Most Inaccurate Lessons You Were Taught in School

[Meanmoose]

I got the gist that Ares was the god of war, but he represented the brutality and barbarity of it. He wasn't a god you directly worshiped (except truly war obessed people like Spartans), he was one you feared.

Athena being patron of Athens, the big city for Greek enlightment was the goddess of wisdom, but she was a warrior goddess representing the disciplined nature of war, tactics etc.

This is also the impression i have.

 

[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.

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,

i'm pritty sure soaking up too many gamma rays will give you 'sunburn' at the very least. (cancer useually takes a while after exposure)

 

[JoystickHero]

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,

Especially if they get the LGC working the way they want, and become able to fuck with atoms, then we could get rid of the waste by blasting protons off of it. "LOLOLOLOL BLACK HOLE"

As for this thread I was raised in an American school in a small, conservative town, so I believe I can safely say: Just about everything that wasn't math. And even then, I was taught a lot of lies to keep things simple (and, ironically, close off entire subjects from being learned on their own). I.E. Can't divide by zero, etc. etc.

But, I honestly can't blame them for half of the lies they taught me. My fellow students were dumb as shit, and I would probably lie to them, too, just to shut the fuckers up.

I would also just like to say that every school system lies. North Korea's schooling, for example, can be pretty much summed up as "It's America's fault."

 

[funguy2121]

I can't believe no one's said this:

"Marijuana is a gateway drug."

"Christopher Columbus was a good Christian man."

"Martin Luther King was killed because of racism."

The first serves as a mechanism for shutting down the brain, b/c there is no way to properly demonize this plant, which in the early half of last century was more commonly used as parchment than paper, and has many medicinal properties (just ask Bayer Aspirin, who make a delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol inhaler).

Columbus' diary extols the glorious experience of raping an indian child before smashing her head on a rock.

No one ever ever ever speaks about what MLK did with the last 2 years of his life, even though it is well documented. He was working to raise a global, unarmed, nonviolent "army" to stop US/Western imperialism. He even said in several of his speeches that America was "in danger of becoming a tyrant."

 

[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,

i'm pritty sure soaking up too many gamma rays will give you 'sunburn' at the very least. (cancer useually takes a while after exposure)

AAAAh, but the whole purpose of a nuclear reactor is to take the alpha, beta, gamma, and less common radioactive particles and use them to spin a magnet around a wire, if the reactor was perfected, the radiation escaping from it would be trivial compared to sunlight

 

[JoystickHero]

No one ever ever ever speaks about what MLK did with the last 2 years of his life, even though it is well documented. He was working to raise a global, unarmed, nonviolent "army" to stop US/Western imperialism. He even said in several of his speeches that America was "in danger of becoming a tyrant."

Dear God, MLK is 2 Griffin.

 

[Aur0ra145]

It is impossible to spin, roll or loop a Cessna 172. It is also impossible to make 170 knots in a Cessna 172.

All I have proved to be wrong. Though exceeding 170 knots was my ground speed, I had a IAS of 120 knots.

 

[Berethond]

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

Err....
You do know that Calvin Coolidge caused the great depression, right?

I was once taught that Harvey Milk was the first openly gay politician.
In fact, he was not. In fact, we have had a homosexual president.

 

[JoystickHero]

OT:I was taught since kindergarten that America is the best place to live, ever.

So was I. I've wanted to move to Europe for a while now. England or France, specifically. A shame I only speak English.

In fact, he was not. In fact, we have had a homosexual president.

Was he the one that "never got married"? *quick Google-Fu* James Buchanan?

 

[Lazy Kitty]

Dividing by zero is impossible.

 

[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

Err....
You do know that Calvin Coolidge caused the great depression, right?

I was once taught that Harvey Milk was the first openly gay politician.
In fact, he was not. In fact, we have had a homosexual president.

Nooooooooo, Laissez Faire government economic policy cause the GD, It doesn't mean that the greastest economic boom in US History preceded the GD

 

[Video Gone]

-Woodrow Wilson was quite a racist, and did quite a bit to suppress women's rights.

I went to Woodrow Wilson High School, in West Virginia coincidentally.

OT:I was taught since kindergarten that America is the best place to live, ever.

Sure it is.
America the awesome.
Pfffff...
Mmmmmmf....
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

 

[Datalord]

Dividing by zero is impossible.

Yeah, but getting a real number as a result is, you always end up with either positive infinity, negative infinity, or nothing at all, not zero, nothing, which is why precalc spend so much time teaching how to avoid zero's in the denominator of a limit, so that when you get to derivatives in calc, you know to divide out the "h" before taking the limit

 

[JoystickHero]

-Woodrow Wilson was quite a racist, and did quite a bit to suppress women's rights.

I went to Woodrow Wilson High School, in West Virginia coincidentally.

OT:I was taught since kindergarten that America is the best place to live, ever.

Sure it is.
America the awesome.
Pfffff...
Mmmmmmf....
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

It's not a new phenomenon, either. White man's burden, anyone?

 

[r0qu3]

Hmm i couldn't really recall any of those situations...

..here in Germany all which is taught in school is not decided by your teacher but a land(not nation)wide colloquium who make the plan for every schoolyear...

so theres really little room for such mistakes... also they tend to teach along the school books and fortunately there are no religious-infested books in public school. i hope it stays that way.

Also a question of understanding...cause i really don't know about it...Is it normal in the USA to impose your personal views upon your students...because here its forbidden...

anybody?

 

[Datalord]

-Woodrow Wilson was quite a racist, and did quite a bit to suppress women's rights.

I went to Woodrow Wilson High School, in West Virginia coincidentally.

OT:I was taught since kindergarten that America is the best place to live, ever.

Sure it is.
America the awesome.
Pfffff...
Mmmmmmf....
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Whats wrong with the US?
Plenty of resources, plenty of space, plenty of idiots to take advantage of, and if you're intelligent you can get away with almost anything

 

[JoystickHero]

Dividing by zero is incredibly messy.

Yeah, but getting a real number as a result is, you always end up with either positive infinity, negative infinity, or nothing at all, not zero, nothing, which is why precalc spend so much time teaching how to avoid zero's in the denominator of a limit, so that when you get to derivatives in calc, you know to divide out the "h" before taking the limit

I remember that. Fixed.

Hmm i couldn't really recall any of those situations...

..here in Germany all which is taught in school is not decided by your teacher but a land(not nation)wide colloquium who make the plan for every schoolyear...

so theres really little room for such mistakes... also they tend to teach along the school books and fortunately there are no religious-infested books in public school. i hope it stays that way.

Also a question of understanding...cause i really don't know about it...Is it normal in the USA to impose your personal views upon your students...because here its forbidden...

anybody?

It's illegal here, too. But good luck beating the Christians in court.

 

[Video Gone]

OT:I was taught since kindergarten that America is the best place to live, ever.

So was I. I've wanted to move to Europe for a while now. England or France, specifically. A shame I only speak English.

Come to the Republic of Ireland, or England or France.
Just thought I'd add my tuppence worth. Just not Northern Ireland. It's just a completely terrible version of England.