Teachers

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

After MC Skat Kat, Paula Abdul's Career Went Into the Toilet

Student: What's “scat”?
Professor: Poop.
Student: Oh, shit!

Godfrey, Illinois

Overheard by: M

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

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

Tampa, Florida

Overheard by: the one chortling in the back

Professor, on Dante's version of the devil: This is not like one of those vampire things that are good-looking and want to suck your blood, and that makes you happy.

University of Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania

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

Psychology professor at all-women college: Personality disorders are the people you end up married to.

Baltimore, Maryland

Overheard by: Sabrina

Professor, pulling blue scarf out of pocket for magic trick: Now that… that is what I like to call… a blue scarf.

Villanova University
Villanova, Pennsylvania