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.
‘‘You won’t have a calculator in your pocket all the time!’’
People believe enough random bullshit to tickle their memories with their classics list.
I didn’t graduate highschool though
The book Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen goes a long way to accomplish this. At least it did for me.
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.
USA is a democracy
1987 Edison was a genius and invented everything, Turns out he was actually the Elon Musk of his time.
The United States is a constitutional Republic/democracy with 3 co-equal branches of government…
Work hard and you will be rewarded and taken care of. LOLLLLLLLLLL.
"What you were taught
“Flu shots give you the flu”What we know now
A common misconception…Updated understanding emerged around 2020"
Updated for whom? Anti-vaccine idiots?
I don’t care if it’s wrong, Marilyn Manson had his ribs removed so he could blow himself
He responded to this rumor in his autobiography saying “If I really got my ribs removed, I would have been busy sucking my own dick on The Wonder Years instead of chasing Winnie Cooper. Plus, who really has time to be killing puppies when you can be sucking your own dick? I think I’m gonna call the surgeon in the morning”
They taught you that in school?
I learned that in middle school. It was from a kid on the bus but it was still middle school.
lololol
Believe it or not, this rumor actually stretches all the way back to dianunzio from Italy in the 1940s.
I still want whoever decided that “I before E except after C” should be taught to children locked up. Im almost 50, and I still spell “their” wrong if I dont concentrate.
“I before E, except after C, or when sounded as ‘ay,’ like in ‘Neighbour’ and ‘Weigh.’”
…Or when running a feisty heist with their weird, foreign neighbour, Keith.
“I before E exthept after ‘th’” should do the trick. Just have to remember that the last part is pronounced “thee”.
Oh so we graduated almost at the same time it seems.
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.
I guess the big one for me is the whole Mozart for babies thing. It wasn’t Mozart’s music making babies and young children smarter, it was a combination of more affluent parents or at least parents with college plus educations having time and income to spend on enrichment activities.
Oh, thanks! That makes so much more sense!
On a tangential note, I find hilarious which songs my toddler picks up and which ones are immediately forgotten. Somehow APT and Hey Jude are the shit, most of everything else doesn’t stick. Wonder why…
I think it’s just songs with the right kind of beat that they like. My sister’s kid is very partial to Uptown Girl, of course she doesn’t know the lyrics but she can sort of sing the tune. It took me a while to work out what it was.
Yeah, but that doesn’t stop baby toy markers from including that shit in every product
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions
The history list was most interesting in my opinion.
Obligatory “there’s a xkcd for anything, isn’t it?”
