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

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Am I the Genius?

Am I the Genius?

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@amithegenius
@amithegenius Жыл бұрын
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@JooseyLoosey
@JooseyLoosey 10 ай бұрын
what game?
@RyeRye9254
@RyeRye9254 Жыл бұрын
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 6 ай бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
My class was also told we had no rights, that immediately started a school wide protest lol
@nvdawahyaify
@nvdawahyaify Жыл бұрын
The tin whistle would actually be a better instrument for teaching children, than the recorder. The fingering is more straightforward and intuitive.
@ruairi9109
@ruairi9109 Жыл бұрын
Most countries I know actually used tin whistle
@dogofwar6769
@dogofwar6769 Жыл бұрын
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.
@dannypipewrench533
@dannypipewrench533 Жыл бұрын
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!
@FluuJFlug
@FluuJFlug Жыл бұрын
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
@Dreamspawn1978
@Dreamspawn1978 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
I read this whole story with the voice of the am I the genius narrator
@esecretlangel9130
@esecretlangel9130 10 ай бұрын
For the negative numbers, didn’t anyone use a calculator
@Arcticgreen
@Arcticgreen Жыл бұрын
I want to mesmerize my own 500,000 slices of pie... oh, wait, you were talking math.
@IsYitzach
@IsYitzach Жыл бұрын
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.
@dtester
@dtester Жыл бұрын
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.
@TellyKNetic
@TellyKNetic Жыл бұрын
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.
@johnrigler8858
@johnrigler8858 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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.
@lindageorge8209
@lindageorge8209 Жыл бұрын
I love that wooden pencils are going to spontaneously combust. In space!
@Emily-vp9xe
@Emily-vp9xe 6 ай бұрын
Some of these make me go “The fuck were these teachers thinking” to “Yeah some facts get changed or proven false over the years.”
@Benjamin1986980
@Benjamin1986980 11 ай бұрын
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
@animatediamond8944
@animatediamond8944 Жыл бұрын
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.
@thekathrynwest
@thekathrynwest 4 ай бұрын
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.
@christosdoesthings
@christosdoesthings Жыл бұрын
"Dinosaurs went extinct at the end of the mesozoic", biggest lie of my life.
@yarion4774
@yarion4774 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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.
@runawayrae1882
@runawayrae1882 6 ай бұрын
I was cracking my knuckles when that story came up 💀💀
@dellosayshello5405
@dellosayshello5405 Жыл бұрын
A lot of history that don’t take linguistic into account
@18videowatcher41
@18videowatcher41 Жыл бұрын
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. 😠
@elizabethhanich2713
@elizabethhanich2713 11 ай бұрын
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.
@CharlesGriswold
@CharlesGriswold 10 ай бұрын
"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.
@mrmister9885
@mrmister9885 Жыл бұрын
What is the game in the background?
@AlexDoesDev
@AlexDoesDev Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
​@@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.
@danielpalecek4090
@danielpalecek4090 11 ай бұрын
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 11 ай бұрын
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..
@Joel-nu1ed
@Joel-nu1ed 6 ай бұрын
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.
@henryjordan9453
@henryjordan9453 Жыл бұрын
I was taught evolution as fact
@stischer47
@stischer47 Жыл бұрын
So, do you believe that Adam and Eve are fact?
@henryjordan9453
@henryjordan9453 Жыл бұрын
@@stischer47 obviously i do
@wightmamba8085
@wightmamba8085 Жыл бұрын
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 11 ай бұрын
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.
@JenniferLeeTacy
@JenniferLeeTacy 6 ай бұрын
my favorite was that Christopher Columbus is a hero and discovered America. No he didn't and he wasn't
@S_N_O_W_U_Y
@S_N_O_W_U_Y Жыл бұрын
what game is in the background
@CharlesGriswold
@CharlesGriswold 10 ай бұрын
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.
@GrifoStelle
@GrifoStelle Жыл бұрын
Columbus discovered America
@WhiteoutMonster
@WhiteoutMonster Жыл бұрын
My mom has bone cancer in her back 😂
@lahlybird895
@lahlybird895 Жыл бұрын
You should not use the oxford comma
@oldwoman5942
@oldwoman5942 11 ай бұрын
That babies are attached to the mother’s navel…I knew it was wrong.
@lindageorge8209
@lindageorge8209 Жыл бұрын
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.
@jacksmith-millichamp
@jacksmith-millichamp Жыл бұрын
What's the game being played?
@dellosayshello5405
@dellosayshello5405 Жыл бұрын
Since this is Reddit a lot of this stories seem conviently true
@mochanutpayne8396
@mochanutpayne8396 Жыл бұрын
i have learned the thanksgiving story they teach in grade school in america is a lie
@shastaham7630
@shastaham7630 6 ай бұрын
The word is prEposition, not proposition.
@radfordra
@radfordra Жыл бұрын
The sun is half star half planet?
@Eli-rb4kq
@Eli-rb4kq Жыл бұрын
But its in catching fire so it must be true
@xanderkane9202
@xanderkane9202 Жыл бұрын
Somethink is not a word, please stop saying it!
@robinkelly1770
@robinkelly1770 Жыл бұрын
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...
@kavinaderrow3269
@kavinaderrow3269 Жыл бұрын
"Christopher Columbus discovered America." Uh, actually, he was nowhere near the continental US.
@blueroux4776
@blueroux4776 Жыл бұрын
He was about as close as you could get. The Bahamas are right by Florida
@kavinaderrow3269
@kavinaderrow3269 Жыл бұрын
@@blueroux4776 Oops, looks like I was wrong. 😋 I thought he was closer to central/south America.
@SmashFinale
@SmashFinale Жыл бұрын
Hey, he was near an America so you were at least right about that
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