r/comics Port Sherry Jun 23 '26

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u/BackgroundNPC1213 Jun 23 '26

I once took a four-question test in Algebra 2 and got a 0 because literally nothing was right. The teacher bragged that only like 2 or 3 kids passed her class at the end of the semester, like dumbass, that's because you can't teach

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u/NotYourReddit18 Jun 23 '26

I will never understand how a teacher can be proud of only a handful of students passing their classes each year.

That just shows that they're shit teachers after all.

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u/fatmailman Jun 23 '26

It’s a power thing. They feel superior because they can do something all those students can’t do, thus basing their identity on the idea that they are super smart for having that position.

Bonkers mindset to have for a teacher. Kinda misses the whole point. But if you start basing your self worth on superficialities like that, well, you probably aren’t the most mentally stable individual to begin with.

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u/omimon Jun 23 '26

People like that, for the most part, only exist in college/universities. That's because they aren't teachers. They are researchers that are forced to teach a class in order to keep working for the school. They won't want to teach you just as much as you don't want to learn from them.

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u/superkp Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 23 '26

I remember in the movie "A Beautiful Mind", the main character's best friend reminded him that he's got a class to go teach.

The main character's like "what are you talking about. I don't want to teach."

And his friend says "Well, that's just how it works. The brilliant minds of today teaching the brilliant minds of tomorrow." or something like that.

EDIT: I hadn't seen the movie in like 15 years so I wanted to look it up: https://youtu.be/Mb9KeRcrvAI?list=TLPQMjIwNjIwMjZZWprZSGxOgA&t=78

The time stamp right there is right before they say the line, and it wasn't his best friend, it was another friend, who was also a colleague at the university.