Smart things your educators have said

[Quagmire]

"Shut up and sit down!"

 

[Harel13]

Remind me again how that worked out for everyone?

That'd be off-topic for this thread.

 

[Secret Chief]

Effluent ?

Outpouring of power and pagan poo.

 

[Erebus]

A history teacher taught me that a photograph doesn't necessarily tell the truth. That came as a surprise when I was in school as it seemed intuitive that photographic evidence should be reliable.

I also had a maths teacher who introduced her lesson on surds with, "You'll probably never actually need to know this."

 

[VoidCat]

Semirelated but not quite... I had a teacher when I was in high school ask for my help to complete their homework(they apparently were going to their bachelors degree.). They interviewed me on autism and on being a disabled student and asked questions on what ways help me when teaching me as an autistic person. This stuck with me and seemed smart that a teacher would ask their students on how best to teach them and pay attention to their students views on things related to learning in order to teach them. It also stuck with me as I didnt expect the teacher to have homework.

 

[Stevicus]

As the title says, post smart things that your educators (teachers/professors) have said that have stuck with you.

I have one that one of my professors said last semester that has been in my head for some time now:
"You know it's a fair compromise if nobody is pleased."

I remember in a high school math class, somehow the class discussion shifted and digressed to politics. I don't recall the details, but there was a point made about public policies and laws which, on their face, didn't make any sense to logical, rational young minds.

The teacher said, "They don't want to make sense. They want to make money!"

Words of wisdom.

 

[Revoltingest]

One I remember....
Don't knock your drafting tools off your table.
You don't see adults doing that.
So don't look like a clumsy kid.

 

[exchemist]

Ironically, the professor said it during a class on the start of the British Mandate, when the British were having meetings with the local Jews and Arabs.

Erm, yes, well, there would be no pleasing both I imagine.

 

[exchemist]

I used to live next to Tooting Common. Beware, lots of rats live there,

Oh really? I occasionally go walking on Tooting Common. Makes a change from Wandsworth and Clapham Commons.

 

[ChristineM]

E before I in spelling receipt.

We had similar - "i before e except after c".

To which some wise one said... "Sir my name is Keith"

 

[ChristineM]

I took history as a first year option, first class the tutor said "my PhD is in comics, if you don't like it the door is there."

No one left.

He was a fantastic tutor, i think if i wasn't so keen on art I'd have gone for history as a major because of him.

 

[PureX]

"It's not about what she looks like. I can see that for myself. It's about what she IS ... to you." - from a professor in a figure drawing class.

 

[Audie]

Economics-
"Never buy trouble if you can rent it"

 

[PureX]

"Write down your ten best ideas, then throw them away and write down ten more. Keep doing this until you run out of ideas, or you finally realize that you're just wasting your time.

Then DO something!" - from a beloved old sculpture professor.

 

[Audie]

Effluent ?

Effluviams

Effluent ?

Effluviams

 

[Jedster]

"Shut up and sit down!"

When I went to my first lecture on compiler construction, the lecturer's first sentence was

"I hate students"

 

[Guitar's Cry]

"Stupid ain't sexy."

 

[beenherebeforeagain]

"If you're having to crunch time to complete a project. How do you have time to do it over?"

The first 90 percent of the job takes 90 percent of the time. It's the last 10 percent of the job that takes the other 90 percent of the time.

 

[Stevicus]

We had similar - "i before e except after c".

To which some wise one said... "Sir my name is Keith"

I remember that rule:

 

[syo]

Nothing.

But my psychiatrist helped me, when she got angry with me.