So we were analyzing this poem in class, and one girl said it had "an atheist attitude", to which the teacher replied "No no no, it mentions God, it can't!"
Cue me "it could be a metaphor for humanity's faith in divinity, not divinity itself..."
Teacher: "God is ALWAYS a metaphor! Even when ppl say 'oh my god', you don't know WHAT God or religion they believe in!"
Me: "they don't have to believe in God to say 'oh my God'..."
Teacher: "mentioning God means you believe in God!"
Guy in back row: "I'm an atheist, and I say 'oh, my God..."
Teacher: "well, are you baptised?"
Guy: "uh, yeah..."
Teacher: "well, if your parents are both Catholic, of course you're gonna say 'oh my God!' You were raised to think that way!"
Me: "both my parents are atheists, as am I. I say 'oh, my God' daily"
Teacher: "well, YOU'RE OUT OF CONTEXT!!!"
She got me there, you know. I'd never thought of it that way before...
(If anyone cares: the poem was by Antero De Quental, a Portuguese poet whom my teacher believes is "internationally well known". So I'm sure you will all be able to tell me all about him, how he compares to Kid606 and if we can eat him...)
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 26 September 2002 00:18 (twenty-three years ago)
Echoes of:
Homer: Ooh! It's that new show about the policeman who solves crimes in his spare time.
Bart: Crank it, Homer!
Chief: You busted up that crack house pretty bad, McGonigle. Did you really have to break so much furniture?
McGonigle: You tell me, Chief. You had a pretty good view from behind your desk.
Homer: Ah, McGonigle: eases the pain.
Chief: You're off the case, McGonigle!
McGonigle: You're off _your_ case, Chief!
Chief: What does that mean exactly?
Homer: [yelling] It means he gets results, you stupid chief!
Lisa: Dad, siddown.
Homer: Oh, I'm sorry.
― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 26 September 2002 02:25 (twenty-three years ago)
I was very annoyed with one English teacher when I was 11 or 12. We had to rewrite something from Treasure Island from the viewpoint of one of the characters. I chose a nameless pirate who died at the end of the scene I rewrote. The teacher marked me down because it was illogical, as the pirate could not write the story, having died. I expect my piece was approximately the kind of rubbish you'd expect from an 11 year old, but not for that extraordinarily small-minded reason.
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 20:54 (twenty-three years ago)
pah adult literature isn't held to the standard of logic (consistency, maybe, logic, no) so why would a kid's writing be?
Today my English teacher yelled at us for complaining about our unusually low grades on our first essay assignment and then made us read an article about how evil grade inflation is. I couldn't tell whether it was to say "look at the problems we teachers face" or "you all deserve to fail but i want to keep my job so you pass." it was sort of funny though.
― Maria (Maria), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 20:59 (twenty-three years ago)