How often do you find yourself to be smarter/more knowledgable than your teacher/professor/lecture.

Question above. Just wanted to have a general survey of the situation in American higher education.

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This is a common perception of students. Try being a teacher sometime and see how you realize how wrong it was to think this. When I was a student I thought I was smarter than my teachers, then when I became a teacher, I realized I was just being really immature.

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Depends on the subject.a few times I felt like that.
I am from india and the answer is many many times!
ALot of folks are more smarter, they have more common sense.
Too many times. And then I get in trouble for making smartass remarks.
My sons had alot of teacher that i thought shouldnt been teaching,,but when i was in school i never felt smarter then them..
If you mean knowing some specific point of information that the instructor does not know, or finding an error in a lecture, then most students will be in that position at some point. Teachers are not infallible or all-knowing. If you mean having a general level of understanding of the subject greater than that possessed by the teacher, if you find yourself in that position, leave the class - it's not helping you, and you may be hindering others.

Teachers know at least a little more about a subject than is necessary to teach the course material. This does not make them experts in that field, and there is no reason to suppose that they would be experts. Their job is to convey sufficient understanding to meet the class objective.

As an ex-teacher, I have seen students in adult education that understood some aspects of my courses better than me; and I learned from their input. I have also seen disruptive students who either THOUGHT they knew the subject, or already had passed the course and returned essentially to show how much they knew. Neither type of student is helpful to the class.

I have always known more about a subject than the content of my courses; but I freely admit that I am not a world expert.
I've never had this problem but my ex was smarter than his college professors. He went to college for computers security stuff and the teacher always asked him if what he was teaching was right and my ex was constantly correcting him. Needless to say that his college education didn't last too long as he was too smart for the college and wasn't going to pay $80k to teach himself what he already knew.
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