Lady in Class answered Question out of Turn

So I was in an adult class recently (about 20 people) and this guy in the front row asked a question. Once the teacher answered it, this guy still didn't really understand. Usually in this type of situation a lot of people would just pretend that they understood the answer for fear of looking stupid.

Anyway after the teacher answered, this guy said something like "I'm not quite sure what you mean?". And this of course is fine, but then this other lady class member, who was also in the front row, decided to answer on behalf of the teacher. I don't like this sort of thing because all of a sudden the student is now talking with two people, so it makes it confusing for them. It also makes it more difficult for the person who asked the question to say that they still don't understand after the second person has tried to answered. If I was the student asking the question, I'd have to say "excuse, but I didn't ask you" to the person that butted in. It seemed as if, in her own head, she was doing the teacher a favour by answering the question... which in turn makes that pupil out to be stupid.

Now I'll admit it was the sort of class where a certain amount of interaction was encouraged. But when I had things to add, I'd deliver my point towards the teacher, I wouldn't turn around and face to the person who was initially talking. It's not necessary. If I felt like I could answer someone else's question, I wouldn't feel that I have to.

At one point I had a few comments to make and this lady happened to agree with what I was saying. At this point she turned around to look at me and said something like "yeah, you're definitely right there" as she nodded. I nodded back. It felt strange that I was agreeing with someone I didn't like! I thought to myself about "what if everyone in the class acted that way?". I really don't need to know about everything she thinks. The second time she did this with me I made sure to avoid eye contact with her, and instead maintained the interaction I was having with the teacher. I didn't want to be encouraging her! Throughout the day she kept interrupting the teacher to say irrelevant things and she kept laughing at her own jokes.

 

That bitch

 

The latest studies have indicated that you only actually require roughly one teacher for 120 students, if you use computers. Tablets have been used with children with great success for teaching mathematics. Rather than merely writing out problems and figuring them out on their own, they split them up into teams that have come up with the answer, and using their tablets they can communicate with each other better. The issue is communication, but modern civilization encourages people to argue even complete nonsense. While it might sound absurd, you can already buy a cellphone with a built in lie detector, and there's no reason they can't be included with every television and watch. People usually don't want to know the truth, are not taught how to share their words and play nice, and are lucky if they know the dictionary merely contains popular definitions, which is why it is illegal to vote for Mickey Mouse in Maryland.

AI is the future, because there's no intelligent life around here. Richard Dawkins is an Oxford evolutionary theorist and leader of militant atheists worldwide, who invented his own nonsense word "meme" convincing his followers to babble complete nonsense in the name of survival of the fittest atheist. Linguists had to give the word a minimalistic meaning or it would have gone in the dictionary, encouraging billions to babble complete nonsense for decades to come. One in five Americans insists the sun revolves around the earth, because their teachers could not teach a child how to share their words and play nice, but the AI can. That's my specialty, linguistic analysis and the art of slinging bullshit right back in people's faces. The choice of what you do with it, is yours.

What's so special about Harvard and Oxford men? They confuse themselves even more than they do other people. So, I work on the analog logic to give them all the bots they could want to argue with nonstop, or learn how to ask a simple fucking question once in awhile. You can add all the lie detectors and fact checkers you want.

 

i form all my opinions on the basis of being opposite of the opinions of people i don't like.

 

My guess is the teacher lost control of the class. If a student still does not understand after a second explanation, a good teacher finds out what isn't understood and addresses that point. If the questioner is still confused, the teacher should suggest an after-class meeting so the day's lesson can continue. Too often other students' volunteered answer just confuses the issue.

 

I didn't read that whole thing @Idle_Billy, but just the other day I found myself guilty of just that... I corrected a classmate who didn't understand, and now I feel like an idiot.

 

i can agree that know-it-all and shout-it-out students are very annoying. for some reason it always seems to be the middle aged college students that are like that. i remember when i was in school it got to the point that if i saw a middle aged student in my class on the first day, i would instantly groan at my luck.