When it comes to learning, students have to trust that their teachers are giving them correct knowledge as doing that is the whole point of their profession. Of course, teachers can’t know everything even in their own subject and there are always new things to learn for them too, but you would expect that they know more than you.
That’s not the case everywhere as people on Reddit shared many stories of how their teachers didn’t know elementary things like that a dolphin is a mammal or that jellyfish are living creatures. It’s not clear how these gaps in education formed, but it’s scary as teachers are passing them over to the students. The thread started when A_Purple_Penguins asked “What is the moment when you realized, ‘My teacher is an idiot?’” and more people answered than you would expect.
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#21
When my ENGLISH teacher (I’m from Italy so we have English as a second language) said “lettoochay” instead of lettuce. She was also one of the worst teachers and ended up getting replaced.
116points
#22
My eighth grade social studies teacher thought Panama was a part of Canada. Why? Because in the geography textbook we were using, Panama and Canada were colored in with the same shade of pink.
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115points
#23
My English teacher asked when Woodrow Wilson was president, we were reading scarlet ibis and it mentioned him, so I raise my hand. I replied both his election dates, 1912 and 1916 if I’m not mistaken. She tells me no. I assumed I got the dates wrong and it was actually 1914 and 1918 or something. Then some girl raises her hand and answers “Nine teen hundreds” and she says yes.
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110points
#24
He would brag about how many people fail his class
107points
#25
Had my high school geography teacher insist that Antarctica is a country.
I lost points on the test because of it…
106points
#26
My geography teacher when he explained that self checkouts had something to do with the mark of the beast and the end times. I don't remember all the details.
103points
#27
when she started showing medieval Europe’s trade routes on a South America map
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101points
#28
I had an English teacher in high school who was obsessed with poetry, and one afternoon she got into an argument with half the class over a poem because she was reading the word written and printed "noone" (no one) as "noon" and refused to believe it could possibly be "no one" even though that was the only way the line in the poem made remotely any sense.
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100points
#29
My science lecturer said that water in a kettle boils at 60 degrees Celsius. BOILS!!
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93points
#30
She said since we were learning about the formation of democracy that she will let the class vote whether I passed or failed a presentation.
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79points