When I was in elementary school, teachers told me that Columbus discovered America. When I was in high school - that there are nine planets in the Solar system, including Pluto. After algebra lessons in high school, I knew for sure that Fermat’s Last Theorem had no proof…Do you know what those all have in common? Yes, that’s right - some time passed, literally several years, and everything that the teacher said turned out to be untrue. More precisely, not even a lie - just science convincingly refuted everything that was considered an indisputable truth earlier. And I’m not alone here - inthis thread in the AskReddit community, many netizens share similar stories from their own school years.More info:RedditThis post may includeaffiliate links.
When I was in elementary school, teachers told me that Columbus discovered America. When I was in high school - that there are nine planets in the Solar system, including Pluto. After algebra lessons in high school, I knew for sure that Fermat’s Last Theorem had no proof…
Do you know what those all have in common? Yes, that’s right - some time passed, literally several years, and everything that the teacher said turned out to be untrue. More precisely, not even a lie - just science convincingly refuted everything that was considered an indisputable truth earlier. And I’m not alone here - inthis thread in the AskReddit community, many netizens share similar stories from their own school years.
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Hard work will be noticed and rewarded.
“You’ll never get a job looking out the window!”I’m an airline pilot.
That Christopher Columbus was a great guy and all the natives rose up in celebration when he came.Yea, I don’t teach history that way.
Plate tectonics. When I was in the 1st grade I saw a map of the world and I told my teacher that it looks like all the continents used to fit together, but they moved apart.My teacher laughed at me and loudly proclaimed I was an idiot with a wild imagination.School kids laughed.Jokes on them.
“You won’t always have a calculator in your pocket!”
That standardized tests help kids learn better. No, no they did not.
I had a teacher in 4^th grade that would force left handed kids to write with their right hand.she said that it was the normal way to write and would benefit them later in life.(circa, 1974)
“That’s exactly the problem with printed textbooks in today’s world,” says Olga Kopylova, Ph.D.,associate professor of economics at Odessa National Maritime University, whomBored Pandaasked for a comment here. “For example, if you are holding a paper school or university textbook released in 2023, this most likely means that it was written several years ago. The writing process itself takes a lot of time, and then coordination, approval, the process of submitting to printing, distribution - some scientific books today have time to become obsolete, even before being printed. And this is not a drawback, it’s just the reality of our time.““As for searching for information online, on your own or under the guidance of any mentor, another problem arises here. The colossal amount of available information makes it difficult, firstly, to select reliable sources, and secondly, to analyze it. Artificial intelligence was designed to help a person understand all this - but today it often even gets in the way. At least in the scientific world, there are now numerous cases when unscrupulous researchers abuse the capabilities of AI to create a large number of fake articles. Someday, of course, this will stabilize, but so far the educational process lives in an era of great change,” Olga sums up.
“That’s exactly the problem with printed textbooks in today’s world,” says Olga Kopylova, Ph.D.,associate professor of economics at Odessa National Maritime University, whomBored Pandaasked for a comment here. “For example, if you are holding a paper school or university textbook released in 2023, this most likely means that it was written several years ago. The writing process itself takes a lot of time, and then coordination, approval, the process of submitting to printing, distribution - some scientific books today have time to become obsolete, even before being printed. And this is not a drawback, it’s just the reality of our time.”
“As for searching for information online, on your own or under the guidance of any mentor, another problem arises here. The colossal amount of available information makes it difficult, firstly, to select reliable sources, and secondly, to analyze it. Artificial intelligence was designed to help a person understand all this - but today it often even gets in the way. At least in the scientific world, there are now numerous cases when unscrupulous researchers abuse the capabilities of AI to create a large number of fake articles. Someday, of course, this will stabilize, but so far the educational process lives in an era of great change,” Olga sums up.
I was always taught Mississippi’s secession from the union in the civil war was to preserve state’s right to be independent and nothing at all to do with slavery. That Confederate heritage was about family and not racism.Slavery is mentioned in the very first sentence of the first paragraph of the letter of secession as the primary reason. They decided if they couldn’t own humans anymore it would crash the economy.
That people only use 10% of their brains. I mean some do, but that’s not normal
Are you intentionally trying to get my generation riled up about Pluto again? Lol
When I was a kid, the Giant Squid had never been captured or photographed, and some people talked about it like it was el chupacabra. My little brother always said he’d be the first person to get footage of one. Sadly, it has since become an ordinary animal that we know exists. RIP the Kraken
The USA is the only free country
Cracking your knuckles causes arthritis.
That Columbus was the first European to step foot in the new world. Once found an old textbook that stated this. This was prior to the discovery of the Viking settlement in Nfld.
So many things. The lifetime of facts is shorter than you’d think. Among them:* You use 10% of your brain (was in a textbook)* Model of the atom* What composes a healthy diet* Various histories from how dinosaurs looked to what life was like in the Middle Ages* Causes of ulcers, poor vision, acne..
That you’re gonna end up working a minimum wage job if you don’t go to college.
My f*****g history teacher taught us how great of a president Woodrow Wilson was.I later learned he was a literal white supremacist who admired the KKK and an overall giant racist even for his time.
The American Civil War wasn’t about slavery.
Blood is blue until exposed to oxygen
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From an educational filmstrip: “Saturn has four beautiful rings…” The Voyager photos of the thousands of rings had come in like a week before we watched this.
that microwaves kill all the nutrients in food.
If you throw ANYTHING at ANY speed in ANY direction it will go directly in some kids eye. ALWAYS…. Always .. edit: no just SOMETIMES … always… I’m talking about you can’t even casually toss your fork in the sink without it defying physics and going in the eye of someone who isn’t even in the room
Bohrs Atomic ModelTaste budsWe only have 5 sensesBrain cells, once lost, are gone.Dogs and cats see in black and white.Wolf packs have alphas. Turns out wolves are a lot like humans and the ‘alphas’ are simply the sire and b***h of the wolf pack (their parents) and they follow them and respect them because they’re the ones who taught them how to hunt and survive.
When my mom graduated high school in 1944, the nuns were teaching that the atom could not be split. I think the Manhattan Project was already extant at the time. Correct me if I’m wrong, I did see Oppenheimer twice.
So many but I’ll start with cold blooded dinosaurs. I was in college when opinions about them changed.
Germany would never reunite. The French would never allow it.
Glass is actually a liquid, which is why old windows look droopy.I was definitely in my 20’s before I learned that wasn’t true.
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Neurons can never regenerate. This was from my then-one-year-old anatomy and physiology textbook, and my private, Catholic school actually took - and still takes - its science seriously; we never talked about creationism or the divine influence on our natural world, not to mention our solid AP Physics and AP Chemistry scores. It turns out that that the peripheral neuron system actually can regenerate; as of now, it doesn’t seem that the central nervous system has much in the way of that capability.
There are no planets outside our solar system.
The likely persistence of Soviet hegemony in Eastern Europe. Turns out: nah.
There are only a few dozen viruses and a few hundred bacteria types.Turns out that there are millions of viruses and trillions of bacteria.
I went to a fundamentalist christian school, most of the “facts” I was taught were disproven long before I was born.
The clitoris is external genitalia. It is more like an iceberg, with most of it being internal with just a bit poking up the top
Ain’t isn’t a word.
Extinct volcanoes are completely dead and will never, ever erupt again.
One that pops to mind is Niels Bohr and the electron cloud. He won a Nobel prize for it. Then his kid won one for proving he was wrong.I wouldn’t necessarily call that a fact though.
My history teacher taught us Italy is in Africa
The appendix is a vestigial organ
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