Most Inaccurate Lessons You Were Taught in School

[Christemo]

Athena was the Greek goddess of war/victory. WRONG she was the goddess of wisdom. what makes it even worse is the teacher was greek

Actually she was both (Yeah my mums Greek and taught yr12 Classics for 10 years) Athena was the Goddess of War and Victory as well as being the Goddess of Wisdom, you were both right .


As for what I got told well... That all video game violence is evil and we should not be allowed to play games at all. This was by my english teacher in a letter home to all parents of students in his class after explaining it to us and having a heated argument with about half the class.

if memory serves, she isnt the Goddess of War. Ares is The God of War (no, i didnt get that from playing God of War) and Strife.

 

[captainwillies]

My 1st grade teacher said that there was no life before cavemen.

surely she just meant human life? (even though she'd still be wrong to a certain degree).

 

[Cid Silverwing]

that being a nice person always pays off in the end.... yea, right.

I can actually vouch for this one.

 

[IronicBeet]

My 1st grade teacher said that there was no life before cavemen.

surely she just meant human life? (even though she'd still be wrong to a certain degree).

No, she meant that cavemen were the first beings on earth. I know, pants-on-head-retarded.

 

[Christemo]

i havent encountered anything real bad yet that i can remember, but im pretty sure i could replace our teacher if we´re ever to have Greek Mythology as a subject.

 

[LooK iTz Jinjo]

Athena was the Greek goddess of war/victory. WRONG she was the goddess of wisdom. what makes it even worse is the teacher was greek

Actually she was both (Yeah my mums Greek and taught yr12 Classics for 10 years) Athena was the Goddess of War and Victory as well as being the Goddess of Wisdom, you were both right .


As for what I got told well... That all video game violence is evil and we should not be allowed to play games at all. This was by my english teacher in a letter home to all parents of students in his class after explaining it to us and having a heated argument with about half the class.

if memory serves, she isnt the Goddess of War. Ares is The God of War (no, i didnt get that from playing God of War) and Strife.

While your memory serves you correct that Ares is the God of War, his Sister ATHENA is also the goddess of war.

 

[Woodsey]

In year 4 (I was about 8) we had a teacher who left, and then this old bat covered for a while before we got a decent one. Only problem was she was a complete bible basher, so when a friend of mine asked something along the lines of: "Why are sheep covered in wool?" instead of giving the answer any rational person would she replied: "Oh, because God made them that way, that's why."

NO. Just describe evolution very simply you old witch!

 

[Zac_Dai]

Wow the American education is pretty fucking terrible by the sounds of it.

I mean I had teachers who were arseholes, but at least they knew the subjects they were teaching.

 

[RabidusUnus]

My school is pretty decent, but they still teach that there are 3, and ONLY three, states of matter. Plasma doesn't wink out of existence as soon as you enter the damn building.

 

[Racistman3d]

That black people have smaller brains than white people, and are naturally more violent and prone to commit crimes simply because of their race....
Oddly enough, this was from a substitute teacher talking about segregation in the US, and went on to talk about how it wasn't as bad for blacks as the jewish run media likes to point out.
Never had her again, I think/hope she was fired.

 

[Superior Mind]

Probably something like: "Trust me, this will be useful to you later in life."

 

[Donkey_Kong]

My GCSE biology teacher taught us that "anything that you out in the body that isn't food is a drug". So water, air, chewing gum and wax crayons are all drugs

 

[NIHILHATE]

Drugs education, pure and simple.

 

[Captain Pancake]

My history teacher telling me it was criminal to buy stock then sell it.

I'm assuming that's what you do with stock, hell some people make a living out of buying and selling at the right times.

 

[waterhazard]

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.

 

[Citrus]

A middle school Foods teacher once told me that you don't need much education to be a programmer. She compared it to being a cashier.

Then I grew up and found out that programming is almost entirely math. In fact, it's one of the few things that advanced math is good for. I'd be hard-pressed to believe that you could pluck someone from McDonald's, put them in front of a computer, and have them write a physics engine, but hey.

She was a pretty technologically inept person though (she was around 60 years old I believe), so I guess I can see where the ignorance comes from.

 

[Zagzag]

We have this really weird English teacher. We sere studying poems for our exams and one of them happened to be about slavery. Our English Teacher then began to give us her potted history of Slavery, despite the fact the class were aged about 16 and had heard it all hundreds of times before. According to her, after slaves were captured in Africa they were then forced into boats and chained to oars and then had to row all the way to America. During the voyage they were then (supposedly) forced to Limbo Dance for the entertainment of the crew. Our teacher had clearly got her time periods and common sense mixed up.

This story was not helped by the fact that we were simltaeously studying slavery and its aftermath in both History and RE!

 

[Larmo]

Almost all history classes before college give the impression of history as one big logical progression, from the unhappy and unfair past to the completely and utterly perfect present. The suggest that the victories of the current ideas about morality and economy--basically, "Everyone's equal" and "Capitalism wins"--were inevitable, and will last forever. It's as though the textbook writers see the whole thing as a big story, and they decided to remove all tension, moral ambiguity, and give the whole thing a nice big happy ending.

Not that I'm bitter, or anything.

My history teacher in High school was very good about that, i found her very informative. She was always explaining the other side to every topic and encouraged discussion and debate about controversial issues, she was awesome.

 

[Vuljatar]

The top 3 would probably be;

"The Founding Fathers were devout Christians and wanted to create a Christian nation"

"The civil war was about slavery"

"Lemmings throw themselves off cliffs"