Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.ee to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoWhat's the wrongest thing a teacher ever told you?message-squaremessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down11
arrow-up10arrow-down1message-squareWhat's the wrongest thing a teacher ever told you?Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.ee to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square9fedilink
minus-squareagent_nycto@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months ago“Medieval armies didn’t use crossbows when attacking castles.” My hand immediately shot up. “What are you talking about? Of course they did.” My elderly history teacher replied “no, they didn’t.” Me “Why do you think that?” Her “because crossbows fire in a straight line so they would just shoot over the castle.” I looked at my classmates, hoping they would see how insane this is. They were looking at me like I grew a second head. Me “that’s not true. At all.” Her, getting slightly annoyed, “how do you know?” Me “well for one, I’ve fired a crossbow, I know how they work. For two, they had GRAVITY BACK THEN, the bolt comes back down!” Her, and some of the class “ooooh!” … Her “well anyway…” And continues the lesson. This was a college class.
minus-squareTempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoI’m reading this and think, “Oh man… I wish I had shot a cross bow in 4th grade.” This was a college class. Ugh. Wait! Do 4th graders go to college… No. No they don’t.
“Medieval armies didn’t use crossbows when attacking castles.”
My hand immediately shot up. “What are you talking about? Of course they did.”
My elderly history teacher replied “no, they didn’t.”
Me “Why do you think that?”
Her “because crossbows fire in a straight line so they would just shoot over the castle.”
I looked at my classmates, hoping they would see how insane this is. They were looking at me like I grew a second head.
Me “that’s not true. At all.”
Her, getting slightly annoyed, “how do you know?”
Me “well for one, I’ve fired a crossbow, I know how they work. For two, they had GRAVITY BACK THEN, the bolt comes back down!”
Her, and some of the class “ooooh!”
…
Her “well anyway…” And continues the lesson.
This was a college class.
I’m reading this and think, “Oh man… I wish I had shot a cross bow in 4th grade.”
Ugh. Wait! Do 4th graders go to college… No. No they don’t.