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#5959 + ()/40 - [ Report ]
// Mr. Stueben is discussing the importance of tenure as a teacher
Mr. Stueben: The head of the math department came up to me and told me to stop giving so many quizzes because students were dropping out of my class.
Mr. Stueben: So, I stopped. Then, after two days, I started giving them again. I simply couldn't resist.
Mr. Stueben: The things you can do when you have tenure. -
#4959 + ()/46 - [ Report ]
// Talking about pregnancy and labor in FLE
Mr. McFaden: Many women are embarrassed about having their water break in public. Here's something you guys can do: When you're in the supermarket (and you won't be in many other places), buy a glass pickle jar. When the woman's water breaks, you step back and drop the pickle jar, and it makes a loud noise. Then she says, "You fool! You got pickle juice all over me!" -
#4183 + ()/42 - [ Report ]
// In English, discussing literature
Miller: Mr. Struck, isn't it true that Freud based some of his theories on Shakespeare's plays?
Struck: (incredulously) Are you asking me? I have no idea!
Miller: (to class) And there are things like the Oedipus complex-
Struck: Do you want me to look on Wikipedia for you? -
#2647 + ()/42 - [ Report ]
// AP Gov, on a tangent...
Mr. Torrence: So did you guys know that William and Mary were not only husband and wife, but also first cousins?
Mr. Torrence: Fortunately, they didn't have any children. Can you imagine? If they had a son, they would be able to say "This is my son/first cousin once removed." ...And if the son had a brother, he could say "this is my brother/second cousin."
Mr. Torrence: Whoa, this is beginning to sound a lot like West Virgnia.
Mr. Torrence: Also, I didn't say that. -
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// Talking about who should be saved if there was a nuclear war in Sacks World History
Mr. Sacks: I would let all the scientists live and the philosophers die.
Student: What about the teachers?
Mr. Sacks: If you teach biology or chem, you live. If you teach history, you die.
