You know what I'm talking about. Those people in classrooms that will always raise their hands, open their mouths, and release a simple statement or question that leaves the entire rest of the class with their mouths hanging open at the absolutely inanity of what was just said. It doesn't matter if you're in a general education class or an elite upper-division specialty class, there is always one of those.
At first, the teacher tries to be nice. After all, it's entirely possible that no one in the class knows what Newton's Law of Gravity is about, or that 50 people who made it into college are unclear on the concept of what a noun really is. So the first couple days, possibly even weeks, you get to sit back and watch this
buffoon steal time and concentration that could be going to make sure you get a good grade and a good education. Eventually, however, unless the teacher is too nice for their own good, or coming up for tenure soon, they will start ignoring, bypassing, or re-routing the ridiculousness that pours forth in a seemingly inexhaustible stream from this one... solitary... student.
I appreciate that, in one of my two classes this semester, the teacher is familiar with the student in question, and has already, in the first class of the season, shut them down. In my personal opinion, the prof is scary enough that I would have stopped trying after the first remonstration, but sadly, one mark of being one of those people is a complete inability to consider anything other than yourself. Oh well. While we're waiting for this person to get a clue, here is one of the (many) phrases I've collected over the years at school that just blew me away. Enjoy!
And yes, this seriously did happen...
At first, the teacher tries to be nice. After all, it's entirely possible that no one in the class knows what Newton's Law of Gravity is about, or that 50 people who made it into college are unclear on the concept of what a noun really is. So the first couple days, possibly even weeks, you get to sit back and watch this
buffoon steal time and concentration that could be going to make sure you get a good grade and a good education. Eventually, however, unless the teacher is too nice for their own good, or coming up for tenure soon, they will start ignoring, bypassing, or re-routing the ridiculousness that pours forth in a seemingly inexhaustible stream from this one... solitary... student.
I appreciate that, in one of my two classes this semester, the teacher is familiar with the student in question, and has already, in the first class of the season, shut them down. In my personal opinion, the prof is scary enough that I would have stopped trying after the first remonstration, but sadly, one mark of being one of those people is a complete inability to consider anything other than yourself. Oh well. While we're waiting for this person to get a clue, here is one of the (many) phrases I've collected over the years at school that just blew me away. Enjoy!
And yes, this seriously did happen...
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