<p>you have teachers who are dumber than you???? especially English teachers that can't write...</p>
<p>You’re totally not arrogant lol</p>
<p>It’s not arrogance. It’s the truth for a lot of people. I don’t have that problem because our honors teachers are really smart. However there are teachers in the school that I think are not as bright as me</p>
<p>^ I had a Spanish teacher who knew a lot less than I did, but then again my mom is a Spanish teacher in Mexico and I am fluent and such</p>
<p>and he probably learned it as a second language, so it’s ok</p>
<p>What I dislike is when teachers do doublespeak at times-- not when teaching, but when you might have “face-time” with them (one on one discussions). I dislike it when a teacher would think that they are superior then you are. One of my teachers graduated from UPenn years ago and currently pursuing another degree at Villanova. What irks me about the teacher is when she thinks that she is superior over her AP English students (don’t know if it’s the same for other courses she teaches).</p>
<p>I don’t have a problem with teachers who are perhaps less smart than me, I have a problem with teachers who are less smart than me yet act like they are smarter than me.</p>
<p>my regular pre-calc teacher is really not too bright+treats us all like we’re little kids. does anyone else get homework slips & lectures on ‘when you’re in college, not doing your math homework will not fly’…um, excuse me, WHAT?! haha.</p>
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This is the most pervasive BS. I’ve been told that so many times “in (insert whatever grade is in two years), (insert behavior) won’t be allowed.”</p>
<p>In high school, in non-honors classes, kids screw around even more than they did before.</p>
<p>And in college you usually don’t have to do your homework or even show up for class.</p>
<p>haha, yeah. i come from honors, so i get easy As in that class & don’t even need to do the homework. so i either copy answers from the back or sometimes i forget to. so i have to hear her homework lectures about how my grade should be higher [i have one of the highest averages out of all of her classes]. HELLO, the reason my grade is so “low” is because undone homework lower my grade UNNECESSARILY. so she’s annoying on top of that.</p>
<p>lol. ~end rant~</p>
<p>It annoys me when the teacher acts like they are a genius made to profligate <em>their subject</em> when they really have no idea what they’re doing…</p>
<p>This is somewhat related… </p>
<p>There was this video clip I saw on youtube from an old Who Wants to be a Millionaire episode and there was a science teacher on and he had this question:</p>
<p>Which of the following is true about the melting point of ice and the freezing point of water?
a. The melting point is higher.
b. They are the same.
c. They vary depending on volume.
b. The freezing point is higher.</p>
<p>Now this person, who apparently is a science teacher, had to use the ask the audience life line to answer this question. What’s wrong with our education system?</p>
<p>I SAW THAT MILLIONAIRE!!!
that was like an ultimate fail</p>
<p>Yup.
I had a history teacher who said that Lincoln just looooved blacks and wanted them to be free.
He also wasn’t sure what Pearl Harbor Day was.</p>
<p>I had a teacher who claimed to know everything about the human mid</p>
<p>it was crazy lame</p>
<p>I had a physics teacher who insisted that Hooke’s law was F = kx and couldn’t understand why it should be F = -kx.</p>
<p>your physics teacher is right in the sense that it is not necessary to do the actual problem. You are right technically right. It seriously can be done both ways though</p>
<p>Seriously according to my physics teacher, if you can’t tell direction you shouldn’t be in this class so we just do it without the negative. It is common knowledge that spring bounces back to its equilibrium position.</p>
<p>My math teacher last year had to take the math test to get her certification like all certified teachers do whether they teach english, art, science, etc and she had to take it 3 times before she could pass.</p>
<p>hahaaha, some of you guys, come on…</p>
<p>out of the hundreds of things teachers are required to state as fact per week, they’re bound to be wrong about one or two. and you’re bound to know the correct answer. one or two – or even several – incidents do not make you more knowledgeable than your teachers.</p>
<p>and as for intelligence as opposed to knowledge: in my opinion, it’s pretty arrogant to judge others’ intelligence definitively unless you know them very well. and even then, there’s a significant measure of arbitrariness. most people are intelligent by their own definitions of intelligence. i could be inclined to consider myself more intelligent than my, say, science teachers who use poor grammar – but i keep in mind that they’re far better at science than i ever will be, in all probability. in fact, my grammar is probably better than my english teacher’s, but i don’t know enough about her writing skills or literary comprehension skills to deem myself more linguistically intelligent.</p>
<p>Some of the teacher-coaches I’ve had are pretty atrocious.</p>
<p>My English teacher edits the rough drafts of my essays horribly.</p>