Most Inaccurate Lessons You Were Taught in School

[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)

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

perhaps in the future, yes; however i said is not will be so yeah... and the waste is still a problem.

 

[are.you.the.god.its.me.vader]

Not really a lesson but my careers adviser was so full of crap.

Her: "What subjects do you like?"
Me :"Music and art.."
Her :"Right, you want to go into the army, NEXT!"

 

[megasamus1]

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

"Marijuana is a gateway drug."

Wow, I remember this happening 2 years ago, in my health class.
My teacher told us that we were starting a "drug unit", things just went downhill from there.

Also, I've had a couple of teachers who say that communism doesn't work, socialism isn't used effectively in any "modern" country, and capitalism is the most effective modern economy.

1. In reality, "true" communism CAN be kept stable (no corruption, capitalist "values"), but most likely not as a large country, maybe in a small independent town.

2. ever heard of Europe?

3. don't get me started on capitalism and it's shortcomings... (depression, our current "recession", etc.)

 

[JoystickHero]

Not really a lesson but my careers adviser was so full of crap.

Her: "What subjects do you like?"
Me :"Music and art.."
Her :"Right, you want to go into the army, NEXT!"

Our school psychiatrist was like that.
"What's the problem?"
"Well, I-"
"ADD. We'll talk to your parents about getting you some ritalin."
"But-"
"NEXT"

3. don't get me started on capitalism and it's shortcomings... (depression, our current "recession", etc.)

Capitalism works really well, when it's regulated

 

[JoystickHero]

Crap, double post

 

[wwjdftw]

Jr High. Modern American condoms were made of latex or intestines. How friggin' romantic that must feel...

Its true though....

 

[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!

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

It's a police state. Top Gear's Stig was arrested for wearing a white racing suit. Nothing else.
Jeremy Clarkson was asked by the airport attendant for a street number, which he didn't have.
He tried to explain this. He was met with the same thing every time he said anything. "I'm going to need a number." No attempts by the attendant to do anything, so after about 15 minutes, Jeremy gave him a number alright. Off the top of my head, I think it was four million, 87 thousand, 9 hundred, and 1.
Apparently, this was fine.
It's the idiocracy.
The fact that all the fat people ride around in wheelchairs.
It's all those things, and yet... I'd quite like to live there. You Americans have no idea what it's like in Europe. You have Tivo, Gametap, loads of other services only available in America, best buy, hardware stores...
We have shit all. If I wanted to make a Halo 3 Machinima, (I don't, but if,) I would have to either drive for 8 hours to Dublin, for a still EXTREMELY SLIM chance of getting a capture card, or I would have to buy on eBay, and be faced with something that could quite easily be broken when it arrives.
(eBay is cool though, I got the Dungeons and Dragons Basic 3.5 off there for 3 dollars from an American. See what I did there? Another thing that would have been impossible to get in Ireland, and what countryman is selling it?)
I am faced with a conflict about America.
But it is not the best place to live. Despite having the European necessity of having to get things off eBay, France is.

 

[Lazy Kitty]

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

Well, there's nothing wrong with either positive or negative infinity (except with that last one if that's the amount of money on my bank account) and for the nothing at all we got null (Yes, I'm a programmer.).

 

[Datalord]

Not really a lesson but my careers adviser was so full of crap.

Her: "What subjects do you like?"
Me :"Music and art.."
Her :"Right, you want to go into the army, NEXT!"

Our school psychiatrist was like that.
"What's the problem?"
"Well, I-"
"ADD. We'll talk to your parents about getting you some ritalin."
"But-"
"NEXT"

MASSIVE irony here

 

[Ygfi]

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

"Marijuana is a gateway drug."

Wow, I remember this happening 2 years ago, in my health class.
My teacher told us that we were starting a "drug unit", things just went downhill from there.

Also, I've had a couple of teachers who say that communism doesn't work, socialism isn't used effectively in any "modern" country, and capitalism is the most effective modern economy.

1. In reality, "true" communism CAN be kept stable (no corruption, capitalist "values"), but most likely not as a large country, maybe in a small independent town.

2. ever heard of Europe?

3. don't get me started on capitalism and it's shortcomings... (depression, our current "recession", etc.)

i'll point sweden out to you on top of that list. and if you've some time to kill, i'll point you to a video called "zeitgeist addendum" http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912#

 

[Video Gone]

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

"Marijuana is a gateway drug."

Wow, I remember this happening 2 years ago, in my health class.
My teacher told us that we were starting a "drug unit", things just went downhill from there.

Also, I've had a couple of teachers who say that communism doesn't work, socialism isn't used effectively in any "modern" country, and capitalism is the most effective modern economy.

1. In reality, "true" communism CAN be kept stable (no corruption, capitalist "values"), but most likely not as a large country, maybe in a small independent town.

2. ever heard of Europe?

3. don't get me started on capitalism and it's shortcomings... (depression, our current "recession", etc.)

What about Europe? Communism isn't used here. Neither is Socialism.

 

[HE Starwind]

They told me how to spell "Liquify". It's spelt "Liquefy".

 

[L33tsauce_Marty]

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

Or this:

badumtish

 

[crudus]

Not really a lesson but my careers adviser was so full of crap.

Her: "What subjects do you like?"
Me :"Music and art.."
Her :"Right, you want to go into the army, NEXT!"

Better than mine. Even problem was answered with "You sound sexually frustrated. You should have more sex!"

 

[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.

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

Nooooooooooooooo, overspeculating on stocks (that Coolidge encouraged) caused the great depression.

 

[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 (unless the facility is staffed by stupids) completely safe. the waste it creates is not. we just need to find a safe way to dispose of it.

Lets start with nuclear fission, and if that doesn't work, there's always the alpha centauri

 

[Video Gone]

Not really a lesson but my careers adviser was so full of crap.

Her: "What subjects do you like?"
Me :"Music and art.."
Her :"Right, you want to go into the army, NEXT!"

Better than mine. Even problem was answered with "You sound sexually frustrated. You should have more sex!"

What, seriously?

 

[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

Or this:

badumtish

You've doomed us all

 

[Acromatopsy]

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

"Marijuana is a gateway drug."

Wow, I remember this happening 2 years ago, in my health class.
My teacher told us that we were starting a "drug unit", things just went downhill from there.

Also, I've had a couple of teachers who say that communism doesn't work, socialism isn't used effectively in any "modern" country, and capitalism is the most effective modern economy.

1. In reality, "true" communism CAN be kept stable (no corruption, capitalist "values"), but most likely not as a large country, maybe in a small independent town.

2. ever heard of Europe?

3. don't get me started on capitalism and it's shortcomings... (depression, our current "recession", etc.)

What about Europe? Communism isn't used here. Neither is Socialism.

How is not socialism used here? Well, ok, I have to admit I don't know about the rest of the europe but in finland one of our three major political parties is the social-democratic party. We also have the ..uh, I'm not sure how to translate this.. the Left union, a major party which "identifies with socialism but resigns from "the totaliarism related to it".