Worst teacher you've ever had?

[toolbox]

I actually liked my Primary school teachers, it was until high school - i had a couple there that i disliked

one of them was our workshop teacher (wood work ) He was the strictest person i have ever met. Role call, you had to either say Yes Mr Williams or Yes Sir. He would keep calling your name until you said either Yes sir or Yes Mr Williams.

One day i was using the drop saw - He was in another room and he came out and yelled at me because i put my hand to get the wood out and the blade had only just stopped spinning. Now the twit did not even have the plastic blade guard on it forget why now but any way.

One day he was cutting a big bit of wood in the class room and told one of the girls to "Blow" to get rid of the saw dust. He then Lost his temper and sent her out side. The reason "your not blowing hard enough LoL" (no pun intended)

Other one science teacher, forget what kind of science it was but he was the kind of person that would come in and tell lame jokes. One morning i remember he comes in and tells every one he can't talk much today because his leg was hurting. Also the type of teacher to go up behind peoples backs with a black board ruler and smash it on the desk and scare the sausages out of everyone.

 

[chrono1081]

Oh wow..where to start....

I'll exclude college professors since that list is a mile long. In high school it would have been one of my math teachers (who I won't name).

Basically I'd ask questions, and she'd tell me to be quiet. An example was when I asked how to find sine, cosine, and tangent without a calculator and she'd say that it wasn't possible. I'm not dumb, I know they were doing this before calculators so I kept asking. Finally she said they used "Lookup tables" and when I asked how the numbers on the lookup tables were found she sent me out in to the hall.

I didn't find out until I was 27 ( ! ) how to do that by drawing a unit circle (and I forget what else, I don't use it often) but it made perfect sense after learning how to do it without a calculator. That could have saved me countless hours of frustration through high school and college. (Did I mention none of my college professors could explain either???) I found the answer on the Gamedev forums.

 

[UlsterApple]

Try these for size!
I went to a Grammar School in the UK, most of the teachers were positively ELDERLY!
We're talking early 1970s here, we had an ex-Spitfire pilot from the Battle of Britain, a Latin teacher who had lost an eye in the First World War and beat you around the head with his pipe if you got things wrong, and a history teacher who used to give severe beatings with a wooden duster / chalk board cleaner. I saw pupils beaten almost unconscious by him, including near misses where he threw the wooden board cleaner so hard it missed and broke the window. Physical punishment was routine; you were beaten with slippers, gym shoes, canes and even books. Even in 'normal' classes the punishment for a wrong answer was for the rest of the class to immediately volunteer and the selected pupil would bang you on the head with an enormously heavy pile of hard backed books, probably causing the neck injuries I have today.
And they wonder why I don't go to the reunions, or join the Old-Boys society?
The younger / newer teachers were all of a different era and were quite good, but the older ones were a nightmare.

 

[Shrink]

First, all of my teachers are probably dead by now.

I know this is going to sound a little sappy, but I can only remember the good ones. The teachers who supported and encouraged me.

I know I had some duds - but they just don't stand out like the good ones.

Possibly just selective recall, but the good ones stick with me.

 

[chrono1081]

I had a few good ones. Our physics teacher was cool. He made us build boats out of cardboard (no waterproofing!) and sit in them and race them in the school swimming pool as part of the final.

Unfortunately for me I forgot swim trunks that day, fortunately for me my boat didn't sink (Well, it did but it was right after me and my lab partner stepped out of it, so we passed.)