1

"My computer science teacher once stated that the internet is just a fashion that will soon pass."

2

"My high school guidance counselor in 2000 or so said she would try to block the release of transcripts for college admissions of any student that she believed had used marijuana, because she “knew” that no one who smoked weed would ever be successful."

3

"It’s not my job to teach you."

4

"My son’s teacher said to him recently the one about “never having a calculator with you all the time”. When I was at school, mobile phones amongst kids were starting to become a thing with Nokia 3310 type models. So even in “my day” it was pushing it."

5

"We had a math teacher who was an elderly hippie. She begged and pleaded with the administration to let her teach an earth science class. Eventually they caved and the results were incredible.

Some highlights:

“It’s easier to breathe at the top of a mountain, because oxygen rises.”

“It’s also hotter up there because you are closer to the sun.”

“Of course wildebeests eat meat, they’ve got BEAST right in their name!”"

6

"One of my elderly elementary school teachers ran a film about the pyramids and tombs of Giza and told us that no one would ever decipher hieroglyphics. "

7

"You’ll be a checkout clerk if you don’t know my subject."

8

"An 8th grade teacher once told us that there was absolutely no reason why we had to learn the alphabet in any particular order. As we sat there in our desks, alphabetically by last name."

9

"Not said to me but the entire class. Year was 2002 and our PE teacher told all the girls in class: “Girls, just accept the fact that you are just men’s sex objects.” We are in a catholic school and sadly, the PE teacher still kept his job."

10

"In a public school our high school biology teacher said earth was only 6,000 years old. He was serious but knew he wasn’t supposed to teach that so he mostly avoided it."

11

"I had a teacher in elementary school tell me I was wrong when I wrote that a koala is not actually a bear. Her reasoning was that they were called koala bears, so they had to be a bear."

12

"They were CONVINCED that cold water boils faster than hot water. It just… can’t possibly be correct."

13

“Always carry a dime in your watch pocket, incase you need to make an emergency phone call.” 

…Uh even when they still existed, pay phones were a minimum a quarter for a local call. Long distance cost like an entire roll of quarters and the operator would butt in and tell you “time is up.”

14

"In third grade (late 1980s) a teacher flatly refused to accept my homework because it was “done on a computer”. This wasn’t some 1980s version of ChatGPT, either, it was a Coleco/ADAM with a daisywheel printer and a marginal word processor. It didn’t have any of the features we expect from Word or even WordPerfect. It just put characters on the screen when you typed those characters.

Me being a difficult child, I told her more or less “I did it, too bad” and let my parents know when I got home. This started a whole process that ended in the principal’s office, with the principal telling the teacher “This little boy is the first to use his computer for homework in your class. He won’t be the last one. You have to get over this.”"

15

"“Girls shouldn’t be taking Chemistry anyway.”

(In my section only three of us passed. All girls. Across all sections two of the three highest grades were girls.)"