What "FACT" were you TAUGHT in School that you later Learned was COMPLETELY UNTRUE? - Reddit Podcast

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  • @amithegenius
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    • @JooseyLoosey
      @JooseyLoosey 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

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  • @RyeRye9254
    @RyeRye9254 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    That high school is the best four years of your life. My HS principal and vice principal said this a lot. I'm sure that's true for a few folks, but myself and a whole lot of people I know are happier now as full-fledged adults than they were as high schoolers.

    • @KitKat10281
      @KitKat10281 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I am one of those adults! I didn't really like high school - or really college, either, for that matter. However, now, as an adult, I am quite happy!

  • @TheDixieDerg
    @TheDixieDerg 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    My class was also told we had no rights, that immediately started a school wide protest lol

  • @nvdawahyaify
    @nvdawahyaify 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    The tin whistle would actually be a better instrument for teaching children, than the recorder. The fingering is more straightforward and intuitive.

    • @ruairi9109
      @ruairi9109 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Most countries I know actually used tin whistle

  • @Dreamspawn1978
    @Dreamspawn1978 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    But... I learned negative numbers at the SAME TIME I was learning mathematics. The basics for really young me was explained with you have 4 apples but promised to give John 7....
    So I owe him 3 apples?
    Yes we put that as - meaning negative then the number owed....
    It obvously got a lot more complicated lol but that's how they taught 7 year old me.

    • @Weedboi420
      @Weedboi420 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I read this whole story with the voice of the am I the genius narrator

  • @dogofwar6769
    @dogofwar6769 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Story 36: Yeah generally Wikipedia is a decent source for general topics. But if it's anything political it can be a real problem. As there have been notable examples of articles being changed to suit the admin politics. Up to and including asserting information that's been proven false or just deleted sourced that the admins consider too politically sensitive.

  • @FluuJFlug
    @FluuJFlug 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I remember the teacher saying different parts of your tongue taste different things. The teacher had up put things like candy, salts, lemons, etc on different parts of our tongue. I think I rememeber the other students chatting about how it worked. I never said anything but I could taste that dang lemon in every part of my mouth

  • @esecretlangel9130
    @esecretlangel9130 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    For the negative numbers, didn’t anyone use a calculator

  • @dannypipewrench533
    @dannypipewrench533 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    On the Vietnam War, the way I learned about the outcome for the first time was something like this:
    US (losing money): Are you done yet?
    North Vietnam (on fire, lacking infrastructure): NO!
    US (still losing money): Well, forget this. *Goes home to no danger.*
    North Vietnam (still on fire): I WIN!

  • @dtester
    @dtester 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Teachers of younger grades often don't know that much on their "bad" subjects and they rely on the teacher's handbook for answers. I think that would explain some of these stories.

  • @Arcticgreen
    @Arcticgreen 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I want to mesmerize my own 500,000 slices of pie... oh, wait, you were talking math.

  • @TellyKNetic
    @TellyKNetic 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Here's a couple (for reference, I was in elementary school in the late 90s):
    The American Civil War was fought over "states' rights."
    Colombus discovered America.
    Supply-side economics is a valid economic theory.
    You won't have a calculator in your pocket when you become an adult.

  • @IsYitzach
    @IsYitzach 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Story 22: The Americans don't like getting FOD (Foreign Object Debris) in their eyes either.
    Story 23: I remember that lesson in the first grade. I also found it to be bunk. Fortunately, it was never repeated.

  • @johnrigler8858
    @johnrigler8858 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Back on the 70s , I had a teacher in middle school who stated categorically that A,D, in dates stood for After Death!

  • @stischer47
    @stischer47 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    That when doing multiplication the larger number had to be on the top and the smaller number on the bottom, otherwise it couldn't be done. Disallowing that the size of the numbers (larger/smaller) has nothing to do with the value (greater/lesser), it wasn't until I was in high school that I realized that I had just proven the associative property of mathematics in the 3rd grade.

  • @animatediamond8944
    @animatediamond8944 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    We were doing spelling/literacy, I think it might have been in Yr 3 or 4, when I used the word 'disease' in the sentence 'A cold is a disease'. The teacher told me that it wasn't a disease, it was a virus, and I'm not sure why this correction was necessary as we were only doing spelling. Anyway, it wasn't until years later that I found out that the real definition of 'disease' didn't have anything to do with its cause.

  • @Emily-vp9xe
    @Emily-vp9xe 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Some of these make me go “The fuck were these teachers thinking” to “Yeah some facts get changed or proven false over the years.”

  • @lindageorge8209
    @lindageorge8209 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love that wooden pencils are going to spontaneously combust. In space!

  • @Benjamin1986980
    @Benjamin1986980 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The ideal gas law isn't bad. The full version just adds two rather difficult to calculate factors that I've repressed since Thermodynamics 2.
    Its like the Pythagorean theorem and the law of Cosines. The one is just a more complete and much more complex version of the other

  • @thekathrynwest
    @thekathrynwest 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Story 4- some of my kids at work struggle with the concept of math sometimes (like basic addition and subtraction) so I always use the example of money. For example: you have $12 in your bank account and you spend $20, how much money do you have? Another thing I do for algebra. 12x + 10y = 120. I then example that X are girls and Y are boys. The girls and boys can't talk to each other, so we can't have them hanging out together, so we got to move them to opposite sides and figure it out from there and only the numbers that have x or y can hangout with numbers that have x or y and can't hangout with another group or they break rules and get in trouble (at our job the boys and girls can't interact with each other). Sometimes you just gotta break it down in ways they understand and in things they know. It's not always about explaining it the way you're told to explain it, but explaining it in a way they'll understand. You have to often meet them where they're at with what they know.

  • @AlexDoesDev
    @AlexDoesDev 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Not at school but a educational show I use to watch.I thought green was a primary colour. I learnt it was intact not a primary colour about 2 months ago 💀💀

    • @jacksonhazeltine9291
      @jacksonhazeltine9291 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      There are two color systems: additive and subtractive.
      In the additive color system, where you add light together to form colors (like a computer screen), then red, GREEN, and blue are primary colors. This is where we get the term RGB from.
      In the subtractive color system, you use pigments or filters to remove light. The primary colors in this system are cyan, magenta, and yellow. This is what color printers use (at least home printers do). When these three pigments are used, you would expect black to be a result of complete mixture of these colors, but you would just get a dark gray mess, so black pigment is used as well. This black pigment is called a “key” pigment, so when you shop for printer ink, you will see these pigments as being labeled as CYMK.
      So green can be a primary color, it just depends on which color system you use.

    • @Gue5762Gue
      @Gue5762Gue 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@jacksonhazeltine9291totally agree!
      But... I think when they say a 'primary color', they're talking about early art class, where red yellow and blue are primary colors and you mix them to get the other colors.

  • @18videowatcher41
    @18videowatcher41 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    That Sherlock Holmes used deductive reasoning. This isn't true, he actually used inductive reasoning. I learned the difference in a Uni course yet was still marked wrong on a test when I answered that he used inductive reasoning. I think my professor was either an idiot or too caught up in the fact that Sherlock would always say "I deduce". I tried to appeal it and even explained to her why I was right, but she just shut me down and refused to change it. It wasn't as if it would have greatly altered my grade on the test or in the class, but it was the principle of the thing. I was pissed to say the least. 😠

  • @yarion4774
    @yarion4774 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    A lot of models in science that we learn in school are not accurate but they still have a merit. They are able to help people understand the basic dynamics and concepts. And if you go higher in your education you will learn more modern and accurate models that help with issues of higher fidelity.
    It's probably not the best idea to teach middle school students about quantum physics when they don't even know how a atom is constructed.

  • @StoryBird2
    @StoryBird2 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    More like what I WASN"T taught but my school in NC completely left out that NC was a part of the Confederate Army during the civil war, didn't learn that until I moved

  • @CatsOverBrats
    @CatsOverBrats 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    A teacher told us the earth was discovered to be round by some man sitting on the beach watching a ship sail in, and he could see it coming over the curve with only the top showing at first. I wish she would just have said that she didn't know how they figured out the shape of the earth. She was teaching Danish and English. It wasn't as if this was something she was supposed to know for our lessons.

  • @elizabethhanich2713
    @elizabethhanich2713 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Once, when I was in elementary school, one of my classmates literally said I didn’t have the right to speak, like, at all. At least, that’s if I remember correctly.

  • @christosdoesthings
    @christosdoesthings 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "Dinosaurs went extinct at the end of the mesozoic", biggest lie of my life.

  • @dellosayshello5405
    @dellosayshello5405 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    A lot of history that don’t take linguistic into account

  • @runawayrae1882
    @runawayrae1882 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I was cracking my knuckles when that story came up 💀💀

  • @CharlesGriswold
    @CharlesGriswold 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "You can't take the square root of a negative number." Of course you can. In fact, in electrical engineering, you _have_ to. The problem is that what you get is a two-dimensional number (on a number plane instead of a number line) and high school math teachers _really_ don't want to have to explain that to high school students. Not to mention the fact that doing math with such numbers is a real pain in the butt.

  • @danielpalecek4090
    @danielpalecek4090 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    european here. I am taught scientology in school, for example that an electron has 11 strands of dna and he's alive and smarter than us because he knows when we watch him. dna is a molecule with a lot of electrons, how can an electron have 11 strands of dna?

  • @magehand8533
    @magehand8533 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That the earths gravity is caused by its magnetic field and that’s why the moon has no gravity. He wasn’t taught to be a science teacher, but the school was short staffed so he taught the class anyways and yes, the moon does have gravity. This was eighth grade..

  • @henryjordan9453
    @henryjordan9453 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I was taught evolution as fact

    • @stischer47
      @stischer47 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      So, do you believe that Adam and Eve are fact?

    • @henryjordan9453
      @henryjordan9453 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@stischer47 obviously i do

  • @wightmamba8085
    @wightmamba8085 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The vikings or whatever Thorfinn and Lief Erikson landed in North America (Canada parts) long before Columbus and America itself is named after an Italian.

  • @magehand8533
    @magehand8533 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That gravity is caused by the earths magnetic field, and that’s why the moon has no gravity, I tried to dispute it, but he wouldn’t listen. He wasn’t trained to be a science teacher, but he taught the class anyways, because the school was short staffed and by the way, the moon does have gravity. this was eighth grade.

  • @CharlesGriswold
    @CharlesGriswold 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    English has a hard, fast rule to never split an infinitive. (Which I just did.) Honestly, most of these stupid "rules" of the English language were invented by a French man who, I am convinced, was jealous that the English language could do things that the French language can't.

  • @Joel-nu1ed
    @Joel-nu1ed 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    3:10 burning up the way I can lie the world up for just one day kick that see you then. What are you gonna say no, I’m gonna be just like me anyway.

  • @mrmister9885
    @mrmister9885 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    What is the game in the background?

  • @lahlybird895
    @lahlybird895 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You should not use the oxford comma

  • @JenniferLeeTacy
    @JenniferLeeTacy 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    my favorite was that Christopher Columbus is a hero and discovered America. No he didn't and he wasn't

  • @GrifoStelle
    @GrifoStelle 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Columbus discovered America

  • @WhiteoutMonster
    @WhiteoutMonster 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My mom has bone cancer in her back 😂

  • @lindageorge8209
    @lindageorge8209 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I hate the bit about being taught wrong in junior school. What happens when you don't keep doing science? How does this effect the world? Ignorant people are running out country! Btw, pi is 23/7...too easy.

  • @dellosayshello5405
    @dellosayshello5405 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Since this is Reddit a lot of this stories seem conviently true

  • @S_N_O_W_U_Y
    @S_N_O_W_U_Y 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    what game is in the background

  • @mochanutpayne8396
    @mochanutpayne8396 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    i have learned the thanksgiving story they teach in grade school in america is a lie

  • @shastaham7630
    @shastaham7630 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The word is prEposition, not proposition.

  • @oldwoman5942
    @oldwoman5942 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That babies are attached to the mother’s navel…I knew it was wrong.

  • @radfordra
    @radfordra 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The sun is half star half planet?

  • @jacksmith-millichamp
    @jacksmith-millichamp 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What's the game being played?

  • @Eli-rb4kq
    @Eli-rb4kq 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    But its in catching fire so it must be true

  • @xanderkane9202
    @xanderkane9202 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Somethink is not a word, please stop saying it!

  • @kavinaderrow3269
    @kavinaderrow3269 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "Christopher Columbus discovered America."
    Uh, actually, he was nowhere near the continental US.

    • @blueroux4776
      @blueroux4776 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      He was about as close as you could get. The Bahamas are right by Florida

    • @kavinaderrow3269
      @kavinaderrow3269 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@blueroux4776 Oops, looks like I was wrong. 😋 I thought he was closer to central/south America.

    • @SmashFinale
      @SmashFinale 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hey, he was near an America so you were at least right about that

  • @robinkelly1770
    @robinkelly1770 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Rè the blood colour. Look at the veins in your wrists. That blue colour is NOT a tattoo. When deoxygenated blood appears blue in colour (even though it contains haemoglobin which is constituted mainly of iron. Iron appears red WHEN oxygenated. Dude you were wrong in school and are wrong now...