Posted on 01/25/2023 9:48:43 PM PST by grundle
1."In 4th grade we were learning about bats. And the teacher asked the class to name as many different types of bats as we could. I raised my hand and said 'Vampire Bats,' and he said 'Name only real ones please.' They are real, and I knew it. But he made me feel like an ass."
2."I got sent to the principal's office for using the word 'plethora.' The teacher thought it was a swear word. So did the principal."
7."That the moon emits light, just like the sun. As a nerdy kid interested in space I told her that it’s actually reflecting the light of the sun, but she did not believe me."
12."That Abraham Lincoln was the first American president. I told her she was wrong, it was George Washington, and she snapped, saying, ‘Well why do you know so much about American politics it is pathetic.’ And all the other kids in my class started making fun of me for being stupid."
13."I was told in no uncertain terms that the match in shape between Africa and South America was coincidental...That is to say: The match between the Western coastline of Africa and the Eastern coastline of South America."
14."Middle school not elementary, but my sixth grade science teacher told the class that sound travels faster than light because 'If a plane is flying overhead, you hear it before you see it!'"
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Back in the spring of 1966, as a freshman in engineering at the University of Wisconsin, I had to “undergo” guidance counseling. It was a vehicle for training sociologist post-grads. There were two interviewers and two interviewees per 8’ table. Sitting next to me was an attractive young co-ed.
My interviewer looked at my papers and said, “You know what your goals and objectives are. We’ll just go through the motions.”
The other interviewer said to the cute co-ed, “Well, you are deficient in math, science and English...your only viable path is Education...to become a teacher.”
My interviewer and I looked at each other and rolled our eyes.
And here we are, nearly 60-years later, paying the price for that mindset!
Don’t be niggardly!
Some teachers are people who enjoy having power over others lives, but weren’t smart enough to become IRS auditors.
When I was in first grade (in the middle of the Cuban missile crisis) our teacher said we would not live long enough to make it to second grade. Fortunately she was wrong!
I before E except after C.
i first questioned “prevailing scientific thought” around 1968 in junior high school science class when i suggested that it looked like south america and africa had fit together at one time ...
the teacher came totally unglued and ranted and raved about how that couldn’t possibly be true, etc., etc ...
it was a gross over-reaction and i wondered why ... at any rate, it was one of the most valuable lessons i learned in school: questioning “authority” provoked unreasonable responses that had to have some kind of hidden motive ...
little did i know then (because the internet didn’t exist and sources of knowledge were extremely restricted) that plate tectonic theory had its beginnings in 1915 when Alfred Wegener proposed his theory of “continental drift.” ...
i now suspect that the teacher knew something about that and believed it was poppycock, as did the rest of “settled science” at that time ...
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17."I remember an elementary school teacher warning us to not accept apples on Halloween, cuz some people put razorblades in them. I mean, wouldn't you see the big fat cut on the apple."
When I was in grade school, people often gave Trick-or-Treators apples with a coin paced inside. When you got an apple you looked for the slit so as to vet to the coin first. Usually it was a penny, but I do remember getting a dime once! Talk about being in tall cotton!!
Treaters
get
SHEESH!!
I thought a Plethora was a dinosaur, just like a Thesaurus.
= = =
Or a Crack-o-don.
LOL!
The biggest idiots are teaching in college.
I'm mildly curious as to what you studied in college.
Or teaching. 😁
Hint: Plate Tectonics
When Alfred Wegener first proposed the idea of continental drift (the precursor idea to plate tectonic theory), it didn’t quite explain the full story. While he correctly showed that Africa and South America fitted together, his model wasn’t able to explain the violent forces that occur around the Earth’s crust.
“Or a Crack-o-don.”
Time for the Likalottapus to raise its head.
“I’m mildly curious as to what you studied in college.”
Engineering. Then Aerospace for 15 years before I started my own business.
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