Stupidest thing you've heard in school?

[Dazarath]

This isn't specifically what anyone said, but it just points out the stupidity of your average non-honors kid taking English. Yeah, I know I was one of them, but I blame it on my inability to write, not my stupidity.

In my junior year of high school, our English teacher used to give us vocab words every week or so. One week, one of the words was "grave".

Teacher: "Can anyone tell me what grave means? And I don't mean the kind in the ground."
Some kid: "Serious."
Teacher: "Good. Does anyone know the noun form of this words?"
Me: "Gravity."

And (almost) the entire class burst out laughing at me. I swear, being in the class made me feel like the biggest retarded ever. Some people say they hate being around smart people because it makes them feel stupid. I agree, but being in a class with those classmates of mine made me wonder why the [censored] I was there.

[Triumph36]

in US history class senior year, our teacher gives us some passage about trainloads full of salt, and about the business of salt - then asks us to discuss amongst ourselves what we think it might be for.

So we're discussing amongst ourselves and I overhear the class valedictorian, this theater nut/clear gay guy say with his lisp -

"Maybe, like, salt makes plants grow better."

[AlexM]

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I was in a lab in college and overheard a guy saying "I wonder what it feels like to be shot." I told him it probably hurt.

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So... you're nominating yourself for this thread?

[mason55]

What the hell, like 90% of these are really not that stupid (or funny).

[Tom1975]

Junior year, AP American history. We are discussing the Cold War and US-Soviet relations. Our teacher is giving some background on the USSR and gives a short lecture about Lenin. He mentions that when Lenin died, the Soviets revered him so much, they actually preserved his brain so they could study it, and that they still had it to this day. One of the kids speaks up says "Wow, they must have preserved it really well, see as how Lenin died over 50 years ago." At this point one the girls in the class gets a puzzled look on her face and says "Fifty years ago? What are you talking about? John Lennon died in 1980!" She went on to be our Valedictorian. True story.

[David H]

History class, junior year. We're discussing something about New England and the colonies. One girl raises her hand and says

"So, wait...What's the difference between England and New England??"

[Quanah Parker]

These will be the best 4 years of your life.

[Warik]

Third year computer programming class in college. Professor is showing us how recursion works and is writing some code on the whiteboard. At the end of the algorithm he outputs the result. Student raises his hand. Damn - recursion seemed pretty easy and I was hoping I wouldn't have to listen to any questions... oh well.

Professor: "Yes?"
Student: "What's kouwt mean?"
Professor: "Kouwt?"
Student: "Yes kouwt."
Professor: "I don't understand the question."
Student: "KOUWT! You have it written right there!"
Professor (totally confused): "...... where?"
Student: "-C- -O- -U- -T- - KOUWT! On the last line on the board."
Class: *silent*
Me: *dying of laughter*
Professor: *holding back laughter*
Professor: "Computer programming might not be the best field for you."

He then totally ignores the question and moves on.

Non-programmers... cout << "text"; is the first thing you learn to do in programming level I. To call it "kouwt" and not know what it does in a level 3 class is like jumping up on the teacher's desk and yelling "LOOK AT ME I'M A MORON!!!"

[David H]

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Student: "What's kouwt mean?"

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This is really, really bad. Makes you wonder how he made it through 2 years of programming without knowing what cout means.

[otnemem]

So wait... How's it pronounced?