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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I taught high school engineering drawing topics for sixteen years. I was usually able to convince Freshmen that ice is not frozen water - it’s a vegetable that grows on water in the Winter to keep it from freezing.
I’m pretty sure I had read that in Mad Magazine long ago.
Had a college professor who took me to task because I had used the word “transpired” instead of “happened.” He did not think the two words were synonyms. Did not argue for the sake of my grade.
Gone, Just like writing Cursive.
The dumming down of the general populace continues unimpeded.
It is hard to loose face to someone who is 12 or younger when you is a univesity gradieutte.
My fourth grade teacher insisted that only red blood cells were made in bone marrow because that was what the answer key said. She refused to look in the text book. I didn’t back down from wanting her to look in the text book, and she sent me to the Principal’s office. while the Principal didn’t explicitly back me against the teacher, at least in front o fthe teacher, I ended up being given a book to read.
Unwittingly, the teacher taught me an extremely valuable lesson: don’t accept what a teacher says merely because a teacher says it. At some point, years later, I realized what she had taught me, and became grateful for the experience.
The cursive thing and the “no late papers thing” are both things that I have more or less seen.
Laurasia and Godwana were the two continents whose breakup at the end of the Permian caused the greatest mass extinction. Later S America split from Africa several millions of y ears before the Chicxulub meteor wiped out the dinosaurs and other life forms. A survivor of the Chicxulub meteor was a primate, curiously named Purgatorious, supposedly a Human ancestor, 67.3 million years ago
I am as disgusted as anyone over the current state of education, but these examples sound ridiculous, and therefore, fishy. Unprovable anecdotal claims.
I had a teacher who took the time to teach me the definition of the word “plethora”. It meant a lot to me.
Maybe you were just blessed by better teachers than many have had.
They sound both plausible and memorable — and indeed were remembered.
That’s still a theory... What’s under the oceans? Land covered by water.
Same here.
In the 70’s they said that the world was entering another glacial period. Now they say the opposite, and I suspect in another decade or so they will be teaching global cooling again.
My geography instructor at the university told the class that things are lighter on the Moon because there's no atmosphere to "hold things down." The dumbass actually thought that it was air pressure that "holds things down."
Regards,
I noticed the puzzle fit of Africa and South America in second grade, but teachers back then taught reading and writing, not continental drift.
Gondwanaland.
So the teacher claimed that, in Wyoming before 1920, women were allowed only to vote; they weren't allowed to, e.g., go swimming or bake cakes?
Or did the teacher claim that only in Wyoming were women allowed to vote prior to 1920?
Regards,
Good thing he didn’t use “niggardly.”
There was the math teacher who wouldn’t let me ask about non-coplanar, non-parallel lines, told me they were parallel because they don’t intersect, now be quiet.
She knew what skew lines were, she just didn’t want to confuse the class.
No, that is a gross oversimplification / distortion of the truth.
The ocean floors do not simply represent submerged continental land.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seafloor_spreading
Regards,
Buzzfeed, lifted directly from askreddit. A common practice for them.
True, that!
Regards,
” Lift up your feet, when you reach the end of an escalator you will be sliced up like Bologna”
My Dad...
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