Probably something like: "Trust me, this will be useful to you later in life."

My GCSE biology teacher taught us that "anything that you out in the body that isn't food is a drug". So water, air, chewing gum and wax crayons are all drugs :P

Drugs education, pure and simple.

I had a teacher who kept a chair empty for Jesus.

My history teacher telling me it was criminal to buy stock then sell it.

I'm assuming that's what you do with stock, hell some people make a living out of buying and selling at the right times.

EliteFreq:
I once had a supply teacher for an RE(Religious Education) lesson who was trying to explain the importance of Asia, she told us that all religion comes from there and that it's the centre of the Universe. I'm not even kidding...

This is pretty true they are the most advanced country in the world look at anything you have chances are china invented it.

A middle school Foods teacher once told me that you don't need much education to be a programmer. She compared it to being a cashier.

Then I grew up and found out that programming is almost entirely math. In fact, it's one of the few things that advanced math is good for. I'd be hard-pressed to believe that you could pluck someone from McDonald's, put them in front of a computer, and have them write a physics engine, but hey.

She was a pretty technologically inept person though (she was around 60 years old I believe), so I guess I can see where the ignorance comes from.

We have this really weird English teacher. We sere studying poems for our exams and one of them happened to be about slavery. Our English Teacher then began to give us her potted history of Slavery, despite the fact the class were aged about 16 and had heard it all hundreds of times before. According to her, after slaves were captured in Africa they were then forced into boats and chained to oars and then had to row all the way to America. During the voyage they were then (supposedly) forced to Limbo Dance for the entertainment of the crew. Our teacher had clearly got her time periods and common sense mixed up.

This story was not helped by the fact that we were simltaeously studying slavery and its aftermath in both History and RE!

Just Joe:
Almost all history classes before college give the impression of history as one big logical progression, from the unhappy and unfair past to the completely and utterly perfect present. The suggest that the victories of the current ideas about morality and economy--basically, "Everyone's equal" and "Capitalism wins"--were inevitable, and will last forever. It's as though the textbook writers see the whole thing as a big story, and they decided to remove all tension, moral ambiguity, and give the whole thing a nice big happy ending.

Not that I'm bitter, or anything.

My history teacher in High school was very good about that, i found her very informative. She was always explaining the other side to every topic and encouraged discussion and debate about controversial issues, she was awesome.

The top 3 would probably be;

"The Founding Fathers were devout Christians and wanted to create a Christian nation"

"The civil war was about slavery"

"Lemmings throw themselves off cliffs"

Lets just say that both collage & the History Channel shit on everything I was taugh in highschool American History.

Year 6 i was told that the Miracle of Dunkirk was D-Day. Stupid teacher!

I got the gist that Ares was the god of war, but he represented the brutality and barbarity of it. He wasn't a god you directly worshiped (except truly war obessed people like Spartans), he was one you feared.

Athena being patron of Athens, the big city for Greek enlightment was the goddess of wisdom, but she was a warrior goddess representing the disciplined nature of war, tactics etc.

That evolution (they did not say macro evolution or micro evolution) is a massive fraud because the bible is history, or His Story, as they put it, so it must be literally true.

That when a female loses her virginity, she bleeds (I knew this isn't always the case) and it's a representation of a covenant between husband and wife, or something.

That the bible it true because it says it is.

That Atheism was Charles Darwins fault.

Two related ones;

A) Atoms are the smallest particles you can get (proven wrong by B)

B) the electrons in an atom revolve around the nucleus in cirlces.

when infact electrons can go anyway at any length as long as they are inside their zones.. which usually arn't circles!

captainwillies:

BlueMage:

captainwillies:

LooK iTz Jinjo:

captainwillies:

Athena was the Greek goddess of war/victory. WRONG she was the goddess of wisdom. what makes it even worse is the teacher was greek :(

Actually she was both :P (Yeah my mums Greek and taught yr12 Classics for 10 years) Athena was the Goddess of War and Victory as well as being the Goddess of Wisdom, you were both right :).

yeah. so? were did she get that info from? western history books often get things wrong. Besides Athena can't be the goddess of victory because "Nike" was the Greek goddess of victory/triumph look it up

No, Nike was the personification of victory. Calling Nike a goddess would be a stretch. Although feminine in aspect, she didn't have the powers normally attributed to the Olympians.

Yes, I fancy myself an amateur classical greek mythology scholar.

hmmmm i feel that there may be a loss of communication because of semantics somewhere in these posts/replies. Very well! may i request some sources and references on this knowledge.

No, you can't :( the particular book was a gift from my dear sister when I was 9 years old. It .... has not survived the rigours of being read and re-read so often. Robert Graves was one of the primary contributors and editors, however.

quite a bit of science i learnt at GCSE level turned out to be dumbed down to the point that it wasn't actaully true. I can't remember specifics apart from that some of it was about light and gravity, but i remember starting Physics AS and think "But we were told differently in GCSEE"

My government teacher in HS said that "if it's not Republican, it's just Communism"

Also, I always saw teachers teaching that the platypus is the only egg laying mammal. This is untrue, the echidna lays eggs and there's at least 4 different species of them.

Basically my English teachers just an idiot. Everything she teaches us is either read straight from a book, or just plain wrong.

My English teacher liked to tell us that 2 + 2 = 5.

A half cookie for an easy reference.

BlueMage:

No, you can't :( the particular book was a gift from my dear sister when I was 9 years old. It .... has not survived the rigours of being read and re-read so often. Robert Graves was one of the primary contributors and editors, however.

what was the book called? The Greek Myths? Greek Gods and Heroes?

EDIT: HOLY CRAP HE HELPED TRANSLATE "The Rubaiyyat of Omar Khayyam"!!!!! O_0 *stunned*
probably means nothing to you but that just blew my mind.

Sark:
My English teacher liked to tell us that 2 + 2 = 5.

A half cookie for an easy reference.

radio head?

One of the few things my high school taught me was that I had to go on to university and get a degree, just because I was good academically.

Bollocks! They were just a bunch of elitist snobs who measured success with grades and didn't care about students, they just wanted to look impressive!

In case anyone didn't notice, I don't like that school very much...

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.

Hahaha win.

The civil war started to free the slaves, is my number one beef with my grade school teachers also
them still saying Columbus was the first to discover the new world is BS

In year 7 or 8, A science teacher or a Substitute for Science was teaching us about the rotation of Earth and it's orbit. She started saying that we can't feel the Earth turning because it spins so slowly. I think that considering the Earth's rotational speed at the point where I live is around 900mph or 1500km/h it is safe to say the teacher was wrong. How I wish I knew then what I know now.

just recently my Honors History teacher who i have tremendous respect for, said something along the lines of at the time of the Revolutionary war America was the only republic in the world.

Not true.

Not counting the Athenian or Roman republics there was Venice, San Marino, and the Netherlands

Everything i was taught about WWII in school was a lie.I have read over 30 books on WWII so i think i should know that D-Day happened in France.We'll everyone should know but.But our teacher said that it happened in Spain.

I couldn't walk out of that classroom faster after he said that.

I don't know if this is a lie but when we were learning about cave people and their process ofcutting a hole in the head to cure ilness the teacher said it was called Trephining. Then another teacher called it Trepanning. Wut?

skyfire_freckles:
I was spinning a globe during free time in second grade, looking at all the continents, when I suddenly realized that Africa and South America would fit together almost perfectly. It made me think about what my dad had said about earthquakes, so I went to my teacher and explained my theory: that once upon a time, the continents had all been together once, but earthquakes had broken them apart over time.

She said, "No, of course not," like it was ridiculous. Then she went on to say that the world had always been just the way it was, and would never change.

What the hell?

Wasn't that called Pangea? The universal continent?

It is a common hypothesis of the tectonic shifting.

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OT:
about.... half the stuff in my health class (AKA drugs and sex class)

They were so busy trying to scare us into compliance they failed to consider the damage caused by children learning that teachers, schools, and education mechanisms in general, were subject to outside influence, that they did not have compunction against lying to us, and that they were no longer trustworthy.

*sigh*

I miss my naive sense of bliss.

This pissed me off, but in RE (religious education), i was reading a book and i noticed that it said the "Little boy" nuclear bomb dropped during world war 2 was the size of a cricket ball. Then my teacher quoted it word for word while talking about war. I loved this teacher she was awesome but i had to challenge her so i spoke up "google it, the thing was huge and they had to climb into the back of it to arm it. You cant climb into a cricket ball!"

Global Warming...

scareBro:
My government teacher in HS said that "if it's not Republican, it's just Communism".

HAHA nice, i had a government teach fail me for being to conservitive, she literly gave me a zero for the quarter because i said government should be smaller not bigger

I cant remember what but my 6th grade history teacher tried to teach us something about communism in the ancient world

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

He's not?