In a business studies lecture on Boom, and Bust. That modern economic controls means that major recessions are a thing of the past. This was about 3 years ago.

chstens:

Quick Ben:

Well, Norway at least is currently led by a coalition made up of the Workers Party, Socialist Left-Party, and the Centrist Party... That should count as Socialist...

Eh... It's socialist on paper, but I wouldn't really call Norway a socialist country

Yea you're right there. I wouldn't really call Norway a socialist country either. But you got to keep in mind that lots of the more right leaning in the world (especially in America,) would call even parts of the Norwegian right-side socialist. So it really depends on the viewpoint. I was thinking more of the general tendencies in international politics which have been leaning towards the right for quite a long time now. So in comparison, Socialist, stand-alone, no.

Julianking93:
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We've all had them before, when was a time where you were taught something in school and the teacher said it with the upmost sincerity and confidence, yet you either instantly knew it wasn't true or you later found out it wasn't true?

For me, it's a tie between when my 1st grade teacher told me the Sun rotates and revolves around the planets simultaneously with everything else, (I instantly called her out on that and I was 6.) and when my 8th grade American History teacher told the class that the founding fathers of America wanted it to be a strictly Christian nation. (once again, I instantly called him out on it and even quoted Benjamin Franklin when he said this would be a much better nation without religion.)

I've actually seen this thread before, but I won't call search bar on it because the last one I saw was in June... and it wasn't exactly the same (same idea, but not restricted to school... like, it included what urban legends you thought were true but found out they weren't). Just funny how you can search it and there's almost ALWAYS another thread like it somewhere.

Anywho, one of my super conservative teachers taught me that CE and BCE meant, "Christian Error and Before Christian Error". It doesn't. It means Christian Era and Before Christian Era. One could argue that it's still "wrong" they took out AD, or year of our Lord, but even then, it's not the same as saying "Christian Error".

I was also taught that America went to war with Spain in the Spanish-American War solely for Imperialist reasons. Although there's no doubt that played a role, to say that was the only reason is STUPID.

"You can be anything you wanna be."
Lying bitch.

Mimsofthedawg:

Julianking93:
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We've all had them before, when was a time where you were taught something in school and the teacher said it with the upmost sincerity and confidence, yet you either instantly knew it wasn't true or you later found out it wasn't true?

For me, it's a tie between when my 1st grade teacher told me the Sun rotates and revolves around the planets simultaneously with everything else, (I instantly called her out on that and I was 6.) and when my 8th grade American History teacher told the class that the founding fathers of America wanted it to be a strictly Christian nation. (once again, I instantly called him out on it and even quoted Benjamin Franklin when he said this would be a much better nation without religion.)

I've actually seen this thread before, but I won't call search bar on it because the last one I saw was in June... and it wasn't exactly the same (same idea, but not restricted to school... like, it included what urban legends you thought were true but found out they weren't). Just funny how you can search it and there's almost ALWAYS another thread like it somewhere.

Anywho, one of my super conservative teachers taught me that CE and BCE meant, "Christian Error and Before Christian Error". It doesn't. It means Christian Era and Before Christian Era. One could argue that it's still "wrong" they took out AD, or year of our Lord, but even then, it's not the same as saying "Christian Error".

I was also taught that America went to war with Spain in the Spanish-American War solely for Imperialist reasons. Although there's no doubt that played a role, to say that was the only reason is STUPID.

You are both wrong actually, CE stands for Common Era, and BCE stands for Before Common Area, why would a term created to be a more scientific and easier approach have anything to do with Christianity?

Who is 2 Griffin?

we had a re lesson onece where we were ment to be learning about what happens in a wedding but instead he told us that other cutures can have multiple husbands and wive and babbled on about it for the whole hour lesson he also asked my friend (who is male) if he wanted four husband then when he said no he said "Oh so one husband will be enough for you then"

On what grounds are all people not equal? Are we not capable of the same things, or are we not all of the same value?

coxafloppin:
Money isnt everything.

It seriously is, its the only reason people do anything.

Money is a necessary evil in a trade/barter society (which most in the FREE world would argue is the only just form of government). However, it is far from the only reason anyone does anything.

Ask anyone returning from Iraq and Afghanistan if they were there to strike it rich. Ask Ron Jeremy if he only does it for the cash. Resurrect Gandhi and MLK and ask if their motivations included greed.

I just entered a field of medicine where there is a lot of money to be made. By my third year, I may be making six figures. While most of the people I know in this field are pretty happy, there are plenty who are constantly chasing ways to make more, more, more. And these people are very unhappy. They thought by the 10-year mark that they'd be making a lot more money, and they never really loved the work even though they had a talent for it. They thought they would pay their dues, then "get real paid," then they would have happiness.

Very very rich people become drug addicts, sex predators and murderers, just like the poor and the ever-shrinking middle class. Middle aged white men commit suicide at a higher rate than teenaged girls, and this is the wealthiest segment of the populace.

So say it with me now...

"Money is ev-"

No, no, no,

"The love of money is the root of all evil."

Other reasons people do things... love, sex, approval, the love-sex-approval of a beautiful woman, duty (sometimes misplaced), power, revenge, anger, mental illness, desperation, empathy, and progress.

The King of Rock and Roll:

OT: I once was recently told that Swine Flu (H1N1) was more dangerous than the regular flu.

It is. H1N1 has killed more infants so far this season than the flu normally kills the entire season.

Draco Kaiser:

UltraParanoia:
I was taught that everyone is equal.

What a load of horseshit that turned out to be. My boobs aren't anywhere near as awesome as the ones on the wimmenfolk.

Well everyone is equal in their rights. Well at least in America that's true.

Not homosexuals. And not teenaged girls who've been raped by their fathers (depending upon the state).

IcemanFreeze:

You are both wrong actually, CE stands for Common Era, and BCE stands for Before Common Area, why would a term created to be a more scientific and easier approach have anything to do with Christianity?

CE stands for Christian Era or Common Era. It's interchangable. As for your question "Why would a term created to be a more scientific and easier approach have anything to do with Christianity?", both the old "AD/BC" and "CE/BCE" are based around the estimated time Jesus was born. IE ~ regardless of what you think, they all have to do with Christianity in some way. It's called "Common Era" because it is now the generally accepted way to tell time around the world. This, however, was established by Christians, thus, "Christian Era" works too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCE

http://europeanhistory.about.com/od/referenceencyclopedia/g/glce.htm

http://www.knowledgerush.com/kr/encyclopedia/Common_Era/

Regardless, the real point was that it wasn't used as a negative rebuttal against Christians. That is true.

funguy2121:

The King of Rock and Roll:

OT: I once was recently told that Swine Flu (H1N1) was more dangerous than the regular flu.

It is. H1N1 has killed more infants so far this season than the flu normally kills the entire season.

Swine flu's weird. I'm in the last days of my infection with the pandemic, and I had a fever for two days. And to be honest, all I had was a slight cough (maybe 4-5 coughs in an hour) and a headache. I just slept. Last year I was sick with the regular flu and was our for almost two weeks, and I didn't work out for a month (couldn't breathe, complicated my asthma). Scientifically, I know what it's so harsh (especially on infants, with their weak immune system and all), but really, this is the dumbest pandemic to ever show up on the planet (he says as the swine flu mutates and begins turning people in zombies...).

thenumberthirteen:
In a business studies lecture on Boom, and Bust. That modern economic controls means that major recessions are a thing of the past. This was about 3 years ago.

If people didn't lie, cheat, or steal their way into success, this would be true. Instead, we'd only have minor recessions (fluctuations in demand/supply). But because people are stupid, our economy is full of crap. The worst part is, I don't really believe there's an economic system that could ever stop some sort of recession-type thing from occuring. If it's capitalism, you have recessions. If it's communism, you have corrupt bastards taking money from everyone else. People just suck. That's the problem.

Mimsofthedawg:

thenumberthirteen:
In a business studies lecture on Boom, and Bust. That modern economic controls means that major recessions are a thing of the past. This was about 3 years ago.

If people didn't lie, cheat, or steal their way into success, this would be true. Instead, we'd only have minor recessions (fluctuations in demand/supply). But because people are stupid, our economy is full of crap. The worst part is, I don't really believe there's an economic system that could ever stop some sort of recession-type thing from occuring. If it's capitalism, you have recessions. If it's communism, you have corrupt bastards taking money from everyone else. People just suck. That's the problem.

There are but they all only exist as computer models and I don't recall the names of any of them from when I took socioeconomics because they had designations not 'name names'. The problem with them is that you need a society like that in A Brave New World to make them work because too many people would lose their jobs and wealth under these systems to start using them now without having to round up people and kill them.

thenumberthirteen:
In a business studies lecture on Boom, and Bust. That modern economic controls means that major recessions are a thing of the past. This was about 3 years ago.

Well, the funny thing is, three years ago we were busy dismantling those "modern economic controls"...

funguy2121:

Draco Kaiser:

UltraParanoia:
I was taught that everyone is equal.

What a load of horseshit that turned out to be. My boobs aren't anywhere near as awesome as the ones on the wimmenfolk.

Well everyone is equal in their rights. Well at least in America that's true.

Not homosexuals. And not teenaged girls who've been raped by their fathers (depending upon the state).

The rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Someone can take your life away, but they don't have the right to.

You know the mathematical symbols, < and >?
Well they taught us the opposite meanings in primary school!

aruseusx:

SirBryghtside:
That Germans started World War One.

The Germans didn't start the war, they just got the blame because they lost it.

Also, I'm not sure if this is related to education, as I don't remember a teacher telling me, but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't come to the conclusion that being gay was illegal, and keep it for 12 years on my own.

My WW1 history isn't that good but I'm pretty sure it was Austro-Hungary started it when Serbia (I think) woundn't released their independance from them.

My RE class when all the teacher would do was give us half an hour discussion about life in general.

Mind you at least the textbook we used could take a few shots at itself. Example: Just because they were the pope doesn't mean they are perfect human beings, even Jesus sinned on one occasion and Peter fled because of fear.

I just learned this a month ago. Essentialy, Russia had an aliance with Serbia, and Austria-hungary was attempting to annex Serbia. The Arch Duke Franz Ferdinan, heir to the Austrian throne, visited Serbia. He was assassinated by some Serbian ultra-nationalists. Austria declared war on Serbia, Russia declared war on Austria, germany backed up Austria by declaring on Russia...you get the point.

somelameshite:
The young of a cow is called a lamb.

I'm serious. My Science teacher actually thought that a baby cow is called a lamb. Its called a CALF!

Guess what, when the exams came round and this question came out, everyone who put "lamb" as the answer got it wrong. And she argued with the examiners that a lamb was indeed a baby cow, even after being presented with the answers and evidence.

I thought it was called food.

OT: Our history teacher tried to tell us that the battle of Marathon was AFTER the battle of Thermopylae.

When I learned AD means after death......... -_- I didn't want to say anything though

Cheeze_Pavilion:

Berethond:

Haseo21:
hahahaha! Who the hell taught you?! The war of 1812 was between America and Britain, Canada just fought on Britains side.

I am still out of breath from laughing so hard because you said that. LOL :D

Canada was part of Britain...

There basically was no such thing as Canada in 1812--there was Upper and Lower Canada. It's the War of 1812 that put 'Canadians' on the road to becoming Canada.

Ygfi:
also, about the whole 1812 thing, americans, listen up. there is this thing called the commonwelth. australia, canada, new zealand and lots of other countries were all part of the brittish empire. you were fighting the commonwelth,

The Commonwealth would not exist for another 100 years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Nations#Origins
http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php?title=Imperial_and_Commonwealth_Conferences

He is right, However, If Britain won the war of 1812, The US would be under British rule and have would have lost their independence. America won

Zaksav91:
When I learned AD means after death......... -_- I didn't want to say anything though

It doesn't? AD means Anno Domini, In the Year of Our Lord.

Cakes:

Zaksav91:
When I learned AD means after death......... -_- I didn't want to say anything though

It doesn't? AD means Anno Domini, In the Year of Our Lord.

Exactly, if AD meant after the death of Jesus then the 33 years that he lived wouldn't have counted for anything. I said thats what my teacher told me it meant (after death) and I didn't say anything (i knew it meant anno domini already)

Well, most of what I've noticed has come from history/political studies, being that that is the only subject I only truly care for, and what isn't a blatant lie is an omission. A few things I knew before I heard of lies my teacher told me.

America had a huge eugenics program, for those who do not know, eugenics is essentially the concept of selective breeding applied to human beings. American governments (some of these were state governments) actually had about 30,000 or so people forcibly sterilized to prevent them from passing on their genes. Its most... famous practitioners were the Nazis, the science of eugenics was discredited when evidence of what exactly the Nazis had been up to was uncovered.

The story of Washington and the Cherry Tree was made up, yes I know that most people know that, but I was taught that was fact when I was a kid.

The French and Indian War was started by George Washington.

The Emancipation Proclamation only freed slaves in Confederate territories, and Lincoln wasn't so much about immediately destroying slavery so much as containing it, which was a popular abolitionist viewpoint at the time, and to be fair, immediate abolition could really have screwed up the economy.

Martin Luther got really anti-semitic when he got older.

Thomas More, the so-called hero who stood up to King Henry VIII when Henry wanted to divorce Katherine of Eragon advocated the execution of heretics.

(300 has a lot to do with this) The Spartans kept slaves and had sexual intercourse with children, the Persians had the first ever declaration of human rights and were one of the most socially advanced civilizations of their time, talk about getting the sides wrong.

(kind of an easy one) Pirates were far from the romanticized versions we see today, they were bloodthirsty rapists who sought plunder and conquest of a different sort.

(in response to the belief that the Middle East has always been some mudhole of terrorism and oil) The Middle East was a huge foundation for Western medical systems, and many things that the Middle Easterners invented, such as algebra, laid the foundation for the rise of Europe and revolutions in science.

Joan of Arc was a violent fanatic.

The American colonists paid less in taxes than people in Britain, but still rebelled over it.

FDR was afraid for his reputation if word got out that he had polio, he went to great lengths to hide said polio, however, disability rights groups insisted that a statue of him was made with him in his wheelchair.

Benjamin Franklin, oh my dear God Benjamin Franklin. Cracked tells me that the kite experiment never happened, the experiment as it is shown is just a fancy way to kill yourself. Franklin also had a mad fetish for absolutely anything with breasts and died at age 82 from syphilis that he contracted from a French prostitute.

A lot of education on Nazi Germany and other places of that nature loves to gloss over the good things they did and focus on the bad, I consider that to be unreasonable, if they did nothing but eat babies and kill ethnic minorities, then how did they ever come to power?

America was actually one of the last nations to abolish slavery, France and Britain really lead the way in terms of abolition, Britain even went so far as to track down slave-trading ships and set the captives free.

Mentioned already on the thread but... Woodrow Wilson endorsed slavery, hated black suffrage, and once referred to the Ku Klux Klan as "a veritable empire of the South to protect the Southern economy".

It wasn't until 1776 that the American Revolution became about independence, that's right, at Bunker Hill, the colonists were still fighting for their rights as Englishmen.

funguy2121:

The King of Rock and Roll:

OT: I once was recently told that Swine Flu (H1N1) was more dangerous than the regular flu.

It is. H1N1 has killed more infants so far this season than the flu normally kills the entire season.

No it's not the regular flu kills 36,000 Americans now that's just Americans it kills between 250,000 and 500,000 worldwide annually, the swine flu since it was announced has killed less that 5000 all victims of the swine flu where on there death beds already the elderly the infirm and newborn children born with health problems.

Worgen:
my middle school science teacher saying that science said bees couldnt fly then following it up with a story about a couple enginers out for drinks and doing some calculations before they discovered that bees shouldnt be able to fly. First off that was an old story going around in the 60s and in all likelyhood is false, and 2nd since when did 2 engineers who know nothing about insects ever constitute the scientific community. And whats worse is this story shows how ignorent that alot of ppl can be of science, since science moves on. So even if the story was true, alot has changed since the 60s. Oh and yes I am too lazy to spell check etc etc.

Partially true actually bee's wings on there own cant generate enough down force to lift them off the ground instead what they do is beat there wings at different times which actually creates a vortex beneath them which allows them t fly...sort of.

GoldenCondor:
I can't wait for someone saying they regretted going to a Catholic School.

Our music teacher had us sing about Jolly Ol' Saint Nick... THEY LIED! HE'S NOT REAL!

he was a real person, just not santa claus

funguy2121:

The King of Rock and Roll:

OT: I once was recently told that Swine Flu (H1N1) was more dangerous than the regular flu.

It is. H1N1 has killed more infants so far this season than the flu normally kills the entire season.

While that is true... the seasonal flu (Influenza A) is all strain H1N1.

Zaksav91:
Exactly, if AD meant after the death of Jesus then the 33 years that he lived wouldn't have counted for anything. I said thats what my teacher told me it meant (after death) and I didn't say anything (i knew it meant anno domini already)

Whoever thought "Oh, that must mean after-death!" should be shot. That definition has spread like wildfire. That's what my parents taught me it meant as well.

darkless:

Worgen:
my middle school science teacher saying that science said bees couldnt fly then following it up with a story about a couple enginers out for drinks and doing some calculations before they discovered that bees shouldnt be able to fly. First off that was an old story going around in the 60s and in all likelyhood is false, and 2nd since when did 2 engineers who know nothing about insects ever constitute the scientific community. And whats worse is this story shows how ignorent that alot of ppl can be of science, since science moves on. So even if the story was true, alot has changed since the 60s. Oh and yes I am too lazy to spell check etc etc.

Partially true actually bee's wings on there own cant generate enough down force to lift them off the ground instead what they do is beat there wings at different times which actually creates a vortex beneath them which allows them t fly...sort of.

except for the fact that, that shows that science knows how they fly and has for years, I went to middle school in the late 90s so they probably figured it out by then

stinkychops:

AndyMcNoob:
My Physics teacher told us global warming was real.
but to be fair after the lesson he said it was a load of crap and proved it to us.
its juts he had to teach it to us so we could pass the exams.
Can any one figre that out what is the poaint in teaching false things that the teachers disagree with

Well my friend; he has broken the law. If he can prove something is false he is commiting a crime teaching it.

fair dooes, i didnt know that
its just ashame nothing can be done about it since the govermant sets the teaching criteria

i assume you're going to a religious school. in which case it's sort of expected. most private schools have religious affiliations.

if it's a public school then it's illegal and just tell him that.

AndyMcNoob:

My Physics teacher told us global warming was real.
but to be fair after the lesson he said it was a load of crap and proved it to us.
its juts he had to teach it to us so we could pass the exams.
Can any one figre that out what is the poaint in teaching false things that the teachers disagree with

your physics teacher sounds like a blowhard.
how exactly did he"prove" it was "a load of crap", when the best minds in the world working on the problem stil havent been able to fully grasp it's feedback.
(note: if you say mars is warming im going to reach out through the internet and smack you

the best scientists in the world agree it's happening & has strong anthropogenic roots.
http://www.realclimate.org/

http://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-on-mars.htm
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2005/10/global-warming-on-mars/

AndyMcNoob:

stinkychops:

AndyMcNoob:
My Physics teacher told us global warming was real.
but to be fair after the lesson he said it was a load of crap and proved it to us.
its juts he had to teach it to us so we could pass the exams.
Can any one figre that out what is the poaint in teaching false things that the teachers disagree with

Well my friend; he has broken the law. If he can prove something is false he is commiting a crime teaching it.

fair dooes, i didnt know that
its just ashame nothing can be done about it since the govermant sets the teaching criteria

Yeah I would assume its because Global Warming actually has evidence to go with it, You can prove any hypothesis if you try for long enough.