Blue Is a Primary Color!

Psychology class today (this is a distant learning class. professor is on a tv with a teachers aid chillin over in the corner of the class):

Our psych teacher today was trying to make some sort of connection between psychology and mixing colors together.  our prof goes on to say that mixing yellow and green together makes....blue.  Now being the person i am, i started fuming over this small detail but apparently he had fallen down his stairs this morning and was a little out of it so i just let it go.  about 2 minutes later he brings up this color reference again.  now other people in the class start murmuring this to each other and start to protest to the prof.  well our microphone sucks so he doesn't hear us. the teacher aid hears us though and tells us that yellow and green do in fact, make blue.  she then goes on to show her great knowledge of how expensive paint is by saying the hues that are put into red are "very rare" and therefore to get her mustang repainted, was very costly.  by the end of her explanation i felt the burning need to raise my hand.  at this point the class was in an uproar. finally after yelling the teachers name a few times to get his attention (i sit in the back of the room) everyone quiets down and he acknowledges me.  i say: "Dr.N. Blue is a primary color.  You cannot mix two colors together to get it."  He seemed a little confused but the teachers aid took over for him saying: "No! you can mix colors to get blue! Yellow and Green.  Go ask Mrs.B. she will tell you the exact same thing." Dr. N. agrees with this saying: "Yes. pigments and filters mix differently. so therefore those colors CAN make blue."

by this point i was absolutely freaking out. (i don't freak over much but this was very irksome.)

Dr. N. continues with his lecture.  Soon a girl in the front of the class raises her hand.  She had mixed a green and yellow highlighter on her paper to show the prof.  he asked her what color it made and she said lime green.

"LIME GREEN!" he exclaimed."Oh! well.  can you now mix blue and yellow together?"

she mixes the two together to find that it makes...green.  Dr.N. sees this and exclaims: "OH!!! it seems i mixed up my colors! i am so sorry. ill have to make a note of this for my later classes."  The teachers aid thankfully kept her mouth shut.

now it wasn't the fact that the prof. mixed up his colors that made me mad.  What made me mad, was that the Aid was so bent on proving us wrong and taking the profs side, that she didn't really think over this logic.

i swear i had a coronary.

and that was my rant for today.

-M