
Malachi said:
Yes, and black is actually white, Scotty. Also, 1+1=3.

yes, a Black item is acctually white because it Absorbs all light, this is a reverse theory really which is quite intresting- Much like how if you Sit Grass Under Green Lights, the grass will Die, because it reflects Green and absorbs all others, there for Grass is acctually Purple (the Light-Color mixture of Red and Blue).Using this logic, a black item is Acctual White because it Absorbs No colour where as White, which reflects all light, is acctually black.
 
I had nuns from the phillipines teaching me english from 1-6th grade..damn I am lucky I dont have an accent
 
Pyro Paul said:
yes, a Black item is acctually white because it Absorbs all light, this is a reverse theory really which is quite intresting- Much like how if you Sit Grass Under Green Lights, the grass will Die, because it reflects Green and absorbs all others, there for Grass is acctually Purple (the Light-Color mixture of Red and Blue).Using this logic, a black item is Acctual White because it Absorbs No colour where as White, which reflects all light, is acctually black.
You seem to be counting on the notion that idiocy is actually intelligence. Good luck with that.
 
Pyro Paul said:
even though this is marked of 94, several years ago, i question the athenticity of this.

How ever, depending on the cercimstances of the lesson maybe the child Was wrong. since it is kind of taken out of context so we are not sure of the cercimstances. improper word choice and the presentation of one side only further skewer this.

-for instance.
IF for teaching purpouses in experementation or mathmatics:
1 kilometer = 1000 Meters
1 Mile = 1760 Yards <<
and
1 meter = 3.3 feet
1 yard = 3 feet

then mathmaticly 1 km>1 Mile
and though, his statement is correct, 1 mile is apoxmatly 1601 meters (where as a kilometer is 1000) if the teacher put up a hypothetical for purpouse of exprementation, then the child outwardly defys that, then the child would be in the wrong.

but again, we need the context to gauge this.
Just in case anyone was wondering
 
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