Lets just say that both collage & the History Channel shit on everything I was taugh in highschool American History.
Most Inaccurate Lessons You Were Taught in School
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I got the gist that Ares was the god of war, but he represented the brutality and barbarity of it. He wasn't a god you directly worshiped (except truly war obessed people like Spartans), he was one you feared.
Athena being patron of Athens, the big city for Greek enlightment was the goddess of wisdom, but she was a warrior goddess representing the disciplined nature of war, tactics etc.
Athena being patron of Athens, the big city for Greek enlightment was the goddess of wisdom, but she was a warrior goddess representing the disciplined nature of war, tactics etc.
That evolution (they did not say macro evolution or micro evolution) is a massive fraud because the bible is history, or His Story, as they put it, so it must be literally true.
That when a female loses her virginity, she bleeds (I knew this isn't always the case) and it's a representation of a covenant between husband and wife, or something.
That the bible it true because it says it is.
That Atheism was Charles Darwins fault.
That when a female loses her virginity, she bleeds (I knew this isn't always the case) and it's a representation of a covenant between husband and wife, or something.
That the bible it true because it says it is.
That Atheism was Charles Darwins fault.
Two related ones;
A) Atoms are the smallest particles you can get (proven wrong by B)
B) the electrons in an atom revolve around the nucleus in cirlces.
when infact electrons can go anyway at any length as long as they are inside their zones.. which usually arn't circles!
A) Atoms are the smallest particles you can get (proven wrong by B)
B) the electrons in an atom revolve around the nucleus in cirlces.
when infact electrons can go anyway at any length as long as they are inside their zones.. which usually arn't circles!
No, you can'tcaptainwillies said:hmmmm i feel that there may be a loss of communication because of semantics somewhere in these posts/replies. Very well! may i request some sources and references on this knowledge.BlueMage said:No, Nike was the personification of victory. Calling Nike a goddess would be a stretch. Although feminine in aspect, she didn't have the powers normally attributed to the Olympians.captainwillies said:yeah. so? were did she get that info from? western history books often get things wrong. Besides Athena can't be the goddess of victory because "Nike" was the Greek goddess of victory/triumph look it upLooK iTz Jinjo said:Actually she was bothcaptainwillies said: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
Yes, I fancy myself an amateur classical greek mythology scholar.
the particular book was a gift from my dear sister when I was 9 years old. It .... has not survived the rigours of being read and re-read so often. Robert Graves was one of the primary contributors and editors, however.
quite a bit of science i learnt at GCSE level turned out to be dumbed down to the point that it wasn't actaully true. I can't remember specifics apart from that some of it was about light and gravity, but i remember starting Physics AS and think "But we were told differently in GCSEE"
My government teacher in HS said that "if it's not Republican, it's just Communism"
Also, I always saw teachers teaching that the platypus is the only egg laying mammal. This is untrue, the echidna lays eggs and there's at least 4 different species of them.
Also, I always saw teachers teaching that the platypus is the only egg laying mammal. This is untrue, the echidna lays eggs and there's at least 4 different species of them.
Basically my English teachers just an idiot. Everything she teaches us is either read straight from a book, or just plain wrong.
what was the book called? The Greek Myths? Greek Gods and Heroes?BlueMage said:No, you can't
EDIT: HOLY CRAP HE HELPED TRANSLATE "The Rubaiyyat of Omar Khayyam"!!!!! O_0 *stunned*
probably means nothing to you but that just blew my mind.
One of the few things my high school taught me was that I had to go on to university and get a degree, just because I was good academically.
Bollocks! They were just a bunch of elitist snobs who measured success with grades and didn't care about students, they just wanted to look impressive!
In case anyone didn't notice, I don't like that school very much...
Bollocks! They were just a bunch of elitist snobs who measured success with grades and didn't care about students, they just wanted to look impressive!
In case anyone didn't notice, I don't like that school very much...
The civil war started to free the slaves, is my number one beef with my grade school teachers also
them still saying Columbus was the first to discover the new world is BS
them still saying Columbus was the first to discover the new world is BS
In year 7 or 8, A science teacher or a Substitute for Science was teaching us about the rotation of Earth and it's orbit. She started saying that we can't feel the Earth turning because it spins so slowly. I think that considering the Earth's rotational speed at the point where I live is around 900mph or 1500km/h it is safe to say the teacher was wrong. How I wish I knew then what I know now.
just recently my Honors History teacher who i have tremendous respect for, said something along the lines of at the time of the Revolutionary war America was the only republic in the world.
Not true.
Not counting the Athenian or Roman republics there was Venice, San Marino, and the Netherlands
Not true.
Not counting the Athenian or Roman republics there was Venice, San Marino, and the Netherlands
Everything i was taught about WWII in school was a lie.I have read over 30 books on WWII so i think i should know that D-Day happened in France.We'll everyone should know but.But our teacher said that it happened in Spain.
I couldn't walk out of that classroom faster after he said that.
I couldn't walk out of that classroom faster after he said that.
I don't know if this is a lie but when we were learning about cave people and their process ofcutting a hole in the head to cure ilness the teacher said it was called Trephining. Then another teacher called it Trepanning. Wut?
Wasn't that called Pangea? The universal continent?skyfire_freckles said:
It is a common hypothesis of the tectonic shifting.
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about.... half the stuff in my health class (AKA drugs and sex class)
They were so busy trying to scare us into compliance they failed to consider the damage caused by children learning that teachers, schools, and education mechanisms in general, were subject to outside influence, that they did not have compunction against lying to us, and that they were no longer trustworthy.
*sigh*
I miss my naive sense of bliss.