What was a fact taught to you in school that has been proven false during your lifetime?
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Some supermarkets has calculators built into their carts
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Tiny photocell powered calculators used to be everywhere. There were “thin” ones to fit in your Costanza sized wallet, Mousepads with them built in, and my wristwatch in 6th grade had one with tiny rubber keys.
It was a magical time till be alive. 5318008
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Some supermarkets has calculators built into their carts
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Yep, back in the 90s they were in some places. My local supermarket had one like this, except without the annoying ad on the left side.
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Basically everything I can recall being told in D.A.R.E program classes (war on drugs era propaganda taught in public schools in the USA) was utter nonsense and fabricated bullshit. After actually having personal experience with most of the substances they vilified, none of the effects - good or ill - are what I was taught in that ridiculous program.
On the contrary, some of the fear tactics they used made me curious to investigate on my own. The breathlessly scared rural teacher describing the mind bending effects that "magic mushrooms" was supposed to have sounded fascinating to teenage me. In reality, they are very fun and therapeutic to use, but nothing like the wild Alice in Wonderland mind journey they made it sound like it would be.
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Pluto is a great test for what types of person someone is.
If someone says Pluto is still a planet. They have a personality where they are immovable and can't accept scientific change.
If they do say pluto is a new kind of dwarf planet they arw more accepting of new information and belive in the scientific method.
It's a great quick test when meeting news people.
Or the third option of they recognize that scientifically Pluto is a dwarf planet and no longer a 'full' planet, but they also anthropomorphize everything to an unhealthy degree and don't want to hurt the feelings of Pluto by saying it isn't a planet anymore
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I was also taught this in school, along with many very unscientific things. When they eventually taught us about evolution (they had to because of national curriculum) they couldn't stop stressing how it was "just an outdated theory" and showed us additional videos which "disproved" it
Come on, I like a good "look at how stupid those Americans are" as much as anyone, but for it to be funny it has to be within the realm of what could possibly be true.
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Dont know about the first two, but heart disease do. heart stroke happened to my mother and both her parents, her dad died from it. My fathers dad died of brain store and doctors say he heart is also weaken(mostly from smoking 30+ years)
For two and three, even if there weren't a genetic component, the lifestyle and dietary habits of a family absolutely do impact the next generation of the family. Learned behaviors that increase of alcoholism or heart disease absolutely count as "runs in the family". Further, "runs in the family" never meant "everyone in the family absolutely has it".
(None of this directed to the comment I'm replying to, just continuing the thought of the comment.)
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There are 10 Commandments.
No - there's 14.
Here's video evidence from a documentary I watched abouy what happened and why they ended up with 10.
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"You need to learn this because you won't always have a calculator on you!"
I feel have super power by being to calculate accurate tips without needing to crack out my phone.
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That blood is actually blue until it gets in contact with air
Easy to proof: Vaccumated capsule to draw blood.
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n many countries, including the United states, the core studies are taught through the end of Junior High School. And that's when mandatory education ends. So you should expect to see a lot more variety in high school.
As a teacher myself, I don't try to tell students what to believe, but I certainly don't run away from talking about political issues. If you're teaching English or science or social studies or foreign language, and you are working hard to avoid politics, you're doing your students a disservice.
For example, suppose you're teaching high school economics right now. Would you honestly not talk about the Trump tariffs? That would be the most ludicrous idea imaginable. Clearly the students want to know what's going on, they hear it on TV, they read it in the newspaper, and you're the expert so you should be telling them what's going on. Right? And if you're going to talk about them, you're probably going to be critical of them with good reason.
But anyway, I've heard people express views similar to yours over the years, and essentially many people with that view think that school could be or should be talked entirely by mindless robots. I don't think that's a great way to teach kids, I'm happy I didn't grow up in such a system, but if that's what you want then more power to you.
It's less that I don't want them mentioning anything that connects to politics and it's more about wanting them to just present information without any additional spin.
So "Trump has put tarrifs on x countries for x amount" vs "Trump has stupidly put x tarrifs on x countries because he's a hateful tyrant" or whatever. I think you get what I'm trying to say.
I have absolutely no problem with talking about politics as it's pretty much impossible to mention anything in history without it, but it can be done so in very different ways. I would prefer that teachers remain as neutral as they can while presenting only factual information on whatever political topics comes up.
Kinda how I wish the news would go back to facts first reporting as opposed to this current "rush the story out before we fact check anything and make the headline as polarizing as we can to generate maximum clicks. Who cares if we have to issue a correction later on page 97 in .5 size font (or at all) we just want clicks!" Type of "news" we have now.
I blame Reagan.
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Trickle down economics are an effective way to redistribute wealth
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My sysadmin professor told me to not learn about tape backups because they are going away soon
Like 3 years later ransomware was invented
Idk you can only ‘learn’ them if you have one and even the shittiest tape drive I could find as a consumer doesn’t help me at all with a tape library. We have our tape admin (=our architect) who we thank god every day for because we didn’t have to bother with it. Now he’s retiring this year.. F
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Come on, I like a good "look at how stupid those Americans are" as much as anyone, but for it to be funny it has to be within the realm of what could possibly be true.
I'm not even American mate
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I'm not even American mate
But the joke here is about Americans, right? (If not, what is the joke that you're trying to make!?)
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The United States operates on the principle of three co-equal branches of government, which check and balance each others power.
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What? As in Schrödinger's cat? Interesting!
Why does a mouse own a dog? And how come the mouse is also friends with another dog? What’s going on there?
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Pluto is a great test for what types of person someone is.
If someone says Pluto is still a planet. They have a personality where they are immovable and can't accept scientific change.
If they do say pluto is a new kind of dwarf planet they arw more accepting of new information and belive in the scientific method.
It's a great quick test when meeting news people.
Well, Pluto being reclassified as a dwarf planet doesn't really have anything to do with the scientific method. "Planet" is a manmade concept, we just changed the definition for that classification to avoid having to add the dozens of bodies we discovered since Pluto that would have also met the old definition.
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Allergies are entirely genetic. Apparently they ain't or so I hear but it's a bit above my paygrade biology wise
Epigenetics in general really messed with what a lot of people learned in school
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Oxford comma for life!
It’s useful, helps with the flow of the ideas, and is more like the sentence is spoken.
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Oxford comma for life!
I was taught to use the Oxford comma by my parents, Ayn Rand and God. I had a strange upbringing.
