Favorite Teacher Quotes

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My favorite quote is from a music teacher at my school. He isn’t very good at playing the Piano… so whenever he plays the wrong melody he yells; “Dandce fingers! Dance!” It makes my day. I use it a lot on IMs

Another quote from my math teacher, when asked about an upcoming test:

“The test is going to be all multiple choice. It’s easier for my wife to correct.”

my bio teacher the other day said “in science always keep an open mind … but not so open that your brains fall out”

In my junior year I took AP bio and the real teacher had cancer and eventually passed on so we got a sub, and every day she would say, " I haven’t taken biology in over thirty years!"

My Government teacher, Mr. Rohde, is retiring at the end of the semester. He’s been teaching at the school for over 30 years now, and he’s become semi-famous in the area. He’s a great teacher…he just mocks his students more often than he should. :smiley: Come to think of it, he seems to enjoy annoying people. When the phone rings, he’ll pick it up, continue lecturing the class for another thirty seconds or so, then shout “211!” (his room number) into the phone.

Guess I need a quote to keep this on topic, so…
“How can you miss that? This material is spoon-fed!”
-Mr. Rohde

During one of the classes we weren’t paying attention and the teacher wasn’t sure we had heard what she said and she said “Are you picking up what I’m throwing down?” It definitly made us stop and think for a moment.

One of my favorites is from my Astronomy teacher this year on the first day of school:

“I’ll bet you’re all wondering if there’s a reason that all 4 Teletubbies are hanging from my ceiling on a string. Well ladies and gentlemen, there is.”

And BTW, just in case anyone is curious, he uses them to wipe the chalkboard.

I really liked it when my calculus teacher started repeatedly yelling out loud:
“I’m stupid. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.”
That is when he was figuring out how to do a calculus problem and realized how simple it was.
My social studies teacher said this about my physics teacher:
“He scared the audience when he walked out with a dead cat”
My former advisor thought you could make a dance out of any common motion like pulling a lawnmower.

One of the people who is tech certified and can monitor us for the bulid season is Mr. Haines. He’s old (70s?) and was a nuclear sub engineer in WWII. It’s always funny to listen to him lecture you about how many degrees he has (we lost count… or didn’t pay enough attention).

When we need to get something done quickly during robotics, he yells German phrases: “SCHNELL! SCHNELL!”

WELL… Every year we have a Powderpuff Football game with our rival school… let’s just call them Team X. Now my APUSH teacher, who coaches our team, was talking about plans for next year, after his defeat that weekend. Somehow we get to talking about how we’re gonna send our rivals away:

Us: “Well, we can just send them to California.”
Teacher: “They’d never take them in California…”
Us: “Why?”
Teacher: “Team X… California…”

We still don’t get the connection between the two.

Before CAD, drafting & design classes were held with drawing boards and students making designs on large pieces of paper. There were pencils, eraser shields, and brushes to wipe your eraser bits off of the boards.

Students had to be fairly clean with their work, and had to tape down their paper to the table to keep things in order.

My high school drafting teacher was a fairly funny guy, and whenever the class would start a new drawing, he would always come up behind some unsuspecting student (in this case, me) who was just beginning to tape his paper down to the table and say…

“Baker, remember… it’s sticky side down.”

I think my favorite teacher bit of advice was when my college freshman English Composition teacher convinced me to become an English major. When I wrote him an email and presented him with the good news, he replied simply, ‘Amanda, welcome to the Dark Side.’

He was a nuclear sub engineer in WWII? Thats interesting, considering the Nautilus wasn’t launched until 1954.

Wetzel

LMAO!!

No, but research and development can be traced as far back as 1945… (maybe earlier, but 45 is the earliest I’ve seen) :slight_smile:

My most memoriable quote was when i was in 6th grade we had this english teacher that was so mean so in return we would all just talk and not care and one day she sayed to us "You guys are like my german shepard i jsut have to get out my stick and beat you

Teacher quotes? Hmm…I’m sure I’ve heard a bunch of good stuff from my history teacher, I just can’t remember any right now. But here’s one from my physics teacher:

“Physics is Phunner!”
…What a geek. :rolleyes: =P

Ok so my 11th grade US History teacher … ex-Navy guy, used to do spy-plant stuff. Neat guy. :slight_smile:

We’re talking about our ethnicity and where our ancestors are from. To be funny, Tyler says, “I’m Congenese!” Everyone in the class knows Tyler is from Milwaukee, without a trace of African blood in him. Ryan yells, “Tyler, you’re not from the Congo!” The teacher turns around and snaps at Ryan, “Ryan! I THINK Tyler would KNOW where his ethnicity lies!”

Of course, it’s been a big Joke ever since.

The day the Segway is unveiled … (Reisweber and Schuff are the two head teachers on 93) Reisweber had just gotten a new motorcycle. Schuff sees the Segway, turns around and says to Reisweber, “Screw your Harley. Sc-REW your Harley! I want one of those things!”

Funny, funny. :slight_smile:

Unfortunately I haven’t had very many interesting teachers. In fact the quote that I’m about to give came from a teacher-in-training. We were in US history class and we were doing one of our Debate Fridays. I couldn’t believe she actually said this. She said, and I quote: “By the end of today I want everybody in here to be Master Debators.” (sound it out) :wink: