I think the biggest one that was drilled into us constantly, especially about WW2 and Nazis was
“ Those Who Cannot Remember the Past Are Condemned To Repeat It”
This was a load of shit as evidenced by what is going on in the USA right now and other parts of the world. The real lesson should have been to push back the second a nazi takes an inch as they will take more if you play the nice and tolerate. Not everyone is well intentioned.
1987 Edison was a genius and invented everything, Turns out he was actually the Elon Musk of his time.
‘‘You won’t have a calculator in your pocket all the time!’’
USA is a democracy
The United States is a constitutional Republic/democracy with 3 co-equal branches of government…
When I was in school, we were taught that vaccines work. /s
Work hard and you will be rewarded and taken care of. LOLLLLLLLLLL.
The book Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen goes a long way to accomplish this. At least it did for me.
Oh I’ve got a good one. Learned in the American south. Supposedly the American Civil War was not fought over slavery, but differing railroad track widths. Slavery was a minor detail that was a scape goat for the north to force the south to use its standard railroad width.
School experiences are too varied for such a site to exist. Examples:
Climate change was universally agreed upon to exist and be caused by people 30 years ago. For some reason it no longer appears to be.
Leif Erikson was taught to us back then but you’ll find people today that celebrate Columbus.
Sure, some are still taught. Like you can catch a cold from being in the cold.
When I graduated highschool, the idea that some dinosaurs had feathers and evolved into birds was still “fringe science”.
In my moc-GCSE year(s), my science teacher was so confident that blood was blue in the veins, I called her out on it but she was so adamant about it.
I went through the two websites posted here for graduation year 2008. The only incorrect thing I was taught that I still believed was:
“Learning styles (visual, auditory, kinesthetic) determine how you best learn”
False. Huh.
The fact that we thought Pluto was a planet seemed absolutely insane at the time but none of the kids could question the adult in the room when the stupid rock is literally not even staying in its own lane
