My eldest child told the kids in his 1st or 2nd grade class he was from the third planet from the sun. They didn't believe him but asked the teacher, who agreed. A lot of kids were convinced for quite a while they were going to school with an alien.

@Robert08010

10 ай бұрын

Did you have him tested? That's a real life "Sheldon" moment right there.

@uselesscause3178

9 ай бұрын

​@@Robert08010 I did not. He was not what teachers wanted. He questioned everyone, everything, all the time. Loudly. Persistently. He is in his 40's now and has some code of his patented. So, you are probably right. I should have and the schools should have offered.

@DinoRicky

7 ай бұрын

@@uselesscause3178tbh you kinda…… Not in your youth But still cool you still use youtube

@uselesscause3178

7 ай бұрын

@@DinoRicky My parents are in their 90's and love YT. I still miss BBS's and installing hardware long before plug and pray. Not in my youth? I am as old as Thyme and dang thrilled about it.

@theswclan1914

7 ай бұрын

@@uselesscause3178that’s the best way reply I have heard in a long time, thank you.

“Are hyenas real or just some made up creatures from The Lion King?” This was asked by a girl in my genetics lab in college.

@lenee8959

Жыл бұрын

😬😂

@cute_protogen

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@AnimsOfTheAnims

Жыл бұрын

💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

@WolverinePlayz2003

Жыл бұрын

😂

@Infact77

Жыл бұрын

bro 🤣

To quote my late grandmother "There are no stupid questions only stupid people."

@TheTooBig

Жыл бұрын

I have heard it phrased as "there are no stupd questions, only stupid answers"

@Vinemaple

11 ай бұрын

You can't fix stupid, or as we used to say in World of Warcraft, you can't heal stupid.

@ViolosD2I

11 ай бұрын

@@TheTooBig There are no stupid questions, but there are curious idiots.

@larry01902

9 ай бұрын

​@@Vinemaplebut stupid can become famous/infamous; look at Leeeeeeeeeeeroy Jennnnnnkins.

@OfficialShiggySimp

7 ай бұрын

What a wise woman.

My son's favorite story is from high school. A girl in his class was always asking dumb questions. One day the teacher had it and when she asked what something meant, he put a dictionary on her desk. When she asked how to spell the word, she was told, with a P. She then went on to ask, "How do you spell P?" Yes, she asked how to spell the letter P. Everyone in class turned to stare at her. The teacher paused for several seconds and then went on with class.

@AnimeKat8849

Жыл бұрын

I'd probably quit on the spot otherwise I might commit a felony (I'm not fit for teaching at all... Yet again I'm pretty sure you'd need Buddha or some diety to deal with that)

@ukitkatcello6306

Жыл бұрын

Ngl I knew someone who would do that and you would never be able to tell if they were asking just to mess with you or they genuinely didn’t know

@roxaskinghearts

11 ай бұрын

the internet as we know it came out in 2000 or 1960 the only math you will ever use is addition and multiplication never division or beyond vegans die from sugar and other things because they dont like the taste and struggle with a balanced diet people also die from steak and egg meals when you are not baki's

@Vinemaple

11 ай бұрын

I've theorized that some people never bother to learn how to figure things out for themselves, but just expect everyone to explain everything to them. And when you encourage them to work it out for themselves, they will always pick the stupidest possible answer, in the hopes that you will never ever force them to use their own brains ever again. And then there are girls who have been taught, accidentally or on purpose, that men only find stupid women attractive. Went to high school with one of those. She was sharp enough that I almost missed it. I wish I'd encouraged her to join the drama club!

@anvilsvs

11 ай бұрын

Ah, you can't fix stupid.

“What does AD stand for” “After dinosaurs” I mean, she’s not wrong

"What are those pyramid shaped things in Egypt called?" They literally answered their own question 😂

@valenciageode25

3 сағат бұрын

That’s like the spoken version of using your phone flashlight to find your phone.

@samsimington5563

Сағат бұрын

@@valenciageode25 Yeah or finding your car by accidentally pressing the panic but on the key fob

When i was in high school, we were doing a crossword puzzle for an assignment, when I asked if we had a thesaurus, my 16 year old sister asked, "why do you need a dinosaur?"

The kid who thought that George from _Of Mice and Men_ was a mouse had me dyin'

I can top this. We were reviewing rocks and came to limestone. One kid asked if there were limes in limestone, then if there were lemonstones.

@aLittlebbean

Жыл бұрын

That's mind blowing

@sybsygstgstsgysg5330

Жыл бұрын

Ain’t no way he wasn’t trying to be funny

@lottipenta462

Жыл бұрын

What grade? I can imagine this at 1st or 2nd grade maybe...

@StuartR.

Жыл бұрын

@@lottipenta462 like the week before summer in 8th grade

@lottipenta462

Жыл бұрын

@@StuartR. (>-

A kid was hammering in a screw with the back of a screwdriver

@bananaking1003

Жыл бұрын

It would work to an extent

@StuartR.

Жыл бұрын

@@bananaking1003 yeah

@w.reidripley1968

Жыл бұрын

Somebody evilly asks, "Kid, do you eat French fries with a spoon?"

@jcellwood

11 ай бұрын

In England, people from Birmingham (in the West Midlands, not Alabama) are generally regarded as amazingly unintelligent. To be fair, it's the accent that makes them tend to sound as ill-educated as anything, although there's enough smoke to believe there's a fire. For an example of a mild Brummie accent, Neville Longbottom is your guy. Anyway, you can refer to a hammer as a Brummie screwdriver.

I laughed at the thought of living in a shelter made of stacked buffalos

@samsonkrueger5295

11 ай бұрын

They are bison

Back when I was about 12, more years ago than I care to remember, I faced a question in a test, how is the city council financed? I experienced brain freeze, and answered, with money.

@Vinemaple

11 ай бұрын

Not stupid, really. Question's kind of open-ended and vague.

@nullhazard7569

2 ай бұрын

You're not wrong.

I had a classmates ask our Spanish teacher (this was our 3rd year of voluntary Spanish, we had like 3 people including her) if we were learning Mexican or Spanish. You could tell by the look in her eyes she was dead serious. Teacher had just started explaining the differences in Spanish from different regions

@Vinemaple

11 ай бұрын

Ahh, that's just ignorant. At least, the first time.

@davidhomer78

10 ай бұрын

I knew people in Texas from South America that insisted that Mexicans did not speak Spanish. There are a lot of differences. I can hardly understand people from Liverpool at all but they call it English.

@uselesscause3178

10 ай бұрын

​@@davidhomer78 In Florida. Can Confirm. In the South we have expressions that a Mid-Western might not know and vice-versa. Additionally words can be added or change meanings. In Florida coke is all soda. One gent I knew asked me for a Bas-cart. I use cart or buggy for the same object. Our accents hold longer on certain vowels and certain geographical areas add an r sound to words. "Warsh vs Wash" is one example. Mexico Spanish is Spain Spanish, but with a cultural dialect all it's own.

@jaredlittleford1217

9 ай бұрын

Spanish is well on its way to becoming nine different languages.

student: can i drink this? chemistry teacher: the solution is bright blue with a hazardous label on it. me: *takes a sip from my cool blue Gatorade*

My favorite one 😂😂😂 "It means you can't ha- oooooh" 😂😂😂

@nullhazard7569

2 ай бұрын

At least that student realized they were wrong.

Another student in one of my college microbiology classes: “If it’s an STD, how does it get in the throat?” Maybe more if a naive question than a stupid question.

@StephanieMT

10 ай бұрын

Since a lot of people arent taught sex education that can be understood as to why they asked that question

Some of these has to do with teachers not understanding the questions being asked, and the kid (still being a kid) not knowing how to ask the question.

This was a question asked to my twin sister and me by our French teacher in high school. He asked us who named us. I replied with “Our parents.” The whole class laughed. As soon as he realized what he said, he admitted it was a stupid question.

The pyramid question could lead to an etymology discussion. We call them pyramids because the Ancient Greeks thought they looked like a type of honey wheat cakes common at the time, so they used the word pyramis to describe them. The actual name given to them by the Ancient Egyptians, however, was 'Mer'. Thus, the English word pyramid (used to describe a shape) comes from the shape of a loaf of bread, which was probably conical and not pyramidal (the Egyptians made conical loaves and cakes, which feature prominently in heiroglyphs). Each pyramid had its own name, for instance the Great Pyramid had the name Akhet Khufu which means Khufu's Horizon, which is a hell of a lot cooler than "great pyramid".

@Vinemaple

11 ай бұрын

This is awesome information, but I can't stop thinking, now, about how for a few months in the 1990s everyone would shout out "MER!" every time they heard something they thought was stupid or boring.

teacher: Ok, everyone answer questions 1 through 5 on page 88. student: What page? teacher: 88 other student: do we do all 10 questions? teacher: no, you only have to do 1 through 5. 3rd student: what page was that? teacher: page 88 4th student: I don't see the questions teacher: they start near the bottom. 5th student: what page are we on? me (already reading first question and getting distracted internally screaming) "I am going to slap every one of you all the way to Mars! That was literally every day of grades 6-12 in one class or another.

@dianef4227

11 ай бұрын

I think I taught the same students

@anvilsvs

11 ай бұрын

@@dianef4227 I think they're my mayor and city council.

One time I was laughed at when I corrected a boy who was reading aloud to the class about WW2 and said WW Eleven. More than half the class thought I was dumb and that there had been at least 11 World Wars.

@channel_._.

Жыл бұрын

American moment

@w.reidripley1968

Жыл бұрын

Thought that way for a little while myself when I was a sprout and we got a series of history books... before I was quite au courant with Roman numerals. "Okay, World War I, that's obvious (and I'd heard of world wars), but then they skip to Eleven? Didn't the others even rate?" So Dad explained.

@MsGbergh

11 ай бұрын

He is probably a narrator for Reddit stories now. They can't tell by context if R-E-A-D is pronounced to 'red' or 'reed'. Another word that jars is 'cow worker' . Do they (or their programmers) get their education from the 'Cow-op?'

@jerryrose2083

11 ай бұрын

Actually more like nine, give or take one or two, depending on who is doing the counting. Our French and Indian War was a part of the real First World War, While the Cold War was usually number 10 or 9, depending on who is doing the count. Offhand, I can’t think of any other group who numbers World Wars quite like we English speakers do.

@w.reidripley1968

11 ай бұрын

@@jerryrose2083 France comes pretty close, figuring as heavily in WW1 and WW2 as they did. Perhaps it's a downside of having an empire, a/k/a imperialism? Both wars had empires slugging it out. You can even count in Italy. And this may be why imperialism got the bad name it now has and then didn't.

So, here's some things I remember from my time in school: "where's south africa located?" "what's pinguins made of? are they made of fish?" "is China the capital of Russia or what's the deal with 'China'?"

@btf_flotsam478

11 ай бұрын

Classic American geography.

Story #11: Good on the OP for making the student part of that day's ten thousand. Story #17: I think you mean "oscillate". And _that_ depends on the fan. Story #19: Given how many superhero origin stories play fast and loose with science, I wouldn't be surprised if that was used in an origin story at some point. Story #37: Good on the OP here for doing their best to make their students part of that day's ten thousand. Story #43: Kids that young are very literal-minded. You really have to be specific. Story #47: Given how many exotic-colored beverages exist in the world, a bright blue beverage is hardly a novelty these days. (Heck, it wasn't a novelty even when I went to school, and I graduated from college nearly twenty years ago.) I'd emphasize the hazard label when telling them that no, you can't drink that.

@lycantabris

11 ай бұрын

#19 - This was used in the Twilight saga. Specifically in Breaking Dawn to explain the werewolves and half-vampires.

@user-yc6uz9ot5f

8 ай бұрын

The teacher knew it was “oscillate;”Ovulate” was the student’s mistake.

@j.p3289

6 ай бұрын

I get the xkcd reference!

Someone in my class, after a child prodigy came to our class, asked our teacher "are you in love with her?" To be clear, he wasnt seen in that classroom the rest of the week

I once was an instructor training new prison officers, and one of the sections that was presented was on cultural awareness and dealing with diverse populations. In one section we were looking at Native Americans and some of the cultural issues that arise when dealing with these individuals, when a female trainee raised her hand and asked "Native Americans are not from the USA are they?" I admit I just stopped as my brain short circuited for a few seconds before answering the question.

I'm Australian. We have first nations people who are dark as the night. My Uncle used to play with hide and seek with the lights out for fun and it gave him an edge. Touch his foot and you'd found him. Great fun! He had a weakness though that he would giggle and smile while we were searching for him and his teeth lit up in the moonlight. It was a giveaway. I was walking down the street one day with my darker cousin and an American tourist stopped and asked us how we were related. I said he was my cousin. American congratulated him on how well he had picked up the Aussie accent. We were confused. The guy then went on to explain how all black people who weren't living in Africa were African American and that my cousin was clearly of African American origin. I sat and listened as my cousin gave him a lesson about black being a skin colour due to exposure to the sun and evolutionary trait, and that he was actually not that dark (my Aunt - his Mum - is white). American looked confused and walked away shaking his head.

@patrickporter6536

8 ай бұрын

An American once told me that all blacks in Africa live in Soweto. Me, a white South African. He was also surprised that I work in Soweto three or four times a month.

@Aduysvmncmkouyf

4 ай бұрын

Sounds like an American dumb made up story

7:55 I get questions like that all the time. After reading a story about shipwrecked pirates, a students asked, "why don't they just call for help on their cell phones?"

@futurehistoryarchaeologist4480

Жыл бұрын

There's an interesting video I watched on the topic regarding the use of instantaneous long distance communication in the fantasy and sci fi genres (Not exactly the same thing since it sounds like yours is historical fiction or contemporary fiction from a previous point in history). Even in settings where magic or advanced technology can hypothetically accomplish it, you never really saw it being used until the invention of cell phones. You saw it rarely after phones in general where invented, but cell phones forever changed how we view and engage with the world around us. For better or worse, everyone can be in constant contact with anyone else they know as well as public services and emergency lines. I was born in the 90's and growing up, cell phones were around but not everyone had one. Kids with phones weren't necessarily rare, but not everyone had one. So people not being able to reach out for help in a bad situation isn't something foreign to me. But it makes some degree of sense that younger generations who were born into the world of constant communication would struggle to think of a world without it. Obviously it's a silly mistake to make but it's not one I couldn't understand.

@Vinemaple

11 ай бұрын

Because magic hadn't been invented yet

The correct answer to "Can I drink this?" is "Yes, but only once."

Ah yes, the illogical mindset of some people is hard to fathom... For example.... A number of years ago, one Sunday morning, a group of us were sitting around, discussing a movie we went to see the night before. After a few minutes, a sister of one of the group came in and asked what we were talking about... I replied, "The movie we went to see last night, "Close Encounters of the Third Kind". Without a second thought she then said... "Oh Yeah.. I was going to see that, but it wouldn't make any sense to me...I've never seen the first two."

We were in Social Studies learning about the Bubonic Plague and there was a painting showing skeletons picking up the dead (to signify that if you were picking up the dead you were already dead). A girl raised her hand and asked if skeletons were real back then 😭

@Vinemaple

11 ай бұрын

In her defense, she might have been confused by seeing a medieval painting that showed something that wasn't real.

@LatedawnsandEarlysunsets

11 ай бұрын

@Vinemaple yeah, probably :)

@creepyone3348

4 ай бұрын

No, back then people slithered like snakes

@ferretqueen2908

4 ай бұрын

Did she think humans were giant earthworms back then or something?

@ferretqueen2908

4 ай бұрын

​@@creepyone3348 can't be a snake without a skeleton

Way back in 97, a guy was not paying enough attention to our science teacher.. she made him stand up after about 15 minutes into the chapter, and asked him the name of the chapter.. and he confidently replied 'magnesium', and the expression on the face of our teacher was priceless.. bcoz it was actually 'magnetism'.. one of my most memorable moments in school 😁

@rosiefay7283

Жыл бұрын

Slip of the tongue, perhaps?

@manumathews7221

Жыл бұрын

@@rosiefay7283 hehe.. thank you so much for reading 🙏 you just won't believe in some of the incidents that happen here! It's truly other worldly 😁 on one extreme, there are these highly intelligent students and teachers; and on the other, there are some of us, who got some deep mystical knowledge about things :) just somewhere around the same year, i remember one of our English teachers explaining a poem, which had a line that went something like 'T is my forefather's hand'.. the poem was about a 'tree', or atleast something similar! Just try and guess what explanation she gave for that 'T' in the beginning of that line! She went on, saying 'T' is a T-shaped wooden walking stick used by old people 🤯 she looked so confident that even i started doubting myself :) dunno why i didn't stop her, or ask her about it! Finally, she was humble enough to admit her fault, and to explain it correctly to the whole class, when we had an exam, later.. Bcoz, I explained it correctly in my answer sheet.. she also told the class, that someone has written it correctly, and asked if he/she could stand up.. and just like before, I didn't.. 😊 thanks a lot, for reading such a long comment 🙏

In story 31, I'm wondering how many literalists whizzed in their water bottles.

@Facetiously.Esoteric

11 ай бұрын

I wondered the same.

On a field trip, one of the "slow" kids asked "what time the 4:30 bus comes?" You made a lot of us laugh, Bruce.

@fractalgem

3 ай бұрын

To be fair, some places the busses arrive at waaay wrong times.

So in my school, if you don't join band or anything you have this thing called music exploration. We had to name instruments and stuff and the teacher told us to name a string instrument. A kid raised his hand and said, "ohhh... I forget what they're called... they're made of like rock-" the teacher cut him off and said "electric guitar?"

Once had a fellow high-school student straight-faced ask our teacher, "If these hippies want grass, why don't they just mow their lawn?"

@MsGbergh

11 ай бұрын

How blessed! A high-schooler who has no experience of recreational and possibly illegal drugs! He might know cannabis by other names though.

The first story clearly is a prime example of why humanity is a failure.

My favorite: “Will we be doing anything important after the break?” I always want to say (but don’t), “No, I was pretty much going to waste the next hour. You might as well leave now.” I teach college chemistry, and the lecture sessions are 2 or 3 hours long, so we have mid-lecture breaks.

LMFAO THE OF MICE AND MEN ONE- I’M DYING- I JUST FINISHED THAT BOOK RECENTLY FOR MY CLASS-

I am over 60, and live in England. We did not get sex education until year 10, which at the time was the last year of compulsory schooling. By then, almost all of us knew how babies were made. We joked about the boys sitting separately from the girls, 'so no-one could do what they saw in the film.' Oral sex was not mentioned, either by the teacher or students. We were not taught how to do taxes either, but it's never been a problem as I have always been on 'Pay as you earn.'

A good teacher always says that there are no stupid questions And they’re all liars 😂

16:00 Confusing Martin Luther with Martin Luther King --- or perhaps intending to say Martin Luther but then reflexively continuing "King" --- an easy mistake to make. Like misspelling "threw" in a reddit post ridiculing a student.

“It’s a shame that stupidity isn’t painful.” -Old Key Chain

I'm a Portuguese history teatcher and when I was teatching how the King and the Royal Family (and most of the nobility) had to escape to Brasil to prevent napoleonic invading troops from ousting him of power and replace him with a new king (as Napoleon did in many other European countries), boarding ships and enduring a voyage of months, one of the students asked why didn't they take a plane. Honestly, I blame modern child's lit. I know for a fact that no one in school taught me there were no planes in that time (the early 1800's). But I read so many stories with kings and queens, princesses and princes, that I came to understand that their means of transport were either motioned by animals, to travel by land, or by wind, to travel by sea. Modern child's lit (I say modern, but I believe it's been happening for 50+ years - yes, I'm THAT old!) deals mostly (almost always) with present day events and ways of life, so children know nothing of the past (meaning they have no notion of time).

@MsGbergh

11 ай бұрын

The Bible mentions Joseph and Mary's flight to Egypt to escape from King Herod, and God driving Adam and Eve out of Eden, so I understand the confusion...

@jt2473

11 ай бұрын

@@MsGbergh The went via El Al business class.

I had a classmate ask during a geography class why the water wasn't falling off the earth. We were in 8th grade. My teacher was so confused that he had to draw what the student was thinking. The class was in shock by the confusion this student had.

@Robert08010

10 ай бұрын

His parent's might have been flat earthers.

@rollinolson3562

5 ай бұрын

Lots of adults are confused about this. Look at any globe, and you can see why. Globes don't indicate that *down* is at the center.

I was in class once, not sure what grade but it was higher than 5 I think, and we were learning about the middle east so my dumb ass asked it that's the place with hobbits and elfs and stuff. The teacher was really polite and said "no, that's middle earth" and I felt really dumb 😂 not my brightest momment and sadly not the last time I was dumb

Ok I got a story. We were talking about how experience is more important than grades, then he say “if you can choose the doctor that will give you heart surgery between a doctor that had 10 years of experience but all B’s and a doctor with 7 months of experience but all A’s which would you choose. Btw there is no stupid question.” I asked “Which one is cheaper.” He say “never mind there are very stupid questions.” Edit: this take place in the US in 7th grade

@kawaibakaneko

11 ай бұрын

The question was pretty smart! Both of them are still good doctor, so go for the cheapest 😂

@lomax343

11 ай бұрын

"Which one is cheaper?" is a very important question in the US, but completely irrelevant in the civilised world.

@Vinemaple

11 ай бұрын

That's not a stupid question if the surgery is taking place in the US.

@Trees100

10 ай бұрын

@@lomax343 "civilized world"? Is the US not civilized?

@lomax343

10 ай бұрын

@@Trees100 "America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilisation in between" - Georges Clemenceau (though it has been attributed to others). Whilst America tolerates poverty on a massive scale (minimum wage $7.25 an hour); whilst it tolerates two mass shootings a week but refuses to pass any gun laws; whilst its health system cares about nothing but profit, leaving millions of US citizens to suffer and die needlessly; then no, the USA can NOT be considered civilised.

My life long gal pals and I still laugh about this one.... In high-school, while we were discussing concentration camps and the holocaust, one of the cheerleaders asked this gem.... " So does that mean that the Nazis killed everyone named Julie (jew-lee 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️)? Another that my husband told me about one of his high-school class mates... The question asked was, "what is the natural state of ice?" Answer from a girl in the class, "Alaska?" 😂😂😂😂

I was in a computer design class in high school and this one kid CONSTANTLY asked how to do what we were doing. Often we had verbal and written instructions.

@Vinemaple

11 ай бұрын

Once again, never learned to work things out for himself, instead learned to use everyone else's brain to do his thinking. They're out there

@ninomitchell2039

11 ай бұрын

@@Vinemaple yeah basically. Worst part is, the people he typically asked to help started to slip grade-wise and even the teacher told him to, basically, f off, citing literally everything I said above.

Here in Italy a thing to ask kids is: “ what was the color of napoleon’s white horse?” And usually they get confused and say a random color.

8:00 I can relate to this because I once had to read Travels With Charlie in middle school. For those who don't know, it was a book published based on a collection of letters John Steinbeck (best known today for writing The Grapes of Wrath about the Dustbowl in the 1930s) sent to his wife travelling across the country to find the stories of regular people with his dog. One of my classmates asked why he didn't use FaceTime instead. The confused me not because at the time I didn't know what FaceTime (I didn't get my own phone until high school) but the lack of understanding of time in this case makes it dumber because we are all told about Steinbeck's history at the start including The Grapes of Wrath which should have been a dead giveaway.

Once, a student asked me if killing people was a crime.

"Can I drink this?" If you want a trip to the hospital or die. They tell you the dangers at the start of class.

how dare the background gameplay be of a ripoff subway surfers

I always imagined it's less THAT the question is asked, and more HOW it was asked. I remember sounding my dumbest when I assumed something that was wrong.

I actually used to think that color didn’t exist back then. It was embarrassing.

@helgam.4250

Жыл бұрын

To be fair... Color is a construct of the human mind.

I remember a student asking where my “off” button was, because, as he explained, “All teachers are just robots. And if you ask a robot to provide you the off switch, they have to do it” I just looked at him and asked him if he was a robot. “No, I’m human. I’m not an alien like *insert Jewish student’s name*, or a robot like all of you are.” Turns out his parents were big Alex Jones fans and was convinced by his father that my job was the harness his life force to destroy the earth…And he wanted to “turn off” the teachers so he could go home early without homework. His parents were contacted.

Fun fact: If your parents needed fertility treatment you're more likely to need fertility treatment when you try to conceive. So infertility is hereditary ... kind of.

During my student teaching: 8th grade student: "what's Missouri?" Me: "You mean the state of Missouri?" Him: "Yeah, what's that?"

@soupafi

Жыл бұрын

it'll be a cold day in hell before i recognize missouri

A 19-year-old in my maritime school used to troll the class with questions we thought were stupid: "Can a submarine do a barrel roll?" "How do magnets work?" Nowadays I realize he was just an early adopter of the memes. There was, however, a maritime engineering student, also 19, who asked, "Don't people just hang in midair for a moment, before they fall?" and "Do pirates still wear the hats and the fancy coats and stuff?" He was probably serious. Also 5:35 is every time I try to talk to my mother about something fictional. And every time I try to talk to her about something real, she asks me if it's a story.

I have a high school classmate who once asked my teacher if we're going to use a short or long folder to store our projects written in long bond paper, my teacher is so fed up with her questions that she screamed her answer by saying "of course use long folder, why would you store you long bond paper inside a short folder?!"

Had a classmate in 11th grade (yes, 11th fricking grade) unironically ask during a lesson on WW2 "who Holocaust was". My history teacher was unable to respond to that for at least 10 whole seconds. He just stood there looking kind of lost. Luckily for her it was at the end of the lesson and most students had already left but you gotta imagine we're in the middle of Europe, it's 2022, we're right next to Germany, everybody has access to the internet and WW2 had been the topic for LITERALLY THE LAST FEW WEEKS

Story 12: how you went all in on the situation reminds me of my American Problems class. Essentially government credit taught by a theatre kid and a stage crew kid. We had simulations of being in a totalitarian government, arguing cases in front of federal courts, political caucuses and managing an election, and finally what was model UN but with a custom program and for a grade. So glad we had guided notes so the class ran smoothly

In my career, which included some teaching for evey age group from fifth grade through seasoned professionals, one thing I retain is that it is far easier to handle "stupid" questions than the stupid mistakes happening because no one raised the question. So use each one as a teaching moment, such as guiding the questioner through "thinking" it out. Right behind that, being a lifetime learner myself, is to be patient and gentle with ALL learners. And about that "do they speak English in Texas" question ... they CAN, but they obviously cannot understand it any better than the rest of us when mixed up with Legalese and Biblethump. I gotta go along with "maybe" as my final answer 😢 !

We were learning about pirates in history class in 8th grade and this girl just excitedly shouted "pirates are real?" Unsurprising that she hasn't many friends

5:41 I completely understand the confusion. Yes it is the same sun. But it often seems like it isn't because it's so cold here in Scotland!

In high school, we had 15yo classmate allow for massive variables in her calculations on a project. Why? Because if the car would be faster in finishing the circuit if it's red. 🚘 girl legitimately thought red cars are inherently faster than any others 🤦

@krankarvolund7771

Жыл бұрын

If you're green and believe it sufficiently it works :p

@perpetualplanner

9 ай бұрын

The kid understands the waghhh energy

6:26 Maybe not hereditary, but the odds of a baby being mutilated at birth are raised dramatically if the father was also mutilated at birth. Sort of like a vicious cycle of cope.

I was a school teacher. One day I set a, English comprehension test which required written answers to a short piece of text. One boy’s answers were really odd, so I asked him to re-do them. It got worse. He ended up writing reams of drivel before confessing it hadn’t occurred to him to actually read the text on which the questions were based.

"Gatsby was a Nazi." I couldn't stop myself from laughing.

@emberfist8347

Жыл бұрын

That is even dumber to my story. Someone in my class asked why John Steinbeck couldn't face-time his wife.

@rand0_b009

Жыл бұрын

@@emberfist8347 CRYING-

Freshman year world geography, my teacher said something about the USSR and a classmate said “What’s the USSR?” 😭😭😭

Carl Sagan made an important observation that during early years, children are loaded with questions. They have incredibly inquisitive minds and want to figure things out. Then something terrible happens around the transition into middle school, and kids stop asking questions and let their minds be dull. This is a horrifying thing. Did it ever occur to anyone that one possible explanation for this is because so many teachers label certain questions as "dumb" when they possibly mean "maybe not relevant to what we're talking about" etc. and simply are too busy to satisfy an inquisitive mind or someone from a different culture? If you let your child stop being inquisitive, (does not matter how obvious or out of context it might appear to you), you have failed as a mentor and educator and are contributing to the decline of our future. There are NO dumb questions. Ever. End of statement.

17:53 not knowing people speak English in Texas is one thing; but the ‘maybe’ response is not wrong, just because someone from a region can speak a language doesn’t mean that everyone from that region speak’s that language- some people speak more than one language

#17, the student clearly meant "oscillate". OP didn't seem to pick up on that.

8:08 To be fair, a lot of kids think the earlier decades looked just like the media depicting them, because it's the only source they have for that age. Thus, the 20s were silent, the 30s and 40s were sepia, the 50s were in black and white, the 60s were in color and washed out, the 70s looked like a polaroid with stereo sound but hissy, the 80s had synth music playing in the background, and the 90s finally had digital sound. (Though I had shaken off this notion when I was 7 or 8, myself)

That Of Mice and Men question of what does George do on the farm had me laughing so hard lol

To quote Einstein: "There is 2 things i considerate infite. The universe and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the 1st"

@anvilsvs

11 ай бұрын

Stupidity rules the world because Intelligence is finite, but stupidity is infinite.

But can we all agree that a fantasy history novel where the Huns are centaurs would be crazy cool! If done with care, and enough knowledge of history and cultural history if course

@lomax343

10 ай бұрын

It's speculated that the centaur myth had its origin when an ancient people who'd never seen horses encountered a horse-riding nomadic people - probably in Asia. This theory is given weight by the fact that the Aztecs - who'd never even heard of horses - thought the Conquistadors were a sort of centaur.

listening to these questions makes my brain cells decay

I am not a teacher and this is not happening class but a friend of mine back in high school legitimately asked what was Hitler's last name. The funniest s*** ever and it did not help that she was a blond. LOL

Wait 26 and he thinks commas are imaginary? How did he get to college without using any commas, his dissertations must be horrifying in terms of punctuations XD

I love that reaction to making the fan ovulate. “No, no I can not.”

There was a girl in my high school who asked what gravity was. I told her "it's what keeps airheads like you from floating away."

The extreme stupidity does seem to be worse in America. Pretty much the result of a school system that praises athletic prowess over academic achievements. Unfortunately, some American kids value being popular and athletic over being intelligent and considered 'a geek'.

@r.kellycoker9387

11 ай бұрын

If you're an American then you are the problem. Work harder at solving the problem, don't stand on the sideline pointing fingers.

@Facetiously.Esoteric

11 ай бұрын

Lmao The delicious irony of making broad sweeping generalizations about an entire country while insulting their education system... What country are you from that is such a glorious utopia?

@Pollywog124

5 ай бұрын

So true my buddy

"you didn't tell me what to wipe with" What!?!?

My teacher jokingly called sabertooth tigers vampire tigers and woolly mammoths hairy elephants and my friend believed him. He said it out loud in history

Not a teacher, but early in my foundation year of university, we were doing maths, and I mean REALLY simple maths. Solving linear equations, the easiest algebra out there. All of the values were on one side of the equation so it read "= 0". Someone evidently had no clue despite being 19 or 20 how algebra works, because when we were solving for the variable they asked COMPLETELY SERIOUSLY "What happened to the 0?" I've never wanted to bang my head against the wall more

A lot of these aren't necessarily stupid. Some are ignorant, some are just the wrong word

When I was a kid, black and white TV was still common, and a lot of shows were filmed in b & w. Even when color TV started gaining ground, stations ran old movies that were b & w. Also, the special effects in the old movies and TV shows were hokey by today’s standards. The effects folks did the best they could with what they had. It’s sad that a lot of young people today don’t appreciate the artistry that went into the old stuff. Working in b & w takes some skill. Certain colors don’t show up well in b & w. Also, making someone in a Godzilla or King Kong suit ravaging a miniature city work isn’t easy. They had to build physical models. I’ve seen some recent CGI stuff that hard to distinguish from reality. The old stuff may not have looked as real, but a lot of effort went into it.

Final lesson plan review, final semester. Student already has a job at the school she attended. She refers to Africa as a country. The instructor corrects, “Africa is a continent.” Student looked at him obviously wondering why he rudely interrupted her, and started over talking about Africa, the country.

6:06 I'm embarrassed about the fact it took me a whole minute to figure this one out... sigh

Chem teacher: dont mix water into acid My friend: Miss, how about juice.

In the lunch room where I work, fir some reason the topic of fish as pets came up. An ex coworker a grown ass woman turned to me and in seriousness tells me that fish were reptiles. I still have the scars on my tongue.

I like how at 4:25, OP didn't say bullying because the kids were justified.

"Teacher, why did they name it Titanic? I mean... if Titanic means disaster, wasn't it stupid to name the ship that in the first place?" Real chicken or the egg head scratcher there.

@lomax343

11 ай бұрын

That would explain the Tennesee Titans, though.

The dumbest question I've ever been asked is "How are you?" Now that statement alone sounds odd, but contextually, it was by a high-ranking chef who was kind of hard on me the day before. She'd taken me to my boss's office--with the both of them--and told me that I've been touching my coworkers too much ( *_casually,_* on arms or shoulders). I was always very outgoing and tactile at work. She told me that we need the workers to be comfortable in a good work environment. That I shouldn't talk about anything other than work and school or tell my stories, because they may be inappropriate or upsetting (can't remember her exact words) to others. Now yeah, I pretty much didn't have a filter, but I don't think I said anything *_horrible._* I only meant to have fun with my crew. I really didn't get specific information from the chef about subjects and references. She likes that I'm outgoing, but she made it sound risky and in need of limits. And again, that I shouldn't touch anyone without consent. And then the next day, she asked how I was. Like, WTF? What did she think? That I was doing well after she practically shamed me? If I didn't know any better, I'd say she was patronizing me--or just plain nuts. I should've said, "Uh....I'm sorry, I'm genuinely curious to ask, why would you ask me how I am after yesterday?" I'd kiII to know her point of view. Also, for the record, I own my mistakes at work, so I don't want anyone twisting it around into I'm making the chef the only bad guy. I didn't _mean_ any harm or discomfort. If I had known anyone would feel either, (though technically no one showed signs), I would _not_ have touched them. I am not a creep. But the chef made me feel like one. See, she shouldn’t have been so firm and in my face. A gentle, respectful talk for a couple minutes was all I needed. She shouldn’t have restricted me to handshakes only. Casual taps or pats or whatever are actually ok, as long as you don’t overdo them and it’s to friendly people who clearly enjoy you. I always thought it was perfectly innocent and natural, and I still do, in certain ways. Happens a lot at the bar parties I go to-total strangers. Besides, two middle-aged workers from the dining department have done it to me; I don’t condemn it. Also, the chef did not have to ask my boss if there was anything she wanted to add. How did she think that would make me feel? Not disrespected and like a criminal? HeII, my boss shouldn’t have been in the room at all; I deserved some dignity and comfort. I felt horrible. But of course, whenever I expressed this side on other videos, people would continue faulting me or saying the chef was right. To them, it was this side over the other. I felt like no one understood me or the gray areas I still think exist.

In a history lesson a while back, one of my friends, with about ten minutes left before we went, asked ‘Is this based on a true story?’ We were learning about Henry VIII

What still fascinates me about the concept of humanity is that in the course of our existence we have not yet managed to invent a school system that would be able to identify or even promote the smartest 10% of a group and no civilization has yet created a society that is actually led by the smartest 10%. In fact, our society supports the intellectual average more than the people who would be best qualified to lead a country, which may have something to do with the fact that the vast majority are above averagely smart.

Someone in my biology class asked: 'is climate change the fault of finnish immigrants?'

A girl in my H O N O R S Social studies class in highschool, while watching a black and white film asked "were the people really in black and white back then or was it just the film?"

@roxaskinghearts

11 ай бұрын

Reminds me about that one time a girl wet my honors dont ask its honestly better to let your imagination run wild with that one because its probably rather accurate

Even after all these examples, I still don't believe there are any dumb questions. There are ignorant questions but even then, it requires some intelligence to be able to ask an ignorant question so the question isn't dumb. But even if there are no dumb questions, there are some bad questions. If you disagree and think that all questions are good then let me ask you, "Why are you stupid?" You're forced to either acknowledge that I just asked a bad question or you're forced to admit that you are stupid. In discussions about politics, I often hear such bad questions where you lose if you answer the question but you also lose if you don't answer the question. The only way to win is to point out how bad the question was in the first place.

@rollinolson3562

5 ай бұрын

There are questions based on ignorance, and questions based on faulty logic. This post has both kinds. But even among the questions based on ignorance, there are some that are based on ignorance that is so profound that it's based on willful avoidance of the truth or simple stupidity.

@theunintelligentlydesigned4931

5 ай бұрын

@@rollinolson3562 Yes but doesn't it take a certain amount of intelligence to be able to twist one's brain into such a tight pretzel to be able to prevent becoming even more intelligent? It's like some people made it to the second grade and then warped their thinking so bad that they got stuck at second grade.