There ARE Stupid Questions

Today I was enjoying a run-of-the-mill-educational experience when my teacher uttered the phrase that we all fear: "There is no such thing as a stupid question." Let me tell you, my fine feathered friends, there is not enough wood in this lumber state to knock on to avoid the plethora of stupid questions that are about to descend upon my scholastic adventures.

This phrase, along with the dumb-dumbs that seek to show how false those words can be, have followed me for most of my educational career. When this is uttered from a educational specialist's mouth, it creates a lot of questions for those who have an IQ of over 13 about the teacher's life choices, as well as the students who really take these words to heart. Why would you ask that? How is it that you can go through life without being hit by a bus? Do you need examples of stupid questions? I will give you some stupid questions.

And so I am reminded that our educators are often times dumb-dumbs themselves, so let us explore some other falsehoods they tend to utter...

1. This is a reasonable reading load: if one must comment on the amount of reading, then it is not a reading load for a normal human being. Also, if something must be described in a quantity that usually would be moved by a truck the chances that the load is manageable is quite small. 

2. Your final should be fun: Want to make it fun? How about we have a final about how much we love sleeping and not being in class. Allowing us to choose a subject for our final makes us hate you less, not dance about because you gave us the option of researching feminism in China vs. Japan.

So beware of these flaws in the educational system in which we frolic. Watch yo self.