Dealing with tough teachers

[Blazin Bones]

What are some things you have found that help you deal with tough teachers?

 

[Nick]

Pray and talk about it with friends and God.

 

[Eichblatt]

I don't know how you define a "tough teacher". I'm just going to go with... A jerk who never leaves you alone, always trying to find something to start trouble with you. Well, I've got a teacher that won't leave me alone. I do my work and don't do anything but sit and learn.

So, what's his problem? Honestly, I don't know.

The only solution is to just sit quiet and do the work, and hope the period ends soon. Talk to a counselor. If that doesn't work. Just don't say a word.

Silence can often be misinterpreted, but it can't be misquoted. That's what my pastor says, and he's right. The teacher can yell at you for being silent, but if you don't say a word to him, he can just get angry with you but can't use it against you in any way. When asked a question, answer simply. It gets annoying, but don't go off getting into bigger trouble by telling him "HEY, GUESS WHAT... YOU'RE WRONG! HA, GOTCHA!", followed by losing your head, knocking things off tables and toppling chairs. Easier to go with the "Just nod and smile." Technique.

I hope I helped but, again, I have no idea the EXACT problem you're facing.

 

[Nick]

I think a 'tough teacher' could be defined as a teacher that has it in for you, is a bad teacher (can't teach very well) or one that you simply don't like or don't get on with.

A tough teacher is one that when you look at your timetable for your next class and go "oh no, not that teacher".

 

[WhoIAm]

Well, ive recently had a problem with a biology teacher.She was teaching the class evolution and said that there was no way God created the universe in a week.After class i asked her if there was anyway that i could be excused from the lesson because of my religious beliefs.she told me that there was no reason i should be excused. i showed her the work she gave us to do and i insisted that i should be excused.i was sent to the office where i told him a evolution packet and asked him to be excused. he said that i couldn't because it was rediculous.HMMMMMM......problem teacher, problem principal, problem school!

 

[Nick]

yeah, there is a problem in the education system, where they teach evolution and the big band etc in science, but they don't present any other views. What they need to do is to also teach creationsim and let the students make up their own minds.

In your case, just pray. You know the truth. Perhaps others will to when they see you strongly objecting to evolution being tought.

Maybe the biology teacher would let you present your line of view after class? That could be interesting.

 

[Nick]

there was no way God created the universe in a week.

2 Peter 3:8 - But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

This may or may not be literal, but it does give us an idea that God's idea of time is most likely different from ours, and a day to him could be a lot longer to us.

The creation of the universe was, I believe, not done in seven days as we know it. Maybe it was seven days to God, but then again that would be a lot longer to us. More likely is that Moses (who wrote Genesis) used the seven parts or steps that God created the universe in and wrote them down as days, to make it simpler.

 

[VenomFangX]

All science is pointing to the existence of the Universe being some 14 billion years, Earth time. However, God time is different and yes I do think the word day was not meant to be a literal Earth day.
I mean we define a day by the rotation of the Earth doing one revolution. Before the Earth existed then the meaning of the day was not confined to Earth as it could not be by definition. A day on Venus takes 243 Earth years, so even within our Solar system there is different definitions. As heaven is timeless, I am certain a day in heaven is not the same as a day on Earth. I think God made the Earth and the heavens and everything else in his own time and not ours.

 

[Blazin Bones]

All science is pointing to the existence of the Universe being some 14 billion years, Earth time. However, God time is different and yes I do think the word day was not meant to be a literal Earth day.
I mean we define a day by the rotation of the Earth doing one revolution. Before the Earth existed then the meaning of the day was not confined to Earth as it could not be by definition. A day on Venus takes 243 Earth years, so even within our Solar system there is different definitions. As heaven is timeless, I am certain a day in heaven is not the same as a day on Earth. I think God made the Earth and the heavens and everything else in his own time and not ours.

Venom, here is something to think about. Until the invention of the Microscope, all science thought that the cell was just a blob and the smallest portion of matter. They later found out that even the cell is made up of complex parts. Science can point to one outcome or another, but that doesn't make it true.

As for the meaning of day, from the literal Hebrew, yes they believed it was one day.

 

[VenomFangX]

Thank you for those kind thoughts. I understand that scientific theory is the best answer according to all the given evidence, and so accorded the highest probability. As I was taught a hypothesis is never proved but only supported by the evidence, and for a hypothesis to become theory it has to undergo intense peer review. With time, as you mentioned, better evidence comes along then that has to be taken into account. This is currently taking place with "string theory" taking over the realm of Einsteins general and special relativity theories. I do not think anyone would take any scientific theory as an absolute proof due to the fact there are changes, but in most instances you have to read the reviews if you have time and give them your support unless you can come up with compelling scientific evidence to the contrary. In that case one might become a "Nobel Prize" winner. The good lord said

And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.John 8:32 I think our combination of faith and intellectual reasoning could help us do what was asked of us.

 

[7ruth]

There is really no way to deal with them. I have some liberal teachers in ever class, some of thier ridiculos teachings just get me mad.

But I try to hold it in. God has placed each and everyone of them in that authority, so I just try to respect them even when I get mad sometimes