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My Maths teacher, told me that I would fail at everything in life 🙁
Read a couple of interesting articles a few years back on lying as a way of teaching.
Played with it myself a few times and it's fun. Throw a few totally made-up facts in amongst the good stuff and let your students tell you you're wrong.
Relies on having a few sharp kids in the class though.
slainte 💡 rob
The square route of 12 is 4.
Depends how accurate your slide rule is 😉
The square route of 12 is 4. I ended up in the corridor
I got the same treatment for pointing out that 20% of 5 was 1, and not 1.3 recurring.
My Maths teacher, told me that I would fail at everything in life
In year 7, I was told I'd never make it past year 9.
This is one of my favourite articles on wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions
That wiki article is cool. Just discovered the following...
"Humans have more than five senses. Although definitions vary, the actual number ranges from 9 to more than 20."
My A-Level maths teacher:
"I'm just going to do some photocopying"
...Comes backs at end of lesson stinking of sherry...
"Stars are sparks from the Sun"
The stupid bitch
From my chemistry teacher when I was 15
"You'll never be able do do anything in science, specially not chemistry"
climax vegetation
what a load of bollox
Some of my ex-students still don't believe me that there's a cable under the sea that carries voice and data transmissions.
I also got the "you'll never make it through 6th form" thing.. just about scraped through, went to uni and got a first (albeit in a fairly easy subject).
"Thunder is the sound made by clouds crashing into each other"
I was 3 years old in nursery. TBH, I thought it was quite a good explanation really, and perfect for a small child. I don't think I wooduv got me head round the real reasons for it at that tender age.
Read a couple of interesting articles a few years back on lying as a way of teaching.Played with it myself a few times and it's fun. Throw a few totally made-up facts in amongst the good stuff and let your students tell you you're wrong.
Relies on having a few sharp kids in the class though.
There was a uni lecturer who told his classes that there was one deliberate mistake in every lecture/handout. A 5age of the mark for the course was given for finding the errors before the following week's lecture. (This also had the advantage that any accidental mistakes could be bluffed away.)
GrahamS - Member
Depends how accurate your slide rule is
haha im not that old 😛
"You'll never amount to anything Wyatt!"
Oh, hang on....
Also, "Stick your hands down your shorts and wrap them around your goolies to keep them warm". I understand now that this was neither true nor acceptable but merely a ruse to get some cheap thrills.
All things bright and beautiful all creatures great and small all things wise and wonderfull the lord god made them all. Bollocks
Go into IT, it's where the money is.
Said she didn't draw around her hand with chalk on the front of my textbook even though the whole class had just watched her do it.
Mad as a stick that Miss Housego but very cute too. Later that term she was found in a store cupboard with a 6th former. Apparently she was doing something very different with her hands though.
1. gravity is caused by 'centripetal force'.
2. toothache is indicative of a cavity in the tooth OPPOSITE the side that actually has it due to the proximity of the teeth to the brain, not enough room for the nerves to cross over to the other side.
These were from secondary school teachers! RC school though...
My education was poo! about 13 schools in total due to constant house moves!
My maths teacher said 2 doesnt go into one. I've seen films later in life that prove otherwise.
ransos - Member
Cyclones and anti-cyclones form mainly because of pressure differentials caused by unequal heating of the earth.
...and why does the planet heat up unequally?
...and why does the planet heat up unequally?
Its a postcode lottery
Great topic
I still have my primary school science book containing a write-up of "an experiment to show that ice is heavier then water". To be fair to the teacher, our results had indeed indicated that ice is apparently DENSER than water, but it wasn't until i was 11 years old and we got the Archimedes talk that I realised the teacher had been wrong on more than just a pedantic level.
And my GCSE biology teacher told us that while intercostal muscles lift the ribcage to expand the chest and draw air into the lungs, it is gravity that pulls the ribcage down again to push air out. I got detention for asking how astronauts manage to breathe while in orbit (served me right, smartarse).
something my maths teacher didn't lie about:
"Bright.....you have two speeds....slow and stop"
hit the nail on the head!!
climax vegetationwhat a load of bollox
Why?
...and why does the planet heat up unequally?
It would heat up very unequally if it didn't spin.
anagallis_arvensis - Memberclimax vegetation
what a load of bollox
Why?
because it assumes that climate is fixed and as we all know climate is dynamic, as we go through cycles of eg ice ages etc etc
its all basedd on some romantic notion that england should be covered by gigantic oak trees
surely it just depends opon what what temporal and spatial scale you are considering things?
its all basedd on some romantic notion that england should be covered by gigantic oak trees
oh and this is just wrong, its just someone taking a perfectly good theory and misusing it.
I had a teacher at school who often told me I'd never get a job staring out the window all day.
I'm now an air traffic controller