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[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I had a teacher who claimed that dinosaurs weren't real. She said that people just naturally love patterns so when we find random bones we arrange them into shapes we like. Someone in the class said what about skulls that are just one bone and she ignored it lol.

That was many years ago and it's still stuck in my memory as one of the dumbest things I've ever heard.

[–] BertramDitore@lemm.ee 11 points 1 day ago

Wow that’s wild. The thing that bothers me most about shit like this is that a good teacher would put aside their pride and take it as an opportunity to learn something themselves and show the class how to find out an answer to a question like this. Instead, you’ll always remember her as the dumbass who didn’t know what fossils are.