[Fragrag]

What are the best/weirdest/most awesome teachers you have/had?
My choice of teachers would be the two religion teachers I've had so far (I'm in 9th grade by the way). I had the first one when I was in 7th and 8th. If you saw this guy, you seriously wouldn't believe he's a religion teacher. He has really long hair that stopped around his waist. And he's a total geek, he would occasionaly talk about Lord of The Rings, Warhammer but the best thing was, he sings in a Death Metal band. I kid you not, my Religion teacher sings in a Metal band. He even sang during his wedding.

My second Religion teacher who I'm currently having is forgetful, often forgetting what the hell he was talking about. For this reason he demands total silence whenever he speaks but not in the totalitarian way, as if we want to say something, we can just raise our hands. In fact, he actually wants us to discuss about the given subject, something I thought was sorely missing the previous years. While he's a religion teacher, we rarely talk about it unless it's somehow connected to the subject we're talking about, ie, Iraq. And he's the Catholic, and other type of religions I'd love, that doesn't believe in any of the stories in the bible, he merely believes the morales and how every person should follow it (the morales, not the bible).
He's also a man of a strange wit, briefly interrupting a test (the only one had thusfar) by saying "I'm gonna tell you people a joke. Jesus came on Earth... No no, I'm gonna shut up about that.". Had me in stitches Although it's immature, it's a joke you wouldn't expect from a religion teacher. Yeh, I guess my school has a wierd facult

[redsniper]

I think I've suppressed most of my 5th grade memories since I can't recall a whole lot of that year. Geez, the two teachers I had were crazy. One of them was just anal but our main teacher I'm sure was certifiably insane. Ugh, what a year, the snake getting loose, people thinking it's in the bathroom, spray paint fumes, the gerbil dangling on my classmate's nose by its teeth... maybe that's why I'm a bit of an oddball.

[IPAndrews]

We had a virtual reality lecturer who used to talk at length about burning people's retinas out with lasers.

[Wanderer]

Absolutely best teacher or rather lecturer i have had was the astronomy/astrobiology lecturer.. this one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esko_Valtaoja . Absolutely awesome

Oddest one... hmm... perhaps the religion teacher who hated the religion and was an atheist by himself .

[IPAndrews]

perhaps the religion teacher who hated the religion and was an atheist by himself .

No that's the perfect RE teacher. Able to treat all religions with equal objective disdain.

[aldo_14]

We had a virtual reality lecturer who used to talk at length about burning people's retinas out with lasers.

Max Headroom?

[Dysko]

Looks like religion teachers are weird everywhere...

The one that I had 7 years ago for 3 years allowed us to play computer games on his notebook (I remember spending all the hour playing Extreme Assault... 8)). And he used many swear words. Sometimes we even heard him cursing...

The one I had 3 years ago showed us many cartoons (not cartoons like the Simpsons, she showed us cartoons for children! And we were 15...). Instead of watching cartoons, I had written an idiot comic...

[Davros]

"you seriously wouldn't believe he's a religion teacher. He has really long hair that stopped around his waist. "

why not sounds like jesus to me 

[BS403]

My U.S. History teacher last year. She was hot. It was the easiest class ever, all you had to do was flirt with her and you would get A's

[Kosh]

During the summer of my first year at university I took writing. My teacher would literally spend half of the class or more talking about what movies were coming out and if anyone had seen them. We also had a couple of navy officers doing their study programs, and they would always tell us interesting stories. I only had to write 2 essays during the whole term. That class was such a blast.

[Ford Prefect]

My junior- and senior-year high school English teacher. Studying Dubliners with him was like going on a trip, and he single-handedly made me a Joyce fanatic. I still visit my high school just to talk with him.

Since then I've had a slew of great teachers. My current favorite would have to be my existentialism professor. He's a major Nietzsche scholar and he gave me a whole new appreciation for Nietzsche's work.

[watsisname]

My physics professor likes throwing chalkboard erasers....


Seriously though, my calculus professor's got to be the best teacher I've ever had.  He's very animated and cheerful, really knows his stuff, and explains the hardest of concepts in a way that is both understandible and enjoyable.  He opened me up to how awesome math can be. 

As for insane teachers, well I'll never forget my 8th grade science teacher who had a fetish for wombats and had every lab involve blowing something up.  Ahhh, those were the days.

[Dark Hunter]

My Pre-Cal teacher was awesome. Very animated, you should have seen him demonsttrating a "human sine curve", and came up with very funny things to explain. Oftentimes he'd start telling us a story about his home life (like once he dropped a 5-lb frozen turkey on his toe and got a blood blister underneath the nail), and then stop, look slightly confused, and say: "That has nothing to do with calculus." Then he'd simply resume his lecture as though nothing had happened.

Also, if people refused to turn in their tests after time was up, and continue working on them, he'd start singing in the most deliberately off-key voice he could possibly manage. Sounded horrible, there was no way you could concentrate on math problems with him singing like that.

[Polpolion]

Teacher: Whats lying on the bottom of the ocean twitching?

students: A nervous wreck. you suck at jokes.

Teacher: NO!!! Steve Irwin!!!!!

Students: *not laugh*



My history teacher hates Steve Irwin. But he is still a good teacher with good methods and stuff. except I might go crazy with all the purple he wears. and I think he comes from the closet.

[Dark RevenantX]

My Biology teacher loves steve irwin... in a straight way.

Apparently, his after-death plans are to be tossed out into the desert, rather than cremated or buried in a coffin.  Something about "returning his energy to nature".

[Mars]

My weirdest / favorite teacher? That would be this guy he's fun to be around and to listen to... and he only rants occasionally.

[brozozo]

My World History and U.S. History teachers from high school really inspired me to be a teacher myself.

[Kosh]

My weirdest / favorite teacher? That would be this guy he's fun to be around and to listen to... and he only rants occasionally.

Bennish's father, who lives in Bennish's hometown of Beverly Hills, Michigan, revealed to the media that he had received at least a dozen death threats. [2] Bennish himself and Allen also received threats, but no party involved was attacked as a result of the controversy.

is wrong with you people?

[Mars]

Altitude apparently makes people violtent 

[aldo_14]

My best teacher was probably my 2nd year CompArch lecturer, Duncan Smeed (if anyone remembers the Dragon, which I don't, he worked on that).  He had a habit of long, sweary, hilarious rants against Microsoft and Intel; including one lecture where he went on for about 40 minutes, realised the time, and went 'ah, **** it, you can go' .  Rather more importantly, he was a superb lecturer, thanks to having and conveying his genuine passion for the subject.