What did they do that made them so strange?
2006-07-25 13:42:42 · 11 answers · asked by Winnie 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Teaching
I had a reproductive physiology lecturer who would make wooshing or spitting sounds when describing the exit of a bodily fluid...
2006-07-25 13:52:08 · update #1
I had a Spanish teacher in junior high... and we took a field trip toward the end of the year... to Mexico (which was quite close, by the way)
We were supposed to go to a cultural center and that kind of thing, but we ended up... uh... escaping. We were given a chance to go through a commercial area and practice our Spanish on the merchants I'm not sure how she thought this would go smoothly, but whatever. Nobody got lost, and we all came back at the time we were supposed to. No one wanted to be stranded in TJ, after all.
Sooo about half of us got caught at the border trying to bring fireworks and throwing stars and switchblades and stilettos back into the country.
And the other half of us _didn't_ get caught, so we were playing with our fireworks and throwing stars and switchblades and stilettos at school when we got back.
This was before Columbine and 9/11 and all that, so it wasn't as serious as it would be today. Still serious enough for the teacher to get fired, though, obviously.
Too bad. We all had a great time and no one got hurt or anything.
2006-07-25 13:53:16 · answer #1 · answered by Narplex 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In college, I had two pretty awful professors. Coincidentally, they both taught Psych.
As an undergrad I had a professor who was a non-native speaker, which, by itself, would not have been a problem. However, his accent was very difficult to understand (again, not the problem). As he lectured, he would face the board (not the class) writing with his right hand and erasing with his left simultaneously. I am so glad there was an attendance policy! UGH!
In grad school I had another professor who was a strict behaviorist, which is just weird. He would also just make things up and present them as fact. I remember he said once, "The tadpole, which we all know turns into a lizard...." We had no idea what to study for his test: real facts or his "facts." After each thing he said, he would also follow it up by saying, "interesting view." It became a game to see how many times he would say "interesting" during a class.
2006-07-26 10:31:50 · answer #2 · answered by adelinia 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My college literature teacher who would recite Juliet's lines from "Romeo and Juliet" while HE flailed about on his desk top. Yes, I said, HE. He would refer to the boys as "eunuchs", tell the girls he'd rather sleep with his dog than a woman, and tell African Americans to go back to the cotton fields. He came to class on Shakespeare's birthday with a birthday cake....he sliced it, ate it, put the rest back in the bakery box then walked out without ever saying a word. Another professor FINALLY heard him call a student a "black b!t*h" and he was placed on leave. After all the appeals he was eventually let go. This was at a small college in Southwest Georgia in the 80's.
2006-07-25 21:43:43 · answer #3 · answered by "GO" is my middle name 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had 2. The first was consumer ed. She talked to us as if she were big bird talking to 3 year olds. Her voice would be high and soft. Always smiling and making her eyes big and dramatic.
The other was my Spanish teacher. She was great, but she would joke about eating gin with her cheerios before coming to class
2006-07-27 01:29:44 · answer #4 · answered by hambone1985 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In college I had a professor who was teaching a class in Death and Dying. Everyday he would come in the class and talk about how great it would be to die today. I have no idea, why I took this class except I wanted a blow off class. He was a very strange dude....
2006-07-25 20:48:00 · answer #5 · answered by 345Grasshopper 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mr. Niclaus was my 7th grade science teacher. He tries to act cool and says sayings like "swell" and "sound by the pound." It's scary and then he says "yo." He's a bald old guy who was originally from New Jersey. Don't worry he's back there again, but if you live there, Beware. "Where's my sugar-free jello?? I NEED my sugar-free jello!!" He said that for a demo he was doing. He obviously couldn't find the sugar-free jello.
2006-07-25 20:48:35 · answer #6 · answered by Jackie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had a speech professor in College.
The guy was a genious, but he was about 50 years old and had never moved out of his house.
He spent his time trying to convince me that Alaska was going to be invaded by Russia.
Kind of a wacko, but he sure would have kicked a*s as Jeopardy.
2006-07-25 20:48:29 · answer #7 · answered by Slider728 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My HS Geometry teacher was the weirdest. After lessons, she would...clog for the class.
What made her strange? Don't know, but she should have been sharing it with the rest of us.
2006-07-25 20:54:16 · answer #8 · answered by GoElvis 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had a college professor that would never look directly at the class, only at the floor, which he paced constantly while murmuring. The only time he would look up is while writing on the chalk board.
2006-07-25 20:46:55 · answer #9 · answered by Lovely H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A high school literature teacher. She would tell us about her visits with a fortune teller and that they always told her she would die soon. She committed suicide a few years after I graduated.
To Grape Ape: Where was that? I think I know him!!
2006-07-25 23:47:56 · answer #10 · answered by wolfmusic 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋