This pissed me off, but in RE (religious education), i was reading a book and i noticed that it said the "Little boy" nuclear bomb dropped during world war 2 was the size of a cricket ball. Then my teacher quoted it word for word while talking about war. I loved this teacher she was awesome but i had to challenge her so i spoke up "google it, the thing was huge and they had to climb into the back of it to arm it. You cant climb into a cricket ball!"
Most Inaccurate Lessons You Were Taught in School
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HAHA nice, i had a government teach fail me for being to conservitive, she literly gave me a zero for the quarter because i said government should be smaller not biggerscareBro said:
I cant remember what but my 6th grade history teacher tried to teach us something about communism in the ancient world
"You can't take the sqaure root of a negative number" Is a quote out of context. The other half is: " and use it as a real number in mathematical context."
My Media teacher taught us about the Hillsborough Disaster, using the Sun and the police reports as the major sources.
For those who don't know, the Hillsborough Disaster happened when Liverpool played Notts Forest a while ago, there were too many people in the stadium and more outside trying to get in. The police were told to allow the people outside to come in, creating a crushing effect in one of the "pens" (high-walled fences stopping the fans getting onto the pitch), and when they tried to climb the fence to get out, they where beaten down by coppers. The Sun reported a police-skewed version of it, suggesting that it was entirely the fans fault. 97 Liverpool fans died that day, and the police chief has since been prosecuted for gross negligence. I called my teacher out on this, because the way that she told it the Liverpool fans were a bunch of animals who were the sole cause of the disaster. My mum would have been a 17 year old girl in those stalls, but she had her ticket nicked whilst she was on the train down there.
For those who don't know, the Hillsborough Disaster happened when Liverpool played Notts Forest a while ago, there were too many people in the stadium and more outside trying to get in. The police were told to allow the people outside to come in, creating a crushing effect in one of the "pens" (high-walled fences stopping the fans getting onto the pitch), and when they tried to climb the fence to get out, they where beaten down by coppers. The Sun reported a police-skewed version of it, suggesting that it was entirely the fans fault. 97 Liverpool fans died that day, and the police chief has since been prosecuted for gross negligence. I called my teacher out on this, because the way that she told it the Liverpool fans were a bunch of animals who were the sole cause of the disaster. My mum would have been a 17 year old girl in those stalls, but she had her ticket nicked whilst she was on the train down there.
My health teacher told me that babies come out a vagina. I was so insulted that I almost said something, but I decided to just leave a leaf of cabbage on her desk. We all know the truth.
The Sun were proper douches after Hillsborough. I'm a Liverpudlian myself and no one buys the Sun here these days, even after the Sun issued an formal apology.
Ditto, one major gem I have found in my working life is that, qualifications will get you the job, but skills and experince will get you respect from your peers, and in some cases studentsGeek@Heart said:
OP: 'Teachers will allways be right'. A friend of mine argued with the teacher in a music lesson, and when the teacher insisted he teach the lesson 'as he knew everthing' he performed the piece flawlessly and was given detention for 'talking back to the teacher'! Since when did teachers become these all-powerful, all knowing creatures?
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.
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.
I think the one thing that once you're smart enough to call your teacher out on something, you should be smart enough to understand that teachers are just people, usually well-meaning people, but they have their limitations and misconceptions.
I learned to be critical at an early age because my grandfather's delight was to playfully teach us everything the wrong way (which is why I called hand feet and feet hands for a while). It engrains that every message is subjective. What I wish I had learned at a younger age is to deal more nicely and gracefully when I know someone is wrong instead of blasting it in their face or ignoring everything they say from that point on.
I learned to be critical at an early age because my grandfather's delight was to playfully teach us everything the wrong way (which is why I called hand feet and feet hands for a while). It engrains that every message is subjective. What I wish I had learned at a younger age is to deal more nicely and gracefully when I know someone is wrong instead of blasting it in their face or ignoring everything they say from that point on.
I've been in three high schools, and in every one, Global History consists only of Western Europe and America. Forget China, we have Britain. Ottoman Empire, forget those Islamics, let's learn about the American Revolution for a couple of months. :/