Most Inaccurate Lessons You Were Taught in School

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Ooh, I know a friend in America who was actually taught that the Americans won Vietnam.
And then their History Teacher started talking about how propaganda was thankfully ousted from the American Education System, literally five minutes after saying that.

Frankly, they are pulling it out of their asses.

 

[stabnex]

1) All People Are Born Equal

2) Flesh is NOT flammable.

 

[Acromatopsy]

One said that Einstein has autism, my English teacher said that English was the most spoken language in the world. She also said that Yen is the Chinese currency (It's the Japanese one, but what do they use in China? Or was she right?)

Renminbi is the chinese currency. The units for the Renminbi are the Yuan, Jiao and Fen.

 

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That Germans started World War One.

The Germans didn't start the war, they just got the blame because they lost it.

I remember being told all about how Hitler used to be a Jew.
Blissful days of ignorance.

On an unrelated topic, I remember being thought exclusively Christianity in a class called Religious Studies. I also had to keep my mouth shut for my entire education about my personal (my parents are Christian, and any man who calls me out on that will be beheaded and fed to crocodiles. Then I will burn the crocodiles prior to digestion.) religious views, as in atheism, (as in keeping-my-gob-shut-and-not-shoving-it-down-everyone's-throats atheism, AHEM other atheists.) which almost ate me from the inside out. I survived it though.
Anyway, back to teh liez. Here's one:

Communism is fascism and can never ever work.
Pfffffffffft, haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
Also, we were taught that Ernesto Guevara was evil because he was a communist, and never MIND his acts of heroism.

 

[shotgunbob]

Everytime a high school math teacher says youll need this in life is lying.

And in health class we learned that you need to be abstinance to be healthy........ Gee that wasnt influenced by religion

 

[Comrade Mateo]

I was spinning a globe during free time in second grade, looking at all the continents, when I suddenly realized that Africa and South America would fit together almost perfectly. It made me think about what my dad had said about earthquakes, so I went to my teacher and explained my theory: that once upon a time, the continents had all been together once, but earthquakes had broken them apart over time.

She said, "No, of course not," like it was ridiculous. Then she went on to say that the world had always been just the way it was, and would never change.

What the hell?

*cough cough* Al Gore *cough cough*

I think the most annoying lesson was that I could be anything. This led to a lot of dissapointment.

 

[Call4Duty]

My Bio 11 teacher is finally useful for once. Here are some of the things she has told us:

*The reason chlorophyll is green is because it absorbs green light and reflects all the other colours back.
*H2O is a very reactive, unstable compound.
*There is no difference between the scientific word "theory" and the common useage of the word "theory."
*Paying attention to her slides about the cell parts is more productive than doing the physics homework that I -haven't- been learning about for three years straight.
*ATP is the chemical formula for adenosine triphosphate, because there's definately an element 'A' and 'T'...
*When doing a lab write-up, there should NOT be a part of your observations called "What should have happened." If the expermient didn't yeild the results you were expecting, you WRITE THAT. (As a side note, the fact that she didn't do the lab properly, and so we disproved that there is such a thing as a hypotonic solution is bad in and of itself.)

Oh, and my friend's science 10 teacher told him that the moon is a star and that men have eggs. He still won't admit he's wrong.

 

[Kamikazi1231]

I remember being taught the heliocentric model of the atom in elementary school and that being totally erased in high school. What a waste of time to leave.

 

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Oh, and I just remembered this:
What did you learn in school today,
Dear little boy of mine?
What did you learn in school today,
Dear little boy of mine?
I learned that Washington never told a lie.
I learned that soldiers seldom die.
I learned that everybody's free.
And that's what the teacher said to me.
That's what I learned in school today.
That's what I learned in school.

What did you learn in school today,
Dear little boy of mine?
What did you learn in school today,
Dear little boy of mine?
I learned that policemen are my friends.
I learned that justice never ends.
I learned that murderers die for their crimes.
Even if we make a mistake sometimes.
That's what I learned in school today.
That's what I learned in school.

What did you learn in school today,
Dear little boy of mine?
What did you learn in school today,
Dear little boy of mine?
I learned our government must be strong.
It's always right and never wrong.
Our leaders are the finest men.
And we elect them again and again.
That's what I learned in school today.
That's what I learned in school.

What did you learn in school today,
Dear little boy of mine?
What did you learn in school today,
Dear little boy of mine?
I learned that war is not so bad.
I learned of the great ones we have had.
We fought in Germany and in France.
And some day I might get my chance.
That's what I learned in school today.
That's what I learned in school.

That is the biggest load of bullshit and fucking lies and proganda I have ever heard.
Thank you, my parents, for never moving to America and forcing me to sing lies.
I should point out everything wrong with that song. As in EVERY FUCKING LINE is untrue.

 

[Datalord]

OK, so i go to a catholic school, its better than most i've been told, because creationism isn't taught here and religion classes are only mandatory for freshmen (ethics and relationships class) and the catholic students. I can't really think of a major untruth we were taught here, we learned about how the archduke is dead, germs killed more native americans than guns, the earth is round, and that the hebrew numerological system was flawed by nature of the fact that it lacked a placeholder.

I know some of the public schools near hear are pretty inconsistent, one student told me that he was taught to understand that organizations like PETA are the true hero's in modern society and all war is an evil invention of man that has never solved anything.

 

[funguy2121]

Polyurethane. Same stuff they use for O.R. gloves for the latex-allergic.

Once upon a time I had a sub in my government/economics class who told me that everything I heard on TV was a liberal conspiracy and that only the Republicans could salvage the economy (this was in the last days of the Clinton era, the biggest economic boom in American history).

 

[Datalord]

Oh, and I just remembered this:
What did you learn in school today,
Dear little boy of mine?
What did you learn in school today,
Dear little boy of mine?
I learned that Washington never told a lie.
I learned that soldiers seldom die.
I learned that everybody's free.
And that's what the teacher said to me.
That's what I learned in school today.
That's what I learned in school.

What did you learn in school today,
Dear little boy of mine?
What did you learn in school today,
Dear little boy of mine?
I learned that policemen are my friends.
I learned that justice never ends.
I learned that murderers die for their crimes.
Even if we make a mistake sometimes.
That's what I learned in school today.
That's what I learned in school.

What did you learn in school today,
Dear little boy of mine?
What did you learn in school today,
Dear little boy of mine?
I learned our government must be strong.
It's always right and never wrong.
Our leaders are the finest men.
And we elect them again and again.
That's what I learned in school today.
That's what I learned in school.

What did you learn in school today,
Dear little boy of mine?
What did you learn in school today,
Dear little boy of mine?
I learned that war is not so bad.
I learned of the great ones we have had.
We fought in Germany and in France.
And some day I might get my chance.
That's what I learned in school today.
That's what I learned in school.

That is the biggest load of bullshit and fucking lies and proganda I have ever heard.
Thank you, my parents, for never moving to America and forcing me to sing lies.
I should point out everything wrong with that song. As in EVERY FUCKING LINE is untrue.

So thats NOT what he learned in school today?

 

[Ygfi]

Communism is a totalitarian regime with a command economy, and has been shown not to work by the former USSR. This in a college class on government.

this is one of the most perpetuated lies i hear. i also hear so much crap about communism when people are talking about socialism, not to mention the abuse of the word anarchy.

OT: nuclear energy is completely safe....
i'm pritty sure radioactive waste, the defilement of landscape, nuclear reactions them selves, a few other things are completely harmless.

 

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Everytime a high school math teacher says youll need this in life is lying.

And in health class we learned that you need to be abstinance to be healthy........ Gee that wasnt influenced by religion

I sure as hell don't use maths in life, don't know about you lot.
Also, you most certainly do not need abstinence to be healthy.
I'm fine. "Fine, d'you hear?"

 

[funguy2121]

that being a nice person always pays off in the end.... yea, right.

define "nice person"

The way I was told to behave in the school I went to as a child was to be passive and turn the other cheek when ever possible. If you do this then in the end things will work out better for you. no matter what any one does to you never retaliate, they will get whats coming to them.

This extreme form of pacifism is what was taught to me from a very early age. Its a stupid school of logic.

Yeah, the idea is to create a passive person who doesn't grow up to be a system-bucker. I've observed the same kind of antiphilosophy more than once, when a teacher complained that a student was excelling too much relative to his/her classmates. Bollocks

 

[Datalord]

Polyurethane. Same stuff they use for O.R. gloves for the latex-allergic.

Once upon a time I had a sub in my government/economics class who told me that everything I heard on TV was a liberal conspiracy and that only the Republicans could salvage the economy (this was in the last days of the Clinton era, the biggest economic boom in American history).

NO NO no No nO no NO no......no wait. Weren't the early 1920's better? GO COOLIDGE

 

[Comrade Mateo]

*snip*
I don't even care if you're one of those filthy godless atheists (like myself.)
But keep it to yourself, you fuck.
I didn't wake up to listen to you preach your religion.

It's fine when you do it to people who came to a place where they specifically wanted to hear it.
But when you're preaching at someone who is literally incapable of leaving and who is there under false pretenses, it makes me want to hurt you.

Emphasis everywhere you guys.

You have my apologies on behalf of Christians everywhere. Too bad 99%+ are deeply lost or complete fucktards.

I'm gonna put you in the fucktards catagory just for using the word fucktard. fucktard.

 

[Datalord]

Communism is a totalitarian regime with a command economy, and has been shown not to work by the former USSR. This in a college class on government.

this is one of the most perpetuated lies i hear. i also hear so much crap about communism when people are talking about socialism, not to mention the abuse of the word anarchy.

OT: nuclear energy is completely safe....
i'm pritty sure radioactive waste, the defilement of landscape, nuclear reactions them selves, a few other things are completely harmless.

Nuclear energy IS safe, just not the level we have achieved yet, if we could obtain complete nuclear fission, we would be left with non-radioactive isotopes of elements, extracting all possible energy from actinides and lanthanides,

 

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Oh, and I just remembered this:
What did you learn in school today,
Dear little boy of mine?
What did you learn in school today,
Dear little boy of mine?
I learned that Washington never told a lie.
I learned that soldiers seldom die.
I learned that everybody's free.
And that's what the teacher said to me.
That's what I learned in school today.
That's what I learned in school.

What did you learn in school today,
Dear little boy of mine?
What did you learn in school today,
Dear little boy of mine?
I learned that policemen are my friends.
I learned that justice never ends.
I learned that murderers die for their crimes.
Even if we make a mistake sometimes.
That's what I learned in school today.
That's what I learned in school.

What did you learn in school today,
Dear little boy of mine?
What did you learn in school today,
Dear little boy of mine?
I learned our government must be strong.
It's always right and never wrong.
Our leaders are the finest men.
And we elect them again and again.
That's what I learned in school today.
That's what I learned in school.

What did you learn in school today,
Dear little boy of mine?
What did you learn in school today,
Dear little boy of mine?
I learned that war is not so bad.
I learned of the great ones we have had.
We fought in Germany and in France.
And some day I might get my chance.
That's what I learned in school today.
That's what I learned in school.

That is the biggest load of bullshit and fucking lies and proganda I have ever heard.
Thank you, my parents, for never moving to America and forcing me to sing lies.
I should point out everything wrong with that song. As in EVERY FUCKING LINE is untrue.

So thats NOT what he learned in school today?

Quiet, Igor.

 

[Datalord]

Oh, and I just remembered this:
What did you learn in school today,
Dear little boy of mine?
What did you learn in school today,
Dear little boy of mine?
I learned that Washington never told a lie.
I learned that soldiers seldom die.
I learned that everybody's free.
And that's what the teacher said to me.
That's what I learned in school today.
That's what I learned in school.

What did you learn in school today,
Dear little boy of mine?
What did you learn in school today,
Dear little boy of mine?
I learned that policemen are my friends.
I learned that justice never ends.
I learned that murderers die for their crimes.
Even if we make a mistake sometimes.
That's what I learned in school today.
That's what I learned in school.

What did you learn in school today,
Dear little boy of mine?
What did you learn in school today,
Dear little boy of mine?
I learned our government must be strong.
It's always right and never wrong.
Our leaders are the finest men.
And we elect them again and again.
That's what I learned in school today.
That's what I learned in school.

What did you learn in school today,
Dear little boy of mine?
What did you learn in school today,
Dear little boy of mine?
I learned that war is not so bad.
I learned of the great ones we have had.
We fought in Germany and in France.
And some day I might get my chance.
That's what I learned in school today.
That's what I learned in school.

That is the biggest load of bullshit and fucking lies and proganda I have ever heard.
Thank you, my parents, for never moving to America and forcing me to sing lies.
I should point out everything wrong with that song. As in EVERY FUCKING LINE is untrue.

So thats NOT what he learned in school today?

Quiet, Igor.

Yes masssster