Teachers

Teacher: Why are you guys talking back there?
Student: Oh, Roy*'s just talking to his eraser.

Los Angeles, California

Lecturer, about over-sized earrings left behind in class: Yes, you put one around the left testicle…

Christchurch
New Zealand

Professor: Nobody thinks they're eating brains!

Arizona State University

Overheard by: Mallory

Botany professor, lecturing on plant reproduction: Now, I'm sure you all know plenty about sex in humans by now. (pause) Because of the Ontario school system. (pause) And…stuff.

University of Toronto
Canadia

Overheard by: The Shrew

Preschool teacher #1: I wouldn't want to spill coffee on those shoes.
Preschool teacher #2: Why not?
Preschool teacher #1: Because they'd get coffee stains on them.

Rumson, New Jersey

Foreign language professor on first day of class (in Russian): By the end of this year, I will have you singing like Russian whores!

University of Memphis
Memphis, Tennessee

Professor: I don’t think we’ll have class on Monday — I’d rather you study for the final… Preferably not at a bar… But I realize the temptation may be tremendous.

University of Tulsa
Tulsa, Oklahoma

Theater professor: In Shakespeare's plays, SpongeBob would die.

Wayne State University
Detroit, Michigan

English teacher, on how language features are used in advertisements: So in the end, this advertisement is making all the single women of the world think “hello? I wanna be like the yoghurt!”

English Class
Christchurch
New Zealand

Professor: Sorry, I think I just gave a few of you post-traumatic Chaucer disorder.

Marist College
Poughkeepsie, New York

Overheard by: Russ