Worst professor

[RedImperator]

If it were George C. Scott doing it, it might be cool.

(A cookie to the first person with the reference)

[TheDarkOne]

"My Intro to Philosophy teacher often used the argument that Newtonian physics had supposedly been canceled out/overridden by the weird freaky unpridictability of Einstein's realativity, in order to make Science looks as incompetent as philosophy."

First, Science is based very heavily on philosophy, you could probably say science is philophy. Second, Einsteins Realativity is not "unpredictible', perhaps you're thinking of quantum theory. Third, newtonian physics is "overridden" (in a certian sense) by relitvity, sure Newtonian physics is still pretty accurate at non-relitivistic speeds, but that doesn't matter in this case.[/i]

[Johonebesus]

I once had a communications instructor who did a lesson on the rise of conservatism in the U.S. The reading included a very long and very detailed article about Kirk/Spock slash. With lots of illustrations. None of us could ever figure out how exactly that related to the lesson. This was at a conservative Southern Baptist college no less. Luckily, he was gone the next semester. I may be gay, but there are some things that just should not be. I haven't been able to watch Star Trek without cringing since.

[Hamel]

I had this economics instructor who was pretty much a hard-right libertarian dick. Stupid fucker said there was nothing wrong with child labor. He spent half the class period calling everybody morons.

[Nathan F]

If it were George C. Scott doing it, it might be cool.

(A cookie to the first person with the reference)

Oh, Oh, PATTON!

[Defiant]

The worst for me was a Calculus professor. He not only demanded the right answer, but if you didn't put your calculations in the exact format that he wanted, you got ZERO points. No partial credit, even if you got the right answer.

[Master of Ossus]

I had a HS Chem teacher one year. In fact, I don't think she was a teacher. She was never observed to teach anybody anything.

Her typical (non-lab) class was as follows:

Come in, turn in your homework, take a quiz on the homework you just turned in. Without getting your homework back, ask questions you had ABOUT the homework you had turned in at the start of the period. Ask for questions about the quiz. Then listen to a lecture about what you SHOULD have learned while doing the homework you had just turned in. Repeat ad nauseum.

What was worse were her tests. She used AP questions, but what she didn't realize was that on the AP Chem test, there have been years where you get a 5 for answering 60% of the questions correct. If you get 60% on her tests correct, you get a D-.

[tharkûn]

Let me just quote my worst professor:
"I am required by university policy to have office hours; they are Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday 1:00-2:00 AM. My office number is #-####. Do not come and do not call; doing so will negatively effect your grade."

Now the guy was frikking brilliant, I've never had a more knowledgable biochem prof ... the problem was he hated teaching, and he loathed teaching undergrads unfortunately for us every eighth semestre he was obligated to teach an undergrad class. Everything he could possibly pawn off on the TA, he did. Once he canceled class because he couldn't be pried away from an experiment to give the damn lecture.

I mean he was a brilliant researcher (given the awards, grants, patents, and publications he had), but he did nothing else (he had a frikking cot in his office). Why universities force people who are pure researchers to teach is beyond me.

[Master of Ossus]

I had this economics instructor who was pretty much a hard-right libertarian dick. Stupid fucker said there was nothing wrong with child labor. He spent half the class period calling everybody morons.

Most economics professors are conservative, in the same way that most history teachers are liberals. This doesn't surprise me, particularly.