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One hour of chemistry - three hours of fire service - book about memories of strange teachers

2020-09-13T16:08:06.569Z


Breakdowns with the bromine container, lovesickness on the class trip, spittoon after the course party - teachers are only human too! Schoolchildren tell of their strangest experiences.


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"We students reacted calmly. The sun was shining, we were lying on the meadow in front of the school. Only the youngest sometimes said at home that corpses had been lying in the schoolyard, which of course wasn't true."

This is how Leander, a former high school student from Baden-Württemberg, describes the day when the chemistry experiment with bromine was on the curriculum and, well, it got a little out of control.

The students owed the many free hours to their teacher, because the experiment with the toxic substance had failed (more on this later).

A class from Bavaria was also recently happy about unexpected free time: During the corona lockdown, the teacher made first attempts with a conference tool when an unknown participant suddenly faded in a porno.

The online lesson was of course ended immediately.

In the book 

"Our math teacher teaches from outside - so that he can smoke!" 

SPIEGEL editors Lena Greiner and Carola Padtberg collected the funniest school memories and teacher anecdotes.

They report unusual homework, disgusting quirks and funny quirks - after all, teachers are only human.

For example, some classes watch "James Bond" for a whole school year, the next one hauls buckets of water like in the Bolivian jungle.

It's about the super-committed heroes of the classroom, but also the resigned owls in front of the dusty blackboards from back then.

Bad luck and mishaps

A lot of weird anecdotes revolve around small accidents in class.

Slapstick-ready appearances and striking technology, experiments in class or alcohol consumption at the course meeting - everything does not always go smoothly in the school cosmos.

Read some excerpts from the book here:

Small splash, big effect


"Our chemistry teacher at level 13 once triggered a large-scale operation of the fire brigade in our Waldorf school. He had placed a vessel with bromine a little too hard on the table, so that a few small splashes got on the table. Because bromine is very good If toxic fumes developed, the entire building was evacuated immediately. Dozens of fire engines arrived. Although the bromine content was hardly measurable, they took it as an opportunity to try out the special device. The air was then extracted in the basement of the school. "


From a school in Baden-Württemberg

Beer on wine ...


"All upper school courses at our rural high school met once a year for a course party - at that time it was not infrequently held at the teacher's home. The last of these took place on a Thursday, our teacher had a beer barrel and wine in specially for it Worried about three-liter bags - after all, we were all over 16 years old. A few of us had to stay sober and drive home for the rest of the course. The wife of our history teacher gave us spittoons with us on the return trip. "  


From a high school in North Rhine-Westphalia

Weird tasks

Some teachers can think of really brilliant lessons - they are so memorable that students won't forget them for a lifetime:

Against the wall


"In computer science my teacher said I should walk towards the wall with my eyes closed. She wanted to demonstrate that I would automatically use my hands and protect myself, as the program we were dealing with at the time can do. Wrong thought - I just ran into the wall. "


From a high school in Bavaria

Force versus mass


"In physics, we once had to illustrate a task in which a classmate ran back and forth several hundred meters on the open road. We stood at a distance of 50 meters and stopped the time in stages. We should learn something about acceleration. "


From a high school in Bavaria

Crazy Spleens

It is often inconceivable for primary school students, but older cohorts have long since checked: Even teachers are only human.

With quirks, problems - and very funny pages.

Some have secret love affairs, others like princess tiaras.

Why not?

You are the dancing king


"At a summer party at school there were, like every year, small musical performances. This year the senior class danced to 'Dancing Queen', which was rather boring at first. But then suddenly came the chorus of Sports teacher danced on stage - in a floral dress and a princess diadem. "


From a school in Hessen

Foxtail instead of set square


"Our math teacher was a martial arts fan. We watched 'Rocky' and 'Karate Tiger' in class. After school he sped past us in a gold-colored Opel Manta with a foxtail. Sometimes we speculated whether he was leading a completely different life and that A math teacher's identity is just a cover-up. "


From a high school in North Rhine-Westphalia

Paris, the city of mourning


"In the eleventh grade we went on a school trip to Paris. What we didn't know: Our teacher had a friend there - she worked in a museum and also organized a guided tour for us. Our teacher wanted to come with us that evening She went out to eat, we had free time. The next day he did not come out of his room, allegedly he had upset his stomach with the steak fries. Judging by his extremely bad mood - he yelled at us about nothing - it was more likely to be Heart pain."


From a high school in Hamburg

Just uh

Unfortunately, however, it must also be said: Sometimes there are teachers who behave in class as if they were at home in their bathroom.

There was probably a little lack of social control by other adults present.

No peppermint helps


"Our teacher celebrated almost every weekend in the village disco. On Mondays he came to class with an intense garlic flag. He tried to cover it up with Fisherman's Friend - a friendly, but completely pointless gesture."


From a high school in North Rhine-Westphalia

Foot Care


"We had a math teacher who liked to wear sandals as soon as it was warm enough. During the lesson he would sit in a chair next to the blackboard, take off his shoes and pick and pick between his toes while he was talking."


From a high school in Hamburg

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Source: spiegel

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