Smarter than the Teacher?

[Linksquest]

Have you ever been in a situation where you corrected a teacher because they said something wrong? Or... have you known that they were wrong, but remained silent? Or... have you known more about a subject than the teacher teaching it?

[SnoringFrog]

Yes, both of the first two, not the last one. One of my grammar teacher's would always correct us when we said something wrong, so it was always fun to catch her speaking incorrectly, she was nice, and she didn't mind us correcting her as long as we did it respectfully. One of our other teacher's misspoke once, so someone corrected her. The teacher got kinda upset because she didn't believe she had actually misspoken, from then on, I just let whatever mistakes she made that I happened to catch go.

[meboeck]

I had an English teacher who would ask me questions about grammer because she realized I knew it better than she did. I had a math teacher who gave extra participation points to people who corrected him because it was a calculus class and it was very easy to make mistakes.

[Hephzibah]

I had a maths teacher (Excellent guy mind you.. he was brilliant) who made occassional mistakes. He didn't mind us correcting him, though every time we did he said the same funny speech about how this is why we should be careful in exams to not make silly mistakes

[K. Ayato]

Yes. In my Learning & Motivation class while completing my degree requirements. My professor quoted a famous person and said it was by a fellow named B.F. Skinner. I thought it over for a few seconds and said outloud that I believed it was a man named John Watson, and not Skinner, who said what the professor quoted. Next class meeting I came early and saw him, and he pulled me aside and said "You know what? You were right. It was John Watson."

[Slater]

Yes. This happens a lot in my Java class because the teacher likes to mix things up with C++

[Linksquest]

Yes. This happens a lot in my Java class because the teacher likes to mix things up with C++

I get those mixed up all the time too!

XD

[Mr. SmartyPants]

Yes. This happens a lot in my Java class because the teacher likes to mix things up with C++

well im my school, they switched from C++ to Java because the college board decided to make all the AP tests into Java instead... so my teacher had to change her whole curriculum

[Warrior4Christ]

In year 12 maths, there were a few times where I found errors in the textbook or what the teacher wrote. I was well known for saying during year 12, "the book's wrong!" (I said this whenever the book's answers didn't agree with mine - sometimes it was right, sometimes not ).
Also, the computing teacher in high school wasn't trained in computing, so I regularly did things she didn't know how to do.

[The Grammarian]

Yes to all three. Teachers aren't perfect, after all, but sometimes I don't think it's worth correcting.

As an aside, I find it ironic when people can't spell "grammar" properly.

EDIT: put "grammar" in quotation marks

[Mr. SmartyPants]

Also, the computing teacher in high school wasn't trained in computing, so I regularly did things she didn't know how to do.

same thing with my 9th grade computer teacher... she was also horribly mean... she yelled at a boy because the computer had a driver error with one of the usb mice. The boy had a blue screen (driver error) so he rose his hand, saying his computer went wacko. Then the teacher gets out of her seat, and walked up to the boy, and shouted at him: "YOURE SUPPOSED TO UNPLUG IT! TURN OFF THE COMPUTER, PLUG IT BACK IN! THEN TURN THE COMPUTER BACK ON!!!!! I TOLD YOU GUYS THIS A MILLION TIMES!!!"

but she actually never once told us that x_x

[Shao Feng-Li]

Well, in scocial studies... "10 gazzilion years ago, before man..." I just kept quiet...

[blkmage]

We had a business teacher teaching information technology in Grade 9 and said stuff like how the fax machine was a computer peripheral and the scanner uses a modem to convert analog signals into digital signals and that the Internet and the web were the same thing. Horrible class.

[Linksquest]

We had a business teacher teaching information technology in Grade 9 and said stuff like how the fax machine was a computer peripheral and the scanner uses a modem to convert analog signals into digital signals and that the Internet and the web were the same thing. Horrible class.

@.@... "I know he said something smart.... i just know it... " XD

[Kiba-kun]

i have yet to take the class but i already know that i know more about alchemy than the chemistry teacher. and no i did not get all my information from FMA, i'm actually doing research on the subject.

and i know a bit more about the chinese culture than my history teacher but not to much more

[Syaoran]

I have my days...

[Ingemar]

I'm gonna be a TA starting Friday. I don't mind being corrected, but I feel embarrassed for hours afterwards.

I once had a teacher that mispronounced "thesaurus" as "thesarsus." Besides that, I've had math profs who made miniscule errors in arithmetic. I guess if you deal with higher level maths for a long time, your skills in simple things like division get rusty.

[Kaligraphic]

Yes to all three.

I've been in a Linux class that I could have taught better than the instructor did. Of course, to be fair, he had had to develop the course on little notice, had to start learning Linux himself for the course, and then found out that he had to use a different flavour of Linux from the one he'd learned and designed the course around. I figure it was more the administration that failed there than the instructor.

I didn't do most of the correcting there, save a couple of rather important points. There was a Slackware enthusiast, though, who felt it was important to correct a lot of the smaller points.

[~Natsumi Lam~]

yes

~NL~

[TurkishMonky]

aye.... I work with web page developing in asp.net, but am required to take all these computer programming courses for my degree.... Oh well, i can quote the loading sequence to an ASP.net page from memory, access and write complex sql databases, and write complicated validation scripts... but in class i'm learning how to do a loop in c++. hmmm...

[Linksquest]

Today in english class our long term substitute teacher was talking to us about the history of the english language and why it was important and stuff. Then she asked us why it would be important to study Greek. I said "Because the New Testament was written in Greek and scholars study the original Scriptures" Then she was all "Not just the new testament... the old testament as well..." I was like "o.O!"

I said "The Old testament was written in Hebrew..."
She said "NO. It was written in Greek."

o.O!!! I just let it go after that... i was like... scared...


So she's saying that moses spoke Greek?

[Mr. SmartyPants]

Today in english class our long term substitute teacher was talking to us about the history of the english language and why it was important and stuff. Then she asked us why it would be important to study Greek. I said "Because the New Testament was written in Greek and scholars study the original Scriptures" Then she was all "Not just the new testament... the old testament as well..." I was like "o.O!"

I said "The Old testament was written in Hebrew..."
She said "NO. It was written in Greek."

o.O!!! I just let it go after that... i was like... scared...


So she's saying that moses spoke Greek?

Are you serious? Wow... that makes no sense, Isrealites speaking greek... haha

[Puguni]

XD My Math teacher did something like that. He told us why the Greeks didn't use normal English letters. It was because English people didn't live near them. I thought it was so amusing that I didn't say anything.

I also remember a quote that my Latin teacher told me another teacher somewhere else said: "If English is good enough for Jesus, then it's good enough for me!"

[Linksquest]

XD My Math teacher did something like that. He told us why the Greeks didn't use normal English letters. It was because English people didn't live near them. I thought it was so amusing that I didn't say anything.

I also remember a quote that my Latin teacher told me another teacher somewhere else said: "If English is good enough for Jesus, then it's good enough for me!"

ROFL. Cause Jesus was so English! XDDD i also think its interesting in all of the paintings i have seen of Jesus... he's all "Caucasion-fied"... he is not ENGLISH!!!!!!! blow-dried hair. XD

[Corkyspaniel]

Have you ever been in a situation where you corrected a teacher because they said something wrong? Or... have you known that they were wrong, but remained silent? Or... have you known more about a subject than the teacher teaching it?

[color=Plum]My English teacher is a sweet woman, but you can tell she's from the south! The funny thing is that she knows possesive and subject and object, but when it comes to common sense grammar, she "ain't" got a clue. ]

[Aileen Kailum]

Yes to the second question. I had a physics teacher who kept misspelling "velocity" when she wrote it on the board. I sat through the entire class thinking, "I'm pretty sure "velocity" doesn't have an "s" in it."

[Radical Dreamer]

Gravedug'd!

And yes, I have corrected a teacher. Only this year, though, in English IV. See, my English teacher this year basically shouldn't have been teaching. He didn't know disrespectful was a word. o_o But that's not what I corrected, that's what someone else corrected. XD I corrected him when he took points off on one of my essays because he put commas in horrendous places (examples: I went, to school today. I went to school so, that I could learn.), said that words were spelled wrong when they really weren't, and at least one more thing that I forgot. XD It was pretty much awful.

Needless to say, they fired him earlier in the year. XD

[Azier the Swordsman]

When I first started learning Japanese, I had a few newbish misconceptions about how certain words and phrases work. One time, while talking to a fluent speaker, I "corrected" her Japanese without thinking. Once I caught myself it was rather embarrasing.

[KhakiBlueSocks]

Once in middle school, the teacher (Social Studies) was talking about the Titanic, and he argued me down about what was her official title: he thought the official name was "H.M.S" (Her Magesty's Ship) Titanic.

When I corrected him and told him that the appropriate name was "R.M.S" (Royal Mail Steamer) Titanic, he jumped down my throat and told me I was "WRONG, WRONG, WRONG!" and "Don't argue with me about history"! That next day, I ran into him in the hallway, and he said "Joshua, I'm sorry...you were right, it WAS R.M.S Titanic. He even apologized to me in front of the class and corrected himself!

[SnoringFrog]

Our English teacher this year isn't that great, she can't pronounce words right, even when they've got the pronounciation key right there. I don't bother correcting her, I'll just let the peoepl who can't figure it out get ti wrong on their tests, I don't care.

Once, she tried to tell us 'lover' was an adjective and 'lovely' was an adverb, when they should be noun and adjective, respectively. And there's one error, although I can't recal what it was exactly, that she kept takign points off my friends' papers for that shouldn't have been an error. I'm thinking that might have had somethign to do with where punctuation goes along with quotation marks, which is a rule that is being changed somewhat, just not in the textbooks I've seen. FOr instance, our book says that the first of these two is right, but I normally use the second.

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Today we read a poem called "A Vagabond Song."

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TOday we read a poem called "A Vagabond Song".

I say the period only goes inside the quotes only when it applies to the quoted matter which is how I've seen itmost places online, but the book says otherwise, so I change it.

And the same thing again involving two sets of quotes:

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Joe said, "Today we read a poem called 'A Vagabond Song.'"

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Joe said, "Today we read a poem called 'A Vagabond Song'."

EDIT: Again, the first being what the book would tell me to do, the secodn being what I've seen used most often. The period would be placed outside the single quotes because it is not part of the poem's title, but inside the double quotes because it does apply to the spoken sentence.