Describe the most insane teacher you ever had!?

Question

I'm a teacher myself, but I love a good 'bad teacher' story! Hee hee!

Answer 1

i had an environmental ethics teacher in college. very cool guy, total hippie. he was in the middle of his doctoral thesis, and as the semester went onward, we could see him getting more and frazzled. he had this really crappy old VW Bug, with holes in the floorboards. one day he was on the highway, and the windows were open....ALL of our midterm papers were sucked out and strewn all over the highway.

Several class periods in, he began asking us "Why don't you guys ever talk? Why am I the only one talking??" He proceeded to ask this every class period, but we never increased talking, and he never talked less. One day he'd decided he had enough, so he stopped talking, and we all stared at each other for 1 and 1/2 hours in complete silence. Then got up and left when class was over.

Finally, the crowning moment....he was smoking a lot because he was stressed about the thesis. So every 30 minutes or so he would step out for a cigarette. Well, he was also quite poor and very cheap, so he would smoke half the cigarette and save the other half for later. He would put it in this very "collegiate" type blazer. So one time we noticed his jacket was smoking. It continued to smoke until it started to flame. Finally someone told him and he ran out like someone being attacked by bees. From the corner windows, we could see him running back and forth between the bushes, slapping his coat on trees. Finally he came back in and proceeded to lecture...and the coat caught on fire AGAIN!!!! It was incredible.

By the last class, he had finished his thesis, and instead of class, he took us all out for beers to apologize for his insane antics...and to celebrate his new Ph.D!!

Answer 2

He was a college professor who taught Educational Research Methods. He never really taught! He would attempt to "explain" extremely difficult research methods and statistics by telling us "stories" about his life. People just sat there dumbfounded! One day, I raised my hand and was the only person brave enough to say, "Um... excuse me, but you've been rambling on for hours about nothing. What exactly is going to be on your tests?" People in the class came up to me afterwords and thanked me for vocalizing EVERYONE's frustration!

He never used visuals, never suggested reading material, and never really modeled anything. I had to pay exorbitant amounts of money for a TA to tutor me in the course.

He also had an OUTRAGEOUS policy that if anyone got below a ninety percent on any exam or quiz, they would automatically fail the course. The man was truly INSANE! Ironically, even though many students complained to the Dean, his drastic policies were supported by the college... (Canisius)

I'm sure he's still there to this day, making graduate students miserable.

Answer 3

Oh once i grow to be stay in a 17th Century domicile on my holiday journeys and characteristic had this adventure It occurs in the morning at round 7am, i'd be in mattress and that i will "experience" the bedroom door open and someone come into the room, I "experience" it is a center elderly, motherly female. when I attempt to carry my head to search for, i'm unable to nor am i able to flow my fingers or legs, I basically experience paralysed. (it is the in trouble-free terms scary bit, i does no longer be in a position to address being paralysed!) the guy walks to the window and then walks again out of the room. once the guy has left the room, i'm waiting to flow. it is a very unusual feeling, very unthreatening, benign and almost motherly. i'm going again there ever again I particular decrease my holiday short there. it scares the creaky crap out of me. Why don’t ghosts make solid magicians? you are able to discover actual with the help of their tricks……… Have a impressive day.. skycat…..!!!!

Answer 4

I'm doing my computer engineering, final year from a reputed institute in Pune, India. Now we are having a lecturer Resp. Pise sir. In every lecture he comes,takes out his notes, reads them and leaves!
I can remember an incidence.. It was the first lecture of Electronics basics.. for the first time the made a statement without looking into his notes,"There are two binary numbers 0 and 1".
He peeped in his notes ans suddenly said,"Sorry, Actually the two binary numbers are 1 and 0 ".

No need to tell, students enjoys his lecture and Make noise to its fullest. I think Pise sir is a firm believer of the fact that,' if the students are making noise, then you need to speak louder so that your voice will dominate!'

One more incidence, One day only 3 students were present to attend his lecture.. (all of them sitting on the last bench). he taught them for complete one hour and while taking attendance, he started counting from Roll No. 1 and after all three of them gave their attendance he continued with the roll call upto Roll No. 120.!!!

hats off!

Answer 5

When i went to school in Russia, my Spanish teacher and the school principal were both recently out from a mental hospital. both from different ones and for different reasons, but regardless.. people with mental issues shouldn't teach kids..
she yelled constantly (spanish teacher), threw stuff around, gave us so much homework it would be impossible to get done if you had nothing else to do at all! and that because we didn't get it done (noone has ever done that) she would yell even more and throw even more things around. she had made me cry before so many times, and other students as well.. i used to have anxiety attacks before her classes.. or panic attacks at midterms etc
well.. tell you the truth the fear technique worked sooo well!! i think i spoke better spanish than russian... i still can't foget those days in her classes, its been over 8 years now...

Answer 6

I was in university in Toulouse ( France) studying business languages and it was my very first day in "English business"....

I remembered myself thinking "Why, on earth, are those stupid people only using the seats that are completely in the back of the classroom? They're gonna ear nothing!"
And I sat right in the middle of the first row in front of the teacher's table.

Then the teacher came in and sat on his table (I noticed that he just looked like DROOPY)
Then ne started to speak and all the sudden grabbed his glasses and started scratching DEEP INSIDE HIS EAR with one of the side pieces of his glasses...And then his nose started to itch...So he went VERY VERY FAR into his nose WITH THE SAME SIDE PIECE!
By that time, I was saying to myself "you stupid! you should have known that there was a GOOD reason for the students to seat so far from him!"
But things got even worse (yes it's possible) when the SAME SIDE PIECE ENDED UP IN HIS MOUTH! And then again in his ear, nose and mouth and again and again...!

I just couldn't look at him anymore until the end of the two very very long hours without feeling that I was just about to vomit!
In the end I came out with a GREY FACE and all the other student whispering and laughing in my back!

Answer 7

We had a Chemistry teacher. He once committed this "classic" . One particularly rough day, the class being really unruly, he was in a zeal to explain that his own children, inspite of being very young, were better behaved than our present class.
His speech: "Look at this class. I have Two daughters. Both of them are girls"...the class burst into peals of laughter...before he could complete the rest of his explanation.

Then we had a Maths professor. In a bid to explain lot of things in a go, she used to start some sentence, keep it incomplete and jumped on to another statement. Seeing the confused expression on students face, she used to blurt out, ("Do you..)understand?". (If you dont, understand..)I can explain it and again, "understand?.....I can explain....you ask doubts...if no doubts, we will start another topic... understand?

Answer 8

My math teacher in grade 8 was a phyco. A couple of u pushed our desks together to work together and the guys behind us were throwing spit balls. One of the desks was in his way so he picked it up and threw it to get the the guys. On another occasion he twisted my arm when I was having trouble with the assignment. I went straight to the superintendent nd made sure he got suspended. I wanted him to get fired but they just suspended him for a few weeks.

Answer 9

In high school I had a teacher that actually revealed to the class that she waited for her 15 yr old son to fall asleep (on a regular basis), then would crawl in bed with him, because she didn't want to sleep alone.. Too weird!

Answer 10

I had this teacher in middle school who was severly chemically imbalances. She threw a big film cannister at us once. I also had a teacher who always wear really baggy sweaters and I say in the front row and could see the dreadlocks under her arms...gross