A student is struggling with his analysis of a poem.
Student: "A silent music, a loud silence". . . Erm. . . That's . . . Er. . . an . . .
Me: Oxymoron.
Student: What did you just call me?!?
Me: No, it's a figure of speech.
Student: Well, it may be a figure of speech but it's still offensive.
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That reminded me of this.
-Mike
This one made me laughed... even though it must have been awkward for everyone.
I once had a student tell me I was being offensive when I told her that freshmen usually had difficulty with a particular course because of the required mathematical maturity. She felt that singling out freshmen in this way was wrong.
Hey, when I was coming of age in the late '60's and then early 70's everyone else was saying:
"Right On Brother!" and similar.
To me they just said: "More On!
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