Education

Dude: “I am Legend”? God, learn to grammar.

High School classroom
Englewood, Colorado

Professor: Can anyone give me an example of an equal relationship?
Student: Husband and wife?
Professor: Oh, you’re so idealistic…

Marist College
Poughkeepsie, New York

British professor: I was walking around Oxford one day and I heard these two young lads, couldn’t have been more than eight, say “bitches and hoes.”
Student: Could you please say that phrase again?
British professor: … No.

University of San Diego
San Diego, California

Overheard by: Leah

Philosophy professor: Whatever you do guys, you can’t let Descartes come through the back door!
Students: [Laugh hysterically.]Philosophy professor: It’s not funny! Descartes always tries to come through the back door!

University of Portland
Oregon

Overheard by: B Student

Female professor: I may not be the best literary critic of the century, but I know when I’m in a fucking whorehouse.

Combs Hall
Fredericksburg, Virginia

Student: I have this irrational fear of being clunked over the head and shipped to a country whose alphabet I don’t know, so I’m trying to learn all these alphabets… I must be paranoid, I don’t know.

Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland

Overheard by: l_tau

Professor: So what sorts of people travel abroad and exploit children that are forced into prostitution?
Student: Canadians.
[Class remains silent and professor stares.]Student: …I… Was just kidding.

Las Positas College
Livermore, California

Professor: I thought this was made up, but then I read it in a book, which of course means it?s true.

East Carolina University
Greenville, North Carolina

Annoyed suit: Sir, don’t make me break out the “Canterbury Tales!”

Washington, DC

Guy: Dude, I’m totally getting sexiled by my pre-frosh tonight.

Duke University
Durham, North Carolina

Overheard by: Blue Devils