DrJim

In an intro world religions course I taught last year I got some good responses in exams and some interesting statments in essays.

One student told me that the Bible describes how Jesus was "tempted by satin". I had visions of Jesus in a kinky lingerie shop, looking at something really slinky and mumbling, 'Ohhhh, imagine Mary Magdalene in something like that...".

Had another student tell me that that "The crusades were started by King Arthur because he was mad at the Islams". This from a second year education student: I'm grateful I don't have kids.

A third told me how, during Passover, Jews not only thank God for delivering them from slavery, but they also pray for "the eradication of all enslaved people". I bet they don't.

Made me check my notes and the text book REALLY carefully!
Does make one wonder sometime!



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WWSD

The best answer I ever got from a student was in my histology lab when the student identified a piece of aorta as brain tissue.

Not so funny unless you know histology I guess.

CX

I never cease to be amazed by the profound stupidity of people who manage nonetheless to inhale and exhale.

I was once talking to a rather, shall we say, "colorful", young woman in a rural part of Illnois and the subject of bilingual education came up (my nephew is half puerto rican). Anyway she says, I shit you not...and she really wasn't joking, "If English is good enough for the bible and good enough for Jesus then it's damn well good enough for school."

DrJim

I remember the first day of a class on Biblical Prophetic Literature at a completely secular, state run university. The prof. went through the usual routine of getting everyone to say who they were and why there were interested in the course. One guy said, "So many of the Bible's prophecies have come true I want to know what is going to happen next!"

Sheesh, you figure he could have saved his tuition, waited a week and bought a newspaper...

ieyeasu

I had a young Jewish boy (Jewish ethnically, apparently) that Passover was so named because the Jews passed over the holiday of Easter.

I was forced to forcibly disabuse him of this.

Kilted Canuck

People in my Science 10 class last year were amazed to learn that there were more than 4 elements in the world.

I don't know how fifteen year olds could be basing their science on something that had been debunked hundreds of years ago...

Defiant Heretic

I get it, and I'm not even sure what histology is. (I could probably guess based on the joke, though.)

Godot

Wanna learn about histology?

I just finished marking lab reports last week. For materials and mathods, they were told it would be sufficient to provide a citation to the lab manual, referencing the appropriate pages and demarking where they varied from the protocols.

A number of students submitted their reports telling me to go find Lab Manuel .

...

Uh...wow. Just...wow. Amazing. I always thought that was a joke line, but a Christian who is ignorant of his/her own holy book? On second thought, that's to be expected.

Mageth

...For materials and mathods,....A number of students submitted their reports telling me to go find Lab Manuel .

Perhaps revenge for making them learn all those darned mathods.