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.
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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
My chemistry teacher didn't understand why consumers complain about pesticides, since she claimed you could just rinse them off easily (which isn't entirely accurate). She got cancer shortly after.
My anatomy and physiology teacher told the class he believed the entire Middle East should be nuked, after showing the wikipedia article on Ross Perot and talking about how the country is in decline because Perot lost the presidential election.
He also body shamed women during class, and told women that if they are behind on cooking dinner they can just throw some garlic and onion in a pan and their husbands would smell the good aromas and not know any better.
He also required students to dance and he video recorded every dance, this was not optional and had nothing to do with the curriculum, but it was treated very seriously like an end-of-class thesis. It doesn't take much of an imagination to worry about what he was doing with those video tapes. This was at the same high school where it turns out one of the coaches was molesting the students.
I thought you were talking about college instructors until you mentioned high school... especially because you referred to "women" instead of girls...
Ah good point, this was like junior or senior year, I guess I thought of them as women.
The only agreeable thing here is that sautéed garlic and onions are yummy. The rest is some serious 😬
I had a teacher who believed that the moon landing was fake.
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.
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
college instructor for Communication 101 went on several unprompted rants about how depression wasn't real because it couldn't be detected with brain scans
even though it, uh, absolutely can? also nobody asked you anyway dude???
I bet this person called themselves a Christian.
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.
reminds me of my biology teacher who before teaching us evolution explained that she is being forced to teach it against her will so we can pass tests, but that she disagrees with it and that we shouldn't feel pressured to actually believe evolution ... this woman was teaching my AP biology class in senior year of high school, and previously had worked in the medical field and retired as a teacher
obviously Christianity was involved
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.
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.
I remember in High School where we were pressured into having to choose a political party for our US Government class.
Yeah I thought the 2-party system was stupid then too and absolutely refused to pick a side. It was clear to me then, even as a teen, that people’s opinions change over time as they themselves change. Party loyalty is bullshit.
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
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
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.
Had a history teacher insiste that people can't live without clothes on. As in, you actually fucking due quickly after getting naked.
To be "fair" I think that it was more a case of her being mad that I corrected her "pyramid of needs" than her defending her actual opinion.
Maslow is overrated.
Is he/it? I have to wonder if this is one of those "The Beatles are overrated" kinds of opinions
Well speaking as a queer person I and many of my friends have had the pyramid cited to us to show why we would always be unhappy. The hierarchy is not an entirely flawed concept and in the broadest of strokes I agree with it. Which is why I only say it's overrated, not inherently wrong. The hierarchy just falls apart rather quickly for GSM folks while being taken as fact by the general population.
I'm familiar with the hierarchy, but I'm failing to see how or why it would be used to say that queer people would always be unhappy. What's that all about?
I'm queer myself and wondering the dame tbh.
Unless it's through a wrongful reading of it being a hierarchy of needs to be happy instead of a hierarchy of needs for a correct life.
Either that or it's a thinly veiled threat like "see, you need other's acceptance and security, and you'll never have those", but I doubt that this is what the other person meant
The need for social belonging is exactly why there are gay communities. And the internet! Haha
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