Education

Teacher holding VCR remote control: I keep hitting play, this stupid thing won't work. Must need new batteries.
(changes batteries)
Teacher: Damn thing still won't work, you'd think they would buy machines that work, how are you supposed to learn with such crappy materials?
Student in front row: Ummm… Is that the tape on top of the VCR?
Teacher: Goddamn it!

Manchester, New Hampshire

Female Brown student #1: That lab class is so stupid.
Female Brown student #2: Yeah. Harry Potter had the best labs.
Female Brown student #1, sighing: I wish this was Hogwarts.

Providence, Rhode Island

Overheard by: Sadie

Student, raising hand: I can't read…
Professor: I'm sorry.

San Francisco State University
San Francisco, California

Overheard by: The Only One Laughing?

Professor: Here you are, every day, sitting in this little cave which is evolutionary very stupid. You're not reproducing while you are in here. You aren't even trying to… Well, maybe that's not true.

Psychiatric Physiology Class
Pomona, California

Overheard by: Whats He talking about again???

Teacher: So, he gets this chick to marry him and she leaves her princess life in wherever, and now he's dreaming about mud!

Columbia, Missouri

Student, after teacher announced students would take turns to read: Erm, excuse me… Why can't we read quietly for ourselves?
Teacher, with mock shock: Because… We're here together! This is a room full of communion and harmony!

University of Zurich
Switzerland

Overheard by: Stephie

Five-year-old daughter: Daddy, ask me some math questions.
Father: Okay, what is 4 x 4?
Five-year-old daughter: It's not 9!
Father: That's correct.

McDonald's
Manhattan, New York

Overheard by: Michael Moore

Biology teacher: Today we are going to learn to make a wet mount.

Tampa, Florida

Overheard by: the one chortling in the back

Teacher: Who was right in the American Revolution?
(silence)
Student: We were?
Teacher: We were! God, I thought you were all communists for a minute.

Kalamazoo, Michigan

Middle-aged man: So the other day my friend asked me to borrow some porn tapes. He said he needed to teach his son about the birds and the bees.

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Overheard by: the wirled