I had a teacher who claimed that dinosaurs weren’t real. She said that people just naturally love patterns so when we find random bones we arrange them into shapes we like. Someone in the class said what about skulls that are just one bone and she ignored it lol.
That was many years ago and it’s still stuck in my memory as one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard.
Wow that’s wild. The thing that bothers me most about shit like this is that a good teacher would put aside their pride and take it as an opportunity to learn something themselves and show the class how to find out an answer to a question like this. Instead, you’ll always remember her as the dumbass who didn’t know what fossils are.
I told my students to go flux themselves today
I had an intro to sociology prof spend an entire lecture on full blown anti vax conspiracy shit.
Also had a bio prof take 5 during an anatomy lecture to give a teary eyed plea for the young women in class to not ruin one of the ‘fundamental joys of motherhood’ by getting their nipples pierced.
Would have been great if the student said “yes but it will increase another fundamental joy, one that lasts longer than the breastfeeding stage of infants”
30 seconds of googling shows me that women can still breastfeed with nipple piercings. I would question any of the info he gave me about anatomy.
I wrote a paper on the origin of the y chromesome in biology class in college and the professor docked me points with the note written in the margins “I don’t think humans and papayas have a common ancestor.”
then how do you explain the y in papaya? checkmate professor
I forget if it was on the day or day after, but while the events of 9/11 were unfolding or coming to light I had a social studies teacher claim the plane that crashed in the field was an attack on our agriculture.
Remember when that stray bullet hit the side of that Honda? That was a clear attack on the american plexiglas industry
My high school chem teacher, while explaining soap micelles, went on a tangent saying that we don’t really need soap to wash ourselves and that he personally never used soap while bathing, I liked that teacher but TMI and gross.
Had a substitute teacher once who thought that the word Hell was a bad word even when referring to the location.
Only boring people get bored.
Utter nonsense but it was said to my boy by a junior school teacher. Was an interesting conversation when I talked to her at parent teacher day.
Sounds like the words of a boring teacher who’s incapable of meaningful self-reflection as to what they could maybe improve upon
I had a teacher during sex ed start yelling about how you gotta work on and please your lady not a “wham bam thank you ma’am”, his words. Now not in 7th grade sex ed it wouldn’t have been so weird. Same teacher had a diabetic fit and started yelling and writing E over and over while grading our tests.
conspiracy theories involving aliens creating mankind, basically Ancient Aliens lore unironically like one in three lectures was talk about the process and how we must vibrate into some higher realm
Now, that’s cool stuff. Much better than teachers parroting religious stuff.
Biomedical engineering professor teaching an entire course on how DNA in its natural state is not actually a double helix and that Watson and Crick were wrong. The guy spent decades of his career after getting tenure pushing this crusade of his. It was a great class and I loved it.
interesting, do you have any research papers about this?
That all women should be in the kitchen and all black people should be slaves again.
Was a very interesting English class from a black woman…
History teacher told us that NASA found alien machines on the dark side of the moon.
Midway through his speech he fell asleep in his seated walker, woke up shortly after and then the been rang.
He was neither physically nor mentally fit to be a teacher.
A middle school teacher asked for an analogy about something, I don’t remember what specifically, but I raised my hand and excitedly said “Oh! Like how math can help you understand music and music can help you understand math?”
The teacher looked at me like I was a total fool and said “music has absolutely nothing to do with math, how could you possibly think that?”
Since I was a snarky little punk, and I knew I was right, I said “have you heard about the circle of fifths? Let me tell you about it” and I proceeded to explain the mathematical beauty of music to the entire class. I even had sheet music in my bag from my piano lessons, so I pulled it out and showed it to everyone to explain the bars, tempo, and time signature, all of which are based on mathematical principles.
She was not happy to be proven wrong in front of a class of fifth graders.
music has things that can be described mathematically in ways that are largely historical, but not axiomatic in a math sense. but if learning music helps you learn math and/or visa versa, power to you.
Lol. Pythagoras - considered one of the gods to maths teachers - explicitly talked about the mathematical beauty of music. Where was this person trained?
Goood question. I hadn’t thought about her in ages, but it’s funny how random memories of her class are coming back now. She was a shitty teacher, she clearly didn’t want to be there.
5th grade biology teacher explaining to me why teleportation is bad, referencing that Cronenberg movie with the fly
Teachers loved telling you about shit they saw in movies and passing it off as wisdom
my 7th grade biology teacher dedicated a lesson to why evolution was false and her base argument was that she never evolved in her entire life, therefore evolution was false.
i suspect that a majority of the students agreed w her.
Never seen that movie, but wouldn’t teleportation just kill you from the demolecularzation or whatever?
In the movie it did worse: mangle you on reassembly because a fly got in the teleporter with you
