Most Inaccurate Lessons You Were Taught in School

[b4k4]

Don't misunderstand: Couldn't care less what silliness you believe in.
Don't care if you think Buddha is cool, or if Jesus is sweet, or if Mohammad is super-duper.
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.

I couldn't agree more, whenever I see someone launching into a monologue about how they religion is so great and everyone who's not a part of it needs to join up or go screw off, it makes me ashamed to admit that I'm a christian. I believe what I believe, and if you ask, I'll be happy to share, but I'm not gonna lock you in a steel cage while I explain every nuance of something you don't care about. What your teacher did was complete bullshit, and even defeated it's own purpose. All my friends are atheists or agnostics, and with every single one of them it's because they were forced to go to church (or Christian schooling) against their will. I was given a bit more leniency than them, and look at the results. Pretty clear which strategy is working.

Anyway, mine happened a couple weeks ago in my "Computer Competencies" class for college(I took essentially the same class my freshman year of highschool, but oh well): My teacher firmly believes that Linux is not now and never will be Open Source, and that Windows hasn't had a command prompt tool since windows 95.
Half an hour after she said that I went to an MS Dos class and opened up the command prompt in Windows XP....Even worse, I think this teacher is the department head.

 

[titanium turtle]

In my freshmen health class we were taught that if EVERYONE practiced abstinence their whole lives the world would automatically become a better place and worse of all i got a detention for asking how and offering the counter arguement that the human species would cease to exist if we followed that logic. The only answer i got was simply "God wouldn't let it happen". Damn bible-thumpers

ok: rant time:

Celibacy / celibacy before marriage is a total load of utter bullshit
1:if everyone was celibate humans would cease to exist
2:everone will be really tightly wound and frustrated
3:life would lose quite a lot of meaning
4if youre religious)- got gave us sex organs FOR A REASON
5:celibacy is boring- it's like hey kids you can either have cake or not have cake- EVER!
6:find me one teenage guy that wants to be celibate
7:who the fuck decided celibacy would help anything and what the fuck is that logic
8:they never explain how this works
9:wouldnt it be shit if you save yourself until marriage and then you find out that you AND your partner are terrible at sex- you are then stuck in a dry sexless marriage forever
10:if god exists he must be a dick if he gives people urges and tries to make them celibate

I can probably think of more

 

[titanium turtle]

Don't know if its been said already, but my teacher was a religious nut. Everyday she would come up with reasons on how masterbation would give everyone cancer, send us to hell, melt us(?), and everyday it would be something new. I remember some kids tried to argue against her, fun day.

people like that are idiots

 

[XIII's Number XIV]

At the beginning of the class this year, my Bio XL teacher told us that all of the lessons that she'll teach us are accurate. Now, I'm just an average kid, and I don't know how I did this, but I totally owned my teacher one lesson by proving a theory wrong.

I didn't have to do the test, lol.

 

[TheGreatCoolEnergy]

there are 9 planets. i dont care what ANY teacher says, Pluto is a planet.

So you disagree with Ph.Ds and other people who have spent their whole lives studying a subject much longer than you have?

Due to recent discoveries actualy, if Pluto were to keep it's planet status there are 4 or 5 other similar bodies that would have to be upgraded to planets.

Indeed, I find that to be an interesting discovery, but I was discussing the fallacy of some random high school or college student disagreeing on a non-moral/philosophical issue (because morals and philosophy have no right or wrong answers) with people who have Ph.Ds or have otherwise spent their entire lives being educated in and studying the issue. I'm not saying we should hold everything they say at absolute truth value, because there's certainly wiggle room and Ph.Ds, contrary to what they may tell you, can still make mistakes, nevertheless, I'm not inclined to believe some random person on the internet who says that he or she is right and scientists are wrong.

Call me wrong all you want, but look into it. The reason I previously gave, combined with the fact that it has an irregular orbit(around the sun) are the 2 biggest reasons that led them to conclude that Pluto should be considered a minor body.

Spoiler: Links(if you won't take my word)

[link]http://www.fredbortz.com/askplanets.htm[/link]
[link]http://www.wisegeek.com/why-isnt-pluto-a-planet-anymore.htm[/link]
[link]http://www.universetoday.com/2008/04/10/why-pluto-is-no-longer-a-planet/[/link]
I can find more if you really want me to.

 

[kmiik]

So you disagree with Ph.Ds and other people who have spent their whole lives studying a subject much longer than you have?

Yes I do. Why is it that Pluto is no longer a planet but other, larger, solar bodies such as Eris, are still not considered planets?

 

[EliteFreq]

I once had a supply teacher for an RE(Religious Education) lesson who was trying to explain the importance of Asia, she told us that all religion comes from there and that it's the centre of the Universe. I'm not even kidding...

This is pretty true they are the most advanced country in the world look at anything you have chances are china invented it.

China didn't invent the rotary washing line.

Anyway she meant western Asia ad seemed to be taking it very literally. She drew a diagram with western Asia in the middle and the rest of the countries surrounding it and drew lines coming from western Asia to show that it's great.