/sci/ - Science & Math

Fuck you are your stupid thread

Shut up. This was a fucking stupid topic the first time you posted it. You are a faggot.

>>3500351
you deleted your own comment retard, i didnt repost it

>Professor talking about how the Mongol Empire was the largest, and therefor most impressive empire of all time.
>Point out riding horses over Siberia isn't really an impressive feat, so much as it is taking up space.
>Asks me if I have a doctorate in East Asian studies
>Ask him how much he had to read on horse riding to get that

I think Mongols are cool too, but moving west with nothing in your way until you hit Kiev really isn't that amazing.

WARNING: I've been b& for 3 days for trying to start a similar greentext story thread in /sci/. Apparently the mod who browses this board has a serious case of buttfrustration. Not that we couldn't use more general college discussion threads in here instead of religious trolls, but I don't make the non-existent rules. Don't say I didn't warn you.

Persia. China.

ring a bell?

>>3500374

Reset your router, grab an new IP address. Problem solved.

>Evolution did not happen

mvq

I had a European History teacher who kept getting "Proletariat" and "Bourgeoisie" confused. It didn't help that he pronounced them as "Pro-lay-tat" and "Bore-gee-oise"

>>3500371
>implying Kiev is anywhere near China or Samarkand

The argument is about how they rode west into Russia, not that what they did do was less than amazing.

>how dare he fucking embarrass me like that and undermine me when I am in fact right
You sound like the life of the party, OP.
I understand getting pissed off, but embarrassed? Seriously?
What are you, the nerd everyone occasionally asks for help and you don't want your image tarnished by the professor?

>>3500370

>Professor talking about how the Mongol Empire was the largest, and therefor most impressive empire of all time.
>Point out riding horses over Siberia isn't really an impressive feat, so much as it is taking up space.
>Asks me if I have a doctorate in East Asian studies
>Ask him how much he had to read on horse riding to get that

Do you even realize how much you were idiotic in that instance?
Allow me to explain it to you:

>Professor talking about how the Mongol Empire was the largest, and therefor most impressive empire of all time.

Your professors argument was that the Empire was most impressive because its was the largest.

Now read your contention to it:

>Point out riding horses over Siberia isn't really an impressive feat, so much as it is taking up space.

How the heck is riding horses in Siberia, Assyria, Mars or wherever you want even relevant to the large size of the Empire that qualified it as most impressive?

>so much as it is taking up space.

In contrast to what?

The remainder of your talk is just a derp contest between you and your professor.

>but moving west with nothing in your way until you hit Kiev really isn't that amazing.

Have you heard of China?

>>3500408
>What are you, the nerd everyone occasionally asks for help and you don't want your image tarnished by the professor?
>is browsing /sci/
what were you expecting exactly?

>>3500317

>how dare he fucking embarrass me like that and undermine me when I am in fact right

Are you 12?
Im mean mentally, Im certain you are physically mature so no need to be offended.

>>3500420
it was one of those "you had to be there" moments for you to understand. yeah it sounds shit in writing but that's just me ranting

>>3500411
Well the Mongols didn't walk over Siberia, if that's what you're suggesting. Regardless, the Mongols had little to no difficulty going west while in Russia, with the exception of the Khwarazm empire.

>China
>West of Mongolia
5/10 for making me go download an image of the Mongolian Empire

>>3500424
Thought the black outline was a drawing of a bear in the thumbnail.

>>3500427
yeah same lol

>>3500427
Oh my shit, that's amazing.

>>3500421
What did you claim, that the professor denied?

>>3500432
he was not even considering my argument. he was too stubborn and kept saying "no no no".
when i explicitly explained how i had the correct answer and showed him 2 of the 5 prescribed textbooks, he simply replied "no your wrong".

>>3500435

But you were rong.

>>3500435
Can you answer my question? What did you claim?

>>3500437
i ultimately claimed that he was marking the exam with incorrect criteria (it was a multi-choice question). i claimed that it should've been D when he marked it C.

>>3500442
What was the question + answers?

>>3500351
unless you actually reasoned with the professor later, or the next day.
prepare to be laughed at again.

>>3500443
i dont remember word for word, but question was asking about what data warehouses are and what they contain.

two answers were fucking stupid
what i answered was that they contain past data from one or more databases.
he claims that they contain archived data.

textbooks all say pretty much rephrase my definition + say they are constantly being updated with business' operational data. if they are constantly being updated, how could it possibly be considered archived data?

My moronic high school geography professor insisted Canada is larger than Russia. Her excuse was "I know russia was larger in the cold war, but I thought it broke up into a bunch of small states".

>>3500461
Oh damn.

>>3500461
>geography professor
>high school

>>3500477

It happens. I had a maths professor at my school.

>IT class
>thinking I'll learn something about IT

>It's motherfucking Delphi
>programming language is fucking Pascal

>exam
>we have to write on motherfucking paper
>get significantly downgraded because I mixed up some command-names, brackets and semicolons, something your debugger would immediately tell you and has nothing to do with the 4 page long well thought out structure of the actual program

>douchebag hipster mac user gets better grade than me although he couldn't explain what a fucking browser is

>>3500516

>exam
>we have to write on motherfucking paper
>get significantly downgraded because I mixed up some command-names, brackets and semicolons, something your debugger would immediately tell you and has nothing to do with the 4 page long well thought out structure of the actual program

You are a failure in life.
Did you also rely on auto-correct when you wrote this post?

>douchebag hipster mac user gets better grade than me although he couldn't explain what a fucking browser is

Because he isnt a failure in life like you are.

>he couldn't explain what a fucking browser is.

Irrelevant.

>>3500525
The quality of a program isn't determined by how many semicolons you forgot before your first debugging.

It's about thinking about how to fucking solve this for 1.5 hours and then getting frustrated because you spend most of your fucking time with computers since you completely lack any kind of social life and get a shitty grade because the only fucking IT teacher the school can afford is one year before retirement and pretty much missed the last 20 years of technological development.

FUCK

My high school chemistry teacher talked about intelligent design. He got fired from teaching in college because of this.

His wife was the biology teacher. She told us about holes in evolution, but never talked about intelligent design. She made us watch the 2001 film Evolution.

A lot of teachers knew what they were doing. I was to much of an introvert to call them out on their bullshit at the time.

>>3500525

I think I study at the same place.

Also, lecturer was telling students that it is cheaper to buy a pre-made computer than the pieces individually.

When I was a senior in high school I took a "crime in America" electives class because my parents insisted that having a period off would be nothing but trouble.

So I attend this class which is filled with stoners. As an example of how bad this class was, the teacher spent the first 6 weeks in the class trying to teach about the first 10 amendments. 6 weeks for 10 amendments that you should already know.

After that we move on to drug laws, and she starts this out by giving a lecture on marijuana and its capabilities to kill brain cells, cause lung cancer, make you 'stupid.'

I asked her, word for word, "do you have any studies that substantiate your claims?" and she sends me to the principals office for 'trying to make her look stupid.'

Later on she says that "I think these troubles in the middle east could be solved with one well placed nuke," (this is texas) I again say word for word 'Aren't you being racist by advocating the extermination of a certain people because of the actions of a few extremists?' She took me out in the hall and yelled at me that accusing something of racism isn't something that you should just throw around.

Later still she tried to make an example of me for not standing up during the pledge of allegiance. Not because I was trying to make some naive political statement, but because I was reading and didn't want to be bothered to stand just for the pledge. I said that participation in the pledge was optional, and that I didn't want to participate.

She apparently thought otherwise, but the principal sided with me on this issue and I was able to sit, which all the stoners thought was hilarious and so by the end of the year, only like 5 people in the class of 50 were standing for the pledge.

I hated that teacher, I have some more stories too, but these are the ones that immediately come to mind. I still got the highest grade in the class.

>IT class
>"how dare he embarrass me"
>"no no no"

lol autism fight

Until 20 years or so, 80% of IT Professors are going to be old fucktards who have no clue what they're talking about. Everyone who takes any course even remotely similar to IT has to deal with it.

Take it to someone in hierarchy with your proof and stay assertive.
If that fails, QQ and beg for forgiveness.

>ITT: professors are thought of as demigods who can never be wrong about anything.

>>3500649
>implying a professor should allow himself to be corrected by a freshman

>Get 1.0 in a role play during the year

>final exam, same role play but different teacher
3.4


one of the teachers liked me and one did not like me, guess which one didn´t like me...

>>3500317
when i was 13, a teacher said that malaria was incurable.

I told her it was curable because i remember as a kid, when i was in Africa, i got it multiple times, but she kept insisting otherwise.

everyone thought i was stupid and i felt stupid too.

Op is a tremendous asspie. I hope you failed whatever class this was.

final year neuropharmacology exam, have passed all other exams.

pick question on parkinsons.

im a prick, have been doing own research... third time iv taken this exam.

fail by a few marks..again, no compensation..again

no masters degree.

evolutionary dead end.

Similar experiences... I frequently understand more about the subject than my professors did... questions, responses, test responses frequently straw manned.

I took a philo 101 course.

This was the worse mistake I could imagine. I thought I ended up with a fuck awesome professor. O I was fucking wrong.

The first three weeks of class he went over ancient philo. Saying they weren't real philosophers. Then we get to class and he was all excited. I wondered wtf was going on. That is when he started in lecture.

He claimed that St. Augustine was the FIRST REAL PHILOSOPHER and no one before him had any grasp on what philosophy actually was. After about 20 minutes I got up told him I would no longer be attending a class that is being taught by such a moron.

I later find out he got his philosophy degree from a fucking catholic college in Tennessee.


you have no idea how fucking pissed I was. I went off on him. It was stupid of me. But I couldn't stand it.

>first grade
>english teacher verbally pronouncing sweater as "sweeter"
>I tell her that she's wrong
>Suddenly an argument that she has a English studies diploma
>I was right all along
>Mon visage quand since then I was ironically called professor since then
>Mon visage i have no visage
>It was in first grade.

>>3500982
You should've at least stayed until Descartes to see how lulzy that bit would be.

>>3501040


Dude I couldn't stand it. It would have been a raping. The worst part is there were kids in there who took everything he said as truth. It was sad.

>>3501046
Yeah, it isn't very interesting to hear from people who're supposed to be well educated bitch at other people (or in your professor's case, at ancient philosophers).

>>3500982

first thing I thought was your prof is super religious

it's absurd the he doesn't consider plato a "first" philosopher since most of christianity is built on his metaphysics

HUE HUE HUE HUE HUE

This is what you get, America. This is what you get for paying football coaches more than teachers.

>>3501153
>mfw we got Tebow

that's why you gotta take online classes. it's way less draining, even though the workload is higher.

The only thing I can think of is this one time in middle school where my teacher told us that the reason there was trees was because we made furniture. Also later he asserted that blimps had never been used in war.

>>3501153
damn right!

>>3501153

except that a successful team makes money for the university that more than pays for the coach and HOLYFUCKSHIT also helps fund other departments. your brain is so fucking isolated from reality it's unbelievable.

>>3501220
I'm not mad that football coaches are paid, really.

Just that teachers aren't. There is a REASON that people who actually know what they're talking about don't tend to become teachers.

>>3501220
i think everyone knows about the $. doesn't make it right that it happens.
and fuck organized sports.

>>3501225
Yep. In Finland teachers are very well paid and a respectable occupation, and they have somewhere around the 2nd highest scientific literacy. Maybe if America would just take a bit off of their military budget and put it on education, it would be great.

Not uni prof. ,High School physics but still:
>*showing slides* this is a photograph of our galaxy, >the Milky Way
>*I put up hand* how can we have a picture of our >own galaxy if we've never left it?
>of course, we've left it! we've sent satelites!
>remind him that galaxy is billions of lightyears >accross so the sun would have had time to burn up >and collaps into a neutron star a couple of times over >before the pictures even reached us.
>deadsilence

>>3501246
>>3501246
>America
United States of America **

>>3501249
>argues semantics of "photograph" vs. "artist's rendering"
>he thinks he's accomplished something by outwitting a highschool physics teacher

high school story, sorry

>get into an argument with my chemistry teacher over whether or not covalent bonds were strong.
>I said they were.
>she pulls the "hurr durr i have the degree" bullshit on me
>I was right but didnt assert myself due to autism

It's actually pathetic how much people base their self esteem on some shitty ass education. Be them students or professors. I think these people never knew what the purpose of educated or science was in the first place and simply think that they have "succeeded" at life because they earned a degree.

>>3501249
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7xj8xikyD8

>>3501278
Excuse my typos. I can't really think straight at the moment.

>>3500317
stories of when you were right and your prof. was wrong.
>mfw i read stories of when you were right and your proof was wrong

>>3501271
No, It was a photograph of another galaxy (the Andromeda Cluster if I remember right)

>>3501246
Defense Spending might be a bit excessive here in America, but throwing money at something doesn't automagically fix it.

>>3501246
In the US, the bottom scored graduates make up for most of the teachers. In Finland the highest educated ones make up for most of the teachers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0__9s3A2pcA

>>3501349
not like it really matters too much, the people not interested in math/science are still going to forget everything they learned a year after they took the class anyways

>>3501317
But having shit-tier pay will sure as hell break it.

>>3501366
>teaching doesn't matter, the students will forget it all anyway
Oh yeah, this attitude will help us out tremendously.

>>3501366
But the ones that are genuinely interested benefit a lot more with these kinds of dedicated teachers and quality education. Even the ones that aren't interested do.

very related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzT5iKpxjFA

I think we should make our mathematics and science education even worse than they already are

So that way there are better job prospects for those who are intelligent in them

>>3501391
more teachers like this!

>>3501391
>>3501438
Another angry poem about school by Taylor Mali
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qXgPfMGG8E

>>3501400
Or you could, you know, just be a better scientist.

>>3501490

>>3501349
>>3501349
>>3501349
>>3501349
>>3501349
>>3501349
oh shit

>>3501349
>canada always top 10

imokaywiththis.jpeg

>>3501249
the galaxy isn't billions of light years across its 100000 light years across.

>>3501391
very nice

>>3501249

>billions of lightyears

I don't think so Tim. Try a few hundred thousand.

>>3500317
>>3500317
>>quartzite was too heavy for egyptians to lift
>>made him watch the egyptian job
>>many lulz had

>>3501249
>Our sun
>collaps [sic] into a neutron star
nobody caught this?

>>3500424
quit talking about mongols. they pussied out bigtime when it came to lithuania

http://endotwikipediadotorg/wiki/History_of_Lithuania#Grand_Duchy_of_Lithuania_.28ca._1200.E2.80.931
569.29

"Algirdas took Kiev in 1362 after defeating the Mongols at the Battle of Blue Waters."

its my understanding genghis khan never fucked with them again.

>>3501874
then they became friends...
"ogaila, having secured his western front, allied himself with the Golden Horde against the Grand Duchy of Moscow for the upcoming Battle of Kulikovo.[3]"

In my diffy-q class, professor has function y(x)=stuff involving x... anyway, he sets up a dif. eq. and it looks something like <span class="math">\frac{dy}{\ln{y}}[/spoiler] and the stupid fuck starts trying to plug x into it (well, the function, you know what I mean) I don't say anything, just seeing how long it takes him to realize it... 30 minutes go by, and I finally have had enough and I'm just like "go back to the second step, keep it in terms of y, THEN integrate, now plug in f(x) for y"

another fun part of the story is that this is practically a kindergarten class and he gives bonus points when people point out a mistake, when he started to record my bonus points, I said (loud enough for the entire class to hear) "I don't care about the points, I just want you to teach the damn class"

most epic pwnage of a uni professor in my career (though I was absolutely ruthless in high school).

>>3501938
... except not ln(y), but just y (will become ln(y))

>taking a laser technology course during high-school
>subject of spirits comes up when we were waiting for the bell
>teacher states UFOs are angels watching us, and that he.believes that we are alp listed by devils
>talks about how his dad talked to him spiritually shortly after his father died
>asked if it could have been an auditory hallucination, since he obviously has experienced stress and possible sleep loss due to fathers death
>insists it was his father, and how its proof god exists
>I ask how he believes so strongly in the scientific method ( he thinks most alternative medicine is bull shit), yet takes this at face value
>talks about importance of faith
>mfw

>>3501817
>>3501249
PROTIP:

Local Cluster is on the outer edge of the milky way.
We're a mere 1000 light years from the outermost fringe where there is absolutely NOTHING.

This gives us a good position to "see" the milky way around us and make an educated guess about the size, shape, and prevalent colors of the milky way galaxy.

It's like making a blueprint of your house from the inside of your house. While it is cluttered with junk.

>>3501260

douchebag, America as an accepted name for it.
if you're gonna rant on that you should also make sure that you say the "Peoples' republic of China" when you want to talk about China, or the "Kingdom of Norway" for Norway, or even better "The most eloquent Arabic language" if you want to talk about Arabic.

>>3501260
So does American Football refer to the football played in the Americas?

>>3502028
Not the Americas, just America.

>>3501249
Our galaxy is approximately 100,000 ly across. Lots less than billions.

Your teacher still obviously wrong, though.

>>3500389

>Learnin histories with Coach Z!

>autistic brother is in school
>pronunciation test
>teacher pronounces "whale" like "wahl"
>marks his answer wrong
>entire family ready to backhand teacher
Fuck.

>>3502118
It's way-ell, retard.

One among others

> Be in HS biology class (Grade 11)
> Teacher calls a leg muscle the gametomycetes
> I tell him he's wrong in front of the whole class
> It's the gastrocnemius, divided in both its median and lateral counterpart
> Dead silence in the class, getting weird looks from everyone
> Teacher tells me I'm wrong
> I maintain my point
> Have to stay after class
> He states that even if he's wrong, I have no right to correct him in front of the class
> Next day I bring him a paper stating the facts
> Recycle bin gets visited
> At the exam, question regarding the muscle pops up
> I write down an entire paragraph about the high level of narcissism the teacher employs
> Got 98% on the test, missed that single question

>>3501349

so if Finland is employing all best graduates for teaching, there must not be much research and development done?

>>3502538
But the output of graduates is greater than the demand for teachers.

>>3502538
>>3502538

There are 2 types of University level science degress in Finland:

1) Master of Science. This not a very popular degree since it won't land you job in the industry. 40% become school / high school teachers, 10% do research, 5% get hired to industry, rest eventually switch to 2 or another degree program.

2. Diploma-Engineer (Master of Science in Engineering. 95% get a job in the industry, 5% stay to do a PhD.

>>3502625

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomi-insin%C3%B6%C3%B6ri

>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzT5iKpxjFA

That pisses me off. If that guy teaches high school or below, then he's essentially glorifying his role as a tyrant.

"I make kids work harder than they ever thought they could! I make them sit through 40 minutes of study hall in absolute silence!"

Sounds like you enjoy making other people miserable, you fucking jerk.

>professor asking what is the tiniest force we (scientists) can measure
>I say 10^-24 as per an article I had read
>he says "heh, that's a little small, no, 10^-15"
>I later hand him the article

>mfw

>>3502778
>force
>magnitude with no units
Cool story bro

>>3502785
Newton or bust, faggot.

>>3502757
>enforcing actual studying
>tyranny

>Give exam on trends in the IT industry
>Some pretentious faggot doesn't listen throughout the semester and gets a question wrong
>babbys first B
>faggot trying to get everyone to re-do the test because he's a insufferable know-it-all

>A level physics class, the teacher is ill and subsequently substituted with an A level math teacher so we can still work on new shit
>Question given in giga prefixed units
>He doesn't bother to convert them down saying there's no need
>Say "but then the answer would be given in giga-meters"
>"Giga-meters don't exist"
>mfw he is a maths teacher

>>3502992

A Level Math?

Where the hell are you from?

>>3503020
The UK...

>>3503045

>Math
>UK

Idontthinksotim

I am ann and I knew that the UK takes math in alphanumerical units, besides specialties.

>>3503068
>Implying

>>3503082

What?

He said he was doing 'A level math', which a Brit wouldn't say.

>>3503086
Oh, I thought you were implying the UK could not into maths
I think being here so often is what causes me to say "math" rather than maths or mathematics.

>>3502992
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_gigametre

>>3503111
I was the one that said the answer would be given in giga meters

>>3503086
>don't know about dialects
Fuck, you are such a dipshit it's unbearable.

>>3503086
I'm British and I often type 'math' instead of 'maths' on here. Only because I know that buttmad American's like yourself get so annoyed when you're reminded that you don't know how to properly abbreviate a word. How's the 'mathematic' going across the pond? We're doing fine with our mathematics over here.

Ontopic:

>last year in HS
>chem class
>small chubby teacher who's bitter that she's teaching a class of people in which 90% will go on to be doctors, a feat she failed to achieve
>talking about complex metal ions and how their ligands determine which wavelengths they absorb in the EMS
>she says that colour is 100% down to the ligands present
>she explicitly says, it's ONLY the ligands
>sounds like BS to me
>I politely ask if the central metal ion plays any role
>she gets flustered and starts spouting 'only the ligands' over and over like a broken record
>So I explicitly ask "would the colour of X compound be the same as Y compound, where X and Y have identical ligands but different central metal ions?'
>at this point she concedes defeat and admits that it's not just the ligands

What get's me though is how reluctant teachers are to stray away from the curriculum. If there's anything anyone asks which is slightly above the level you're learning at, then it's a no-go area.

Still there were some pretty amusing moments in her class. In another incident she took five minutes on a calculator to work out log(100).

>>3503095

I'm British myself, hence why I picked up on it.

>>3503198

>Implying I'm American.

I say 'maths', I prefer 'maths' and I was picking up on the fact that it looked like the guy claiming to be British wasn't.

When I was in high school I took a "computer technology" class which was pretty stupid but I didn't particularly mind except for one thing. As part of "teaching binary," he decided to teach how characters are encoded into binary. The method he taught us wasn't ASCII. It was EBCDIC, a method which was invented for IBM mainframes and has been pretty much obsolete ever since those days. I told him several times that this was wrong, but he didn't really listen.

Also, my biology teacher explicitly refused to teach evolution, although he told us to read the section of the book on it since we'd be tested on it.

7th grade science class.

I was trying to sleep at my desk, as usual.

Teacher asks class what the closest planet to the sun was.

Anyone?
Anyone?
Bueler?

Get frustrated that no-one knows about mercury.

Raise head, say "Mercury"

"Good" teacher writes it on board, I figure I just had to get the ball rolling.

"Next planet?" teacher asks.

Anyone?
Anyone?
Bueler?

I raise head again, "Venus"

"Good" Teacher writes it on the board.

"Next planet?"

Anyone?
Anyone?
Bueler?

Utterly frustrated that no-one in the entire class but me knows the name of the rock they live on, I raise my head....

"EARTH!"

"Good" teacher write....

"MARS"

Teacher continues to.....

"JUPITER SATURN URANUS NEPTUNE PLUTO"

Look around, Faces of utter shock and horror gaze upon my apparent Magical Powers....

Head-Desk in disgust, sleep for the rest of the period.

Only A in the Entire School on the Science Exam.

>>3504737
What?

>>3503276
atleast your high school had computer classes
our computer programming class used alice 3d, completely serious

>>3501349
Why are they comparing a single city to whole countries?

>>3504737

>implying Pluto is a planet.

>>3504988
Implying it wasn't when he was in 7th grade

>>3504988
>2011
>arguing about the classification of celestial bodies

You guys need to stop thinking like biologists and accept that there are such a wide range of bodies orbiting stars that you will never come up with a classification system that fits them all. It's even more fruitless than biological classification because there are no genetics to trace; it's just random physical phenomena causing matter to clump together.

Just catalog the known bodies' physical characteristics and then you can list them any way you want, by temperature or composition or musical taste or whatever.

>1st grade
>Lesson on basic addition and subtraction.
>"Okay class, what's two take-away one?"
>[chorus of children]"One"
>"Very good, now, what is one take-away two?"
>Confused looks, someone guesses three, I shout negative one, ignored
>"Well there is no answer to that one because two is bigger than one, and you cant take a bigger number away from a smaller number"
>"ITS NEGATIVE ONE"
>Get sent outside for yelling
>For the rest of the year go to a special class to talk about my feelings while everyone else does math
>iaintevenmad.jpg

>>3505046
So is it now that you realize you were using an axiom which was not a part of the curriculum? It's like saying the square root of negative 1 is i.

>2011
>realizing one is actually wrong.

>>3505046
>negative numbers
>1st grade

>>3505046
She should be fired.

>english prof. writes on board "Principals of Modern Literature"
>try to hold in my laughter
>raise hand
>"Um, sir, should it not be PrinciPLES of modern literature?"
>he just looks at me like the value of money just changed
>follow up with "unless there really are principals in charge of modern literature, do they have to answer to some sort of Dean of books? Wouldn't that just be a librarian? Do all english professors really secretly work for librarians??"
>he just stops me and tells me to kindly get the fuck out of his class

>>3505063
It is, thank you for exposing my ignorance. Would you happen to have any additional information as to why I am wrong?
>>3505078
I went outside the curriculum. In public education that is the ultimate heresy, punishable by being sent to go play with toy dinosaurs with some therapist lady.

>>3505088

>>3505063
>arguing that 1-2≠ -1

Get out.

>>3505091
No just that. The class was being taught natural numbers and you decided, out of ingnorance, to talk about real numbers.

Perhaps theres actually a rational reason that you got kicked out.

>>3505111
It doesn't when you're learning natural numbers.

>calc professor thinks he's funny
>whenever nobody knows the answer to a question he says "anybody? euler? euler?"
>his face when someone finally tells him it's pronounced "Oiler" and he no longer does that joke anymore

>>3505119

Even if you're right, the teacher should have explained the difference instead of kicking him out of class

>>3505119

There's always one of these guys....ALWAYS.

>>3505127
So they can avoid the lesson plan and confuse the point of the discussion?

Should we also make them discuss jesus and other imaginary things during history time?

Where does it stop when you let kids define the axioms?

>>3505119
It's first grade bro, they teacher was more concerned about my disruptive behavior than my discussion of things unrelated to the lesson at hand.

>>3505124
>implying the teacher wrote 1-2=[x]

Get out, you don't do naturals in first grade.

>>3505141
It doesn't matter. Her statement that you can't subtract a larger number from a smaller one was false.

When public education already does such a shitty job of teaching math and science, it'd be nice if they taught as few false things as possible.

>>3505143
eh? I think you're confused.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_number

>>3505154
In defense of the smug bastard, I assumed we were talking about real numbers instead of naturals. The fault was mine due to my childish ignorance of these distinctions

>>3505125
aww but it was funny and he was having a good time

>>3505173
And as such, the lesson of the day, is one can learn more without bias than they can with it.

>>3505088
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>>3504768
Mine too. I'd never done anything with computer science before and that was still the easiest A+ of my life. Using programs made for elementary students helps though.

>>3505119
When I was a kid I memorized things to heart and hated being wrong. I often thought of things outside the curriculum and generally the response was a bald-faced lie. I would desperately try to understand why something wasn't the case and then when I couldn't I felt stupid and memorized things like that to absolute heart. Once I was proven right in the end in later grades I had a lot of difficulty reconciling the ideas, and rejected them on principle. It was like some idea that I had blocked out to avoid being wrong. Selfishly basing my opinion just on that, lying to kids doesn't seem to be the best approach.

Whether or not it was in the curriculum doesn't mean she should just be lying. At worst she should have told him that was wrong in class and explained that he was right privately, but it wasn't going to be covered in class that year. Also your holding a one year old accountable for asking a question ignorant to the content of the lesson. You. Retard.

tl;dr: public school system punishing a child for being right is retarded. you're similarly retarded if you don't believe that.

>2nd or 3rd grade (can't remember which)
>Natual Sciences class
>Exam has a question "Which of the 9 planets in the Solar System is the hottest?"
>My answer "Venus"
>Teacher marks it as wrong, claiming that Mercury is the hottest as it is closest to the Sun
>I appeal to her, saying that Venus' atmosphere caused such a greenhouse effect that temperatures there were, in fact, higher than in Mercury
>Teacher dismisses me
>I go to the sciences department to ask one of the physics teachers
>He says "Of course it is Venus"
>I ask him to sign a piece of paper saying that. Then I ask a couple more teachers.
>First teacher finally caves in and fixed my exam, but lowers my score because I made some grammatical errors.
>Says that "This is what you get for having your test re-examined. I let those errors pass the first time, but not this one"

My final grade ended up worse than the original, but I felt great. Some kind of morally boosting Phyrric victory, I guess.

Oh boy, i've got some fucking stories for you.

>Instructor: "make sure you always remove the positive terminal from the battery first"
>say "sorry, could you repeat that?"
>make eye contact with class mates and smirk.

>Instructor: "this is an omni-directional antenna, so it only works in one direction"
>Everyone just looks at eachother

>Instructor: "you can not go on the internet on an airplane, you will mess up the electronics and it will crash"
>Ask him "when was the last time you went flying, you can connect to wifi on planes now"
>Instructor "No anon, you can't. You'll crash the plane"
>Break time, go to library, print out American Airlines advertising WIFI on flights for $8 and give it to him in class
>Instructor: "Oh, I didn't know about that"
>Me: "The components allowing wifi access are installed on the plane right?"
>instructor: "yeah, they would have to be"
>me: "So if they break, i can't call up geek squad at bestbuy, i'd have to fix it right?"
>instructor "whats your point, anon?"
>Me "Shouldn't we be learning about these systems so we can fix them, instead of being told that they don't exist and that i will crash the plane if i use my iphone?"

I lost all respect for this guy. Antimatter can apparently be used to make artificial gravitational fields. We are also apparently really close to being able to travel faster than the speed of light by using light as a carrier wave like they do on star trek(the whole thing is flawed). Hydraulic pumps apparently make pressure too, its not the restrictions.