Most Inaccurate Lessons You Were Taught in School

[Draco Kaiser]

I was taught that everyone is equal.

What a load of horseshit that turned out to be. My boobs aren't anywhere near as awesome as the ones on the wimmenfolk.

Well everyone is equal in their rights. Well at least in America that's true.

 

[A random person]

Probably everything I was taught in health class. A few classic claims are that tobacco contains radioactive compounds, men are 6'3" on average, and that eating McDonald's in moderation would get the same result as Morgan Spurlock in Supersize Me, because you're apparently taking in the same toxins and excesses, just at a slower rate.

Also, more of an omission, but my elementary and middle schools did not teach a difference between "than" and "then." I used "then" for everything and never got called on it or lost points for it.

toxins in mcdonalds? who let that douche teach? The cigarette thing is correct albeit in tiny amounts,not suprising considering that there are more than 2000 different compounds in the things.

My social studies teacher pointed out that soil has trace amounts of radioactive compounds, so that's where they may come from.

As for toxins in McDonald's, she apparently thought that fat and other things in their food keep building up and will eventually make you end up like Morgan Spurlock. And yes, she apparently has heard of the excretory system.

 

[Draco Kaiser]

Elementary school. We were taught that the American Revolution "sounded the bell for freedom around the world" and "was fought for freedom" when in reality, it was a small colony in the middle of nowhere and what we were really fighting for was the idea that we didn't want to pay taxes to the Brits.

They were actually mad at the Brits for taking away their town meetings, quartering soldiers in the colonists house against their own will, not allowing them their own self-rule. Taxing was one of them, but those are the other reasons.

 

[duckfi8]

You will have homework and papers exactly like this in college. I barley have any homework and i have papers but it's nothing what i did like in high school.

 

[captainwillies]

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

[inyourface]

how about zerodivided by zero, by all logic that makes 1

[inyourface]

if i had zero apples and i divided them by zero apples I'd have zero apples? makes perfect sense to me

 

[epsilon246]

My 8th grade science teacher told us that too much of anything can kill you...except water. I argued with her for 5 minutes before she wrote me up and sent me to the office. Too much water can kill you. Either over time where you get kidney failure or at once where your body just drowns(I think).

She also said that there is no absolute zero scale for the English system. It's Rankine! its -459.67F. Argued with her for 3 minutes on this before she sent me to the office. We had another argument involving the unit of mass for the English system too which is the Slug.

Maybe this is just convention but, mercury is in these thermometers(the ones with the red stuff in them) and will kill you if you drink it/touch it. Pretty sure we switched to that organic substance so that wouldn't happen.

my health teacher said all guys used to have vaginas before we were born. that may go for every one else but my friend has been there forever

Well, the default for human is female.

x=6

but it can also equal 1 2 4 35 252 62 241 5426 73 33 5255 and every number you can think of

MATH IS A LIE

What you said doesn't have to be true. In the case of X+7=12, X=5 and no other number.

sure it can. Just change the base you are using.

Yeah you can drown in your own fluids (though to much of anything can crush you).
The human default is female (that's why me have nipples) but sexual organs don't grow until hormones kick in at which point they become distinct between genders

And that's algebra "x" is just a variable.

 

[UsefulPlayer 1]

Where did you go school?
I recommend reading Lies My Teacher Told Me.

My teacher last year recommends that book with all his heart. His class was pretty cool.

 

[epsilon246]

Probably everything I was taught in health class. A few classic claims are that tobacco contains radioactive compounds, men are 6'3" on average, and that eating McDonald's in moderation would get the same result as Morgan Spurlock in Supersize Me, because you're apparently taking in the same toxins and excesses, just at a slower rate.

Also, more of an omission, but my elementary and middle schools did not teach a difference between "than" and "then." I used "then" for everything and never got called on it or lost points for it.

toxins in mcdonalds? who let that douche teach? The cigarette thing is correct albeit in tiny amounts,not suprising considering that there are more than 2000 different compounds in the things.

My social studies teacher pointed out that soil has trace amounts of radioactive compounds, so that's where they may come from.

As for toxins in McDonald's, she apparently thought that fat and other things in their food keep building up and will eventually make you end up like Morgan Spurlock. And yes, she apparently has heard of the excretory system.

The soil having radiactive compounds in is true, all a radiactive compound is is one with radiactive elements. though she dtill fails for mcd's.

 

[epsilon246]

My 8th grade science teacher told us that too much of anything can kill you...except water. I argued with her for 5 minutes before she wrote me up and sent me to the office. Too much water can kill you. Either over time where you get kidney failure or at once where your body just drowns(I think).

Maybe this is just convention but, mercury is in these thermometers(the ones with the red stuff in them) and will kill you if you drink it/touch it. Pretty sure we switched to that organic substance so that wouldn't happen.

Yes if you drink to much water you will die, most likely from you blood-salinaty levels dropping dangerously low(from being diluted), or from kidney failure.

And modern thermometers dont use mercury, but back in the day the did, and that shit is toxic.

You still get mercury thermometers, afterall they are saelled so if you don't break them it's not a problem. If you drink mercury it would (probably) go straight through you, the fumes are far more dangerous.

 

[epsilon246]

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

[inyourface]

how about zerodivided by zero, by all logic that makes 1

[inyourface]

0/0=c
thus 0=0*c
thus 0=0
As c can be any real number 0/0 equals all real numbers.

 

[Necrofudge]

That the world was made in 7 days.

Nah just kidding if the teacher actually tried pulling that shit out I would have had her executed.

 

[Agayek]

OT: In about 6th grade (11 years old) my teacher told me Egypt was the first known location of man. Never before have I used the words Africa, and and suck it in the same sentence before.

To be fair, Egypt is a portion of Africa, and it was the first large scale human civilization, as far as we know. Humanity really started in the Middle East, in the Mesopotamian region (modern day Iraq if memory serves), but there weren't any societies worth mentioning until the Old Kingdom of the Egyptians.

 

[skyfire_freckles]

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?

Not to doubt the authenticity of your story but, I've heard that one about 20 times.

I can see how others may have had a similar experience.

 

[Captain Blackout]

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.

Hating on a word?

 

[Gaderael]

I was taught that dolphins were fish.

Are you sure you were told that on porpoise?

 

[Cpu46]

I once had a substitute for a science class who pretty much just spewed the bible the entire class period, and so help you if you tried to steer her off topic, several kids were sent to the principals office for "interupting class" and a few more were given detentions, none of them were punished and the detentions were not enforced.
Our teacher was supposed to be gone all week, he came back on tuesday and said, "Class after receiving several emails from you parents I have decided that she will never sub my class again." I heard that she never subed at that school ever again.

EDIT: although it shouldnt surprise me that she did sub for the class in the first place since it was a school in the lovely Christian state of Mississippi.

 

[Lukeje]

That the world was made in 7 days.

Nah just kidding if the teacher actually tried pulling that shit out I would have had her executed.

Everyone knows it was six days.

 

[epsilon246]

That the world was made in 7 days.

Nah just kidding if the teacher actually tried pulling that shit out I would have had her executed.

Everyone knows it was six days.

Hah being pedantic are we?

 

[Troublesome Lagomorph]

I was taught that dolphins were fish.

Are you sure you were told that on porpoise?

Aye. I asked "Wait, aren't they mammals?" and the teacher got pissed off and asked me "Who is the teacher here? Me, or you? Want to come up and teach the class? No? Then shut up." Teacher was a *****...

 

[thepj]

-snipetysnipsnip-

[inyourface]

how about zerodivided by zero, by all logic that makes 1

[inyourface]

0/0=c
thus 0=0*c
thus 0=0
As c can be any real number 0/0 equals all real numbers.

thank you! the first person to explain it in a manner that a 13 year old boy going to a state school (admitedly a grammer school but still a state school) can understand!