“Marking Those Papers Broke Me”: 40 Times Students Stunned Their Teachers With Their Stupidity

I remember a professor who gave 1 point for filling in your name correctly... and some people still somehow managed to get a 0 on the test :D

I don't think this is necessarily 'stupidity'. Never running into a word throughout life at taht point doesn't mean you're dumb. Sure, an argument could be made that intelligence can be nurtured through exposure and learning, and never being exposed to "surname" could be through a lack of wanting to learn or whatever. But regardless, the fact that language evolves and words regularly fall out of favor/use means this is will continue to happen. Almost nobody uses "Master" (as in "Mister" and "Misses") when addressing a young boy anymore, I just happen to know it because my grandmother used to address written letters to me in that way. You not knowing "Master" doesn't mean you're stupid

These guys went to Hollywood Upstairs Medical College, too!

Hell.. I'm 60 and don't know 100% what my surname is.... not a big deal.

Im gnna have to call this one more of a cultural thing.... my parents never used the term surname, and the only reason I know what it means is when I was asked what my surname was by my British friends' parents in grade school

Happens way more often than you'd think. Of course, the flip side is when kids are amazed to find out that you have a home or a family. They just figure teachers hang from the classroom ceiling at night like bats, I guess.

If that's a young child, say 8yo or younger, I think a child-centred view of the world is forgivable. It's a development process.

I used to work in my local pre school and so many of the kids were so surprised if they saw me come out my house or in my garden or just out with my dog.

Ah this depend on the age of the child. I work in a Kindergarten and it happens quite offen that a child things I live right there in the Kindergarten and asked me what I Do for a living.

Kid heard the teacher say "Teaching isn't a job, it's calling" and took that literally /j

Probably just as effective as the angrily chest pounding when they give up; it always works in the movies.

On something so important, you should NEVER get them to show what they 'think' it might be. The examples were obviously dramatic, and unfortunately at least one of the 'underbrained' will remember that dramatic thing as the 'take home' point for the lesson. Funny to watch, but not so funny if they attempt it in real life.

The best method of performing CPR is to do the chest compressions to the tune of "Staying Alive" by the Bee Gees. Think about that one.

All the people in the restaurant are looking at me laughing! Thank you so much

of course, you elbow drop people to get air back in their lungs!

If… she weighs more than a duck…

Just wait until they learn you can make a boat out of concrete.

If you're getting this consistently, you need to change your teaching game. You are not explaining things as clearly as you think you are. Maybe you have been doing this for awhile now and have developed a rut, step out of your comfort zone and find a new way.

Geology needs many field trips for these reasons.

Did they never play with toys in the bath? Some things are just obvious because you've done the experiments by playing with toys.

A bit unfair. The student hasn’t just believed what they read; they literally questioned it.

Of course they did. Abe was a pioneer in that regard; he delivered the Gettysburg Address via Zoom

When you stop to think about this one, all kids in school today, right down to undergraduates, have never lived in a world without the internet. At best the internet was ver primitive when they were born. I suddenly feel very old (GenX).

That joke doesn't work unless someone actually reads it on the internet. Not saying the students are college material, but I have to side them on this one.

At least student asked.