Most Inaccurate Lessons You Were Taught in School

[Signa]

9th grade science teacher said that glass was molecularity a liquid. I thought he was right for years, but I've found out that myth was busted.

 

[Lord Thodin]

Everybody poops. Theres no way my English teacher can poop. Shes way too uptight

 

[Kimarous]

"I before E except after C"

Neither
Feisty
Weird
Science
Seize
Foreign
Ancient
Species

I could do this all day, people...

 

[DCFowl]

My english teacher tried to convince me that Illiria isn't a real place

 

[Julianking93]

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We've all had them before, when was a time where you were taught something in school and the teacher said it with the upmost sincerity and confidence, yet you either instantly knew it wasn't true or you later found out it wasn't true?

For me, it's a tie between when my 1st grade teacher told me the Sun rotates and revolves around the planets simultaneously with everything else, (I instantly called her out on that and I was 6.) and when my 8th grade American History teacher told the class that the founding fathers of America wanted it to be a strictly Christian nation. (once again, I instantly called him out on it and even quoted Benjamin Franklin when he said this would be a much better nation without religion.)

Did you go to school in SE Oklahoma? lol cause lol and idk everything has an opposite and equal reaction? Yeah thats a lie. Nothing can equal Chuck Norris Round house Kick

No. Tennessee. Signal Mountain TN which is an extremely repressed school that needs to be destroyed. Their bullshit Sex Ed class was the last straw and that was when I got home schooled. All it was was a bunch of stupid abstinence groups telling you about how you shouldn't have sex.

eh Deep South and Little Dixie....all them same man...
lol I cant home schooled because my mom, ironically, works in the school system and we need every little bit of money. lol and she isnt a fan of what they do either but hey it happens.

The south isn't as bad as most people think. [small/]still bad though[/small] but it doesn't deserve as bad a rap as it gets. Now, Alabama is a different story.

And, I call it homeschooling, but I really just study whatever the fuck I want. I have no interest in advanced Calculus or Algebra, so I don't take it. Its kinda like college but I'm in high school. I major in Psychology, Graphic Design, and Creative Writing.

 

[Singularly Datarific]

"I before E except after C"

Neither
Feisty
Weird
Science
Seize
Foreign
Ancient
Species

I could do this all day, people...

That's because its in english, I don't like my language.

 

[Deleted]

If I didn't act more enthusiastic I wouldn't survive highschool.


HA!

 

[badgersprite]

That Pluto was a planet. =(

...I miss Pluto.

 

[the_dancy_vagrant]

Cursive Righting for sure, they tried to convince us if we didn't learn to write in cursive we would wind up on the streets eating out of trash cans because all the schoolwork from that point on was supposably only supposed to have cursive.

Once I entered high school I was never asked to write in cursive ever again.

Assholes -.-

Yep, I was one of the last groups of kids in my state that had to go through this bullcrap. By the time I was in high school it was required in almost every class that any paper be typed. But holy crap did those elementary teachers go sick house on how awful your life would be if you couldn't write in cursive, it was like on the comparative scale of atrocity not being able to write cursive was right up there with torturing small animals for fun.

 

[Julianking93]

But yeah, my math teacher was trying to teach us Americans the metric system (keep in mind this is our 9th grade Algebra teacher), and she said that there was 100 mm in a meter and 10 cm in a mm. Really, 10 cetemeters that are each bigger than one Milameter fit in to one of them, that makes sence.

Fail, she got the whole class confused and simultaniusly the whole class said "I quit", and then we walked out right in front of her. It was HALARIUS.

HAH in Canada (the "way up there") the metric system is hilarous, i read your comment and then went to school. At school we learned about the imperial system. Our teacher said that if you wanted to know how big an inch was, use your big toe, if you want to know how big a foot is, use your foot. (she was dead serious)Keep in mind, however, that we are 14, our feet go as small as size 7. Someone threw a sock at her =P

Wow, only a size 7, here in America the 14 year olds foot is anywhere from a size 9 to a size 11. I'm a size 9 1/2, you know what they say about big feet...

Spoiler

big SOCKS, didnt expect that one you perv

i was thinking big shoes... and then i was thinking good surface area and grip on the ground.

You, my friend, are the first 14 year old to not say big dick, and i commend you for that. Seriosly every single person in my grade will say big dick (except me, i just get others to say it).

Since I was 14, I've had to special order my shoes at a size 15. Every time I tell someone that, their mind instantly goes to...well, you know.

 

[Ygfi]

But yeah, my math teacher was trying to teach us Americans the metric system (keep in mind this is our 9th grade Algebra teacher), and she said that there was 100 mm in a meter and 10 cm in a mm. Really, 10 cetemeters that are each bigger than one Milameter fit in to one of them, that makes sence.

Fail, she got the whole class confused and simultaniusly the whole class said "I quit", and then we walked out right in front of her. It was HALARIUS.

HAH in Canada (the "way up there") the metric system is hilarous, i read your comment and then went to school. At school we learned about the imperial system. Our teacher said that if you wanted to know how big an inch was, use your big toe, if you want to know how big a foot is, use your foot. (she was dead serious)Keep in mind, however, that we are 14, our feet go as small as size 7. Someone threw a sock at her =P

Wow, only a size 7, here in America the 14 year olds foot is anywhere from a size 9 to a size 11. I'm a size 9 1/2, you know what they say about big feet...

Spoiler

big SOCKS, didnt expect that one you perv

i was thinking big shoes... and then i was thinking good surface area and grip on the ground.

You, my friend, are the first 14 year old to not say big dick, and i commend you for that. Seriosly every single person in my grade will say big dick (except me, i just get others to say it).

Since I was 14, I've had to special order my shoes at a size 15. Every time I tell someone that, their mind instantly goes to...well, you know.

order in shoes... why didn't i think of that! i just took what i got, and i got shoes that i didn't like that much at the time... 15s are bloody hard to find though, you're not wrong!

 

[Lord Monocle Von Banworthy]

Is this only for academic classes? If not, I'm sure the top ten would all be things I learned in karate/kenpo/wushu/silat classes.

 

[dallan262]

"david stop doodling aniamtions and start doing some math!you wont get far in life if you continue doin that"

whos laughing now doing computer arts and working as a trainee animator at a certain well known scottish dev

 

[TriGGeR_HaPPy]

OT: Being taught (in about grade... 5 I think?) that the boiling point of water was 100 Degrees Fahrenheit.
Of course, a friend of mine and I quickly argued with him, he granted us the chance to quickly use the internet to find the answer to prove him right, to which my friend and I subsequently proved him wrong. ^_^
He was a good teacher otherwise though, so we didn't really hold it against him.

Ahahaha, he mixed up Celsius and Fahrenheit.

Yea... He was absolutely adamant he was right too...

Luckily, he wasn't too bad. When we proved him wrong, he accepted it, and moved on...
Again, he was a good teacher...

There have been other times too, with various teachers, but nothing as bad as what other people have said here. :S

 

[AndyMcNoob]

My Physics teacher told us global warming was real.
but to be fair after the lesson he said it was a load of crap and proved it to us.
its juts he had to teach it to us so we could pass the exams.
Can any one figre that out what is the poaint in teaching false things that the teachers disagree with

 

[aruseusx]

That Germans started World War One.

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

Also, I'm not sure if this is related to education, as I don't remember a teacher telling me, but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't come to the conclusion that being gay was illegal, and keep it for 12 years on my own.

My WW1 history isn't that good but I'm pretty sure it was Austro-Hungary started it when Serbia (I think) woundn't released their independance from them.

My RE class when all the teacher would do was give us half an hour discussion about life in general.

Mind you at least the textbook we used could take a few shots at itself. Example: Just because they were the pope doesn't mean they are perfect human beings, even Jesus sinned on one occasion and Peter fled because of fear.

 

[NezumiiroKitsune]

Everything I have ever been taught in science up to and including this point. To make any education in science until you reach degree level make sense you have to be taught lies to sit on top of the truth, because in place of those lies is something they assume you are too uneducated to comprehend. This is however a fair assumption. If someone had tried to explain Oxydative Phosphorylation to me when I was 10 I'd have probably cried and wanted to play that monkey counting game we had on the old Apple PCs...

Oh yes and the great lie we are constantly bombarded with for years up until advanced voluntary education (college, university etc...). YOU ARE SPECIAL AND GIFTED AND CANT LOSE >.<

 

[henrebotha]

I went to school in South Africa. My 6th-grade maths teacher tried taught me that 1 is a prime number (and hell, I believed her!).

Also, when I was in my final year of school (grade 12), I took extracurricular maths classes (as did everyone - passing the year is difficult otherwise), and the woman who taught those classes (who was a freaking maths badass) wouldn't accept that 0.999... = 1.