32 Hilariously Incorrect Things People Were Taught in School

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32 Hilariously Incorrect Things People Were Taught in School
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When you’re young, you think that your teachers are the smartest people in the world. Then you get older, observe the American education system with a seasoned eye, and realize that’s absolutely not a requirement for the profession. Sure, they’re working a thankless job, but you would generally prefer your geography teacher know all the states.

Redditors have shared some of the greatest failures in instruction that they received during their schooling. They may not have been intentional, but they definitely weren’t aiding anyone’s developing intellect. 

Read on to find out if there’s anything you’ve unknowingly been wrong about since fifth grade.

Durzo_Galt . 7y ago If a bug was in an airplane it would not be able to fly forward because it could not fly faster than the plane was moving...
Raven_of_Blades . 7y ago Computer teacher told us if you use cut on an image on a website that it will be removed from the website and will upset the website maker, so be sure to use copy.
Cla22ic . 7y ago Sodomize instead of cauterize the wound.
MysteryRelevant 7y ago My college sociology teacher said that criminality is genetic, and that if one or both of your parents are criminals, so will you be, regardless of environmental factors. Was really pleased with himself because he thought nobody could prove him wrong. Informed him that I was adopted at birth bc my biological father was in prison and my mother couldn't support me, and I had never commit any crime. I wouldn't even drink underage. Не got flustered and angry and said you haven't YET, but you WILL. Joke's on him. I'm a good boy.
llCloudIXII 7y ago When i was in kindergarten, our homework assignment was to ask our parents what country they were from so the teacher could show us on the globe where it was. Younger me was so excited! I went home and asked my Mom where she was born and she told me her family was from Malaysia. All day i practiced and practiced. I couldn't wait to share this info with my teacher! When i went to school the next day, i told my teacher that my mom is from Malaysia. With a look of utter disappointment, my teacher
talonz1523 7y ago Science teacher, during the sex ed portion of the year, said all penises are the same size when it counts (i.e. when erect). Classmate then asked why boobs can be different sizes, but the penis is the same for all men. Teacher them said she didn't know and that would be a question she would ask St.Peter when arriving at the pearly gates. I have a feeling the science teacher never saw more than one erect penis.
aesthetic-pixies . 7y ago a Edited 7y ago My grade 6 teacher told me that fatigued was in fact not a word when I used it in a short story and insisted that | looked in the dictionary. Found it in the dictionary in about 2 minutes and proved her wrong in front of the whole class.
deathman1651 . 7y ago 7 billion people died in WWII, 200 million Russians included.
MVP_Bradsta 7y ago We were playing a game where you had to name a thing beginning with each letter of the alphabet I said Orangutan for o and my cookery teacher stopped and shouted NO NO ORANGUTAN IS WRONG IT STARTS WITH AN A HAVE YOU EVER BEEN TO A ZOO AND SEEN ONE? She wouldn't let me prove it and i lost the game because of it. Its been 7 years and i still cant forget it.
TheB1FFY 7y ago When transferring schools: Teacher: So you're from Mexico... Me: No, I'm from New Mexico. Teacher: Got it, so you're Mexican. Was the student visa program difficult? Me: No Visa needed. I'm from New Mexico, it's between Texas and Arizona. Teacher: Did you live near cartels? This was an American History class in High School...
MyStarlingClementine 7y ago That Tsarina was the first name of the wife of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and not her title. She understood that Tsar was Nicholas's title and not his name, but could not apply the same logic to Alexandra. She insisted that Tsarina was her given name, and no amount of arguing would change her mind. I'm still annoyed about this 20 years later.
SpiralSuitcase a 7y ago Deoxygenated blood is blue. Oxygenated blood is red. That's why your veins look blue, but if you draw blood it is red. | don't know how many people thought this was true, but I swear I heard it multiple times from several teachers during elementary school.
GarlicBlink . 7y ago Not really hilarious but definitely dangerous. she taught us Inflammable meant non- flammable. After correcting her immediately she made me sit at the back of the class and go through the dictionary to find the word for non-flammable after refusing to believe me and having embarrassed her. | was only ten...
princess_o_darkness 7y ago I grew up in England but did part of my high school in the US. One of the teachers there organised a thing where we were volunteered to read stories to elementary school kids. After reading my story, I guess the teacher felt the need to make note of my accent to the class. She asked me to tell the kids where I was from. I said I'm from England and she did that thing teachers do where she repeats the info to the kids but she says Did you hear that kids? She's from England, that's
bennett93ish © 7y ago Edited 7y ago Had a history teacher who said you could easily shoot a longbow a mile. I told hee she was wrong and to prove a point she phoned my dad... a Longbow instructor. Then she straight up lied to the class and said he'd agreed with her assuming I wouldn't find out I guess.
. 7y ago That a Big Mac from McDonalds overwhelms your stomach with so much of everything that it doesn't register you've eaten anything and that's why you get hungry again so quickly after.
Better_In_PLastic . 7y ago In 7th grade when we were studying the Holocaust, my teacher told me that the swastika was made when Hitler took the Cross and broke it's points to show the world he was above God.
fffogolin . 7y ago English is my second language, and during english class, one of the students asked her what did lion cub mean. She says it means lion cube. No, it doesn't make any more sense in my native language.
Firefly128 . 7y ago That dogs evolved longer faces so they could smell things around corners...
not_a_gun Ф 7у ago My economics teacher said that simple interest and compound interest were the same thing. I spoke up about it in class and she took me into the hallway and told me not to disagree with her again
. 7y ago You don't need to know about periods yet because you aren't 16. I was 12 and had had them for a year.
lauradiana158 7y ago Once a horse closes its mouth, its jaw locks and it is literally impossible for a human to open its mouth again. I lost it. I work and lived around horses my entire life. All you do is put your finger in the side of the horses mouth where they have no teeth and voila! They open their mouth. Like how do you think a bit is put in their mouth stupid English teacher? (She told this fact to our class when she told a story about her friend getting her hand broken trying to feed a
BlitheringEediot . 7y ago I had a teacher that swore that Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad was a physical railroad that ran under the ground!
driverboy101 . 7y ago That caffeine isn't a drug, apparently because according to her, you 'couldn't get addicted to it'.
cryptidcrouton .7y ago That the word 'queue' didn't exist
taneth 7y ago One of my first teachers told the class that the sea is blue because it's a reflection of the sky. That same teacher, later in the year, told the same class that the sky was blue because it was a reflection of the sea. We lived on land; the sky should be green or brown; the sea, being only a reflection of a reflection, should be copying that green or brown. I pointed this out, began to present the correct answer, and was promptly sent out of the room for being disruptive.
tunisianite . 7y ago While teaching Japanese history, my teacher was entirely convinced that the suicide of a Japanese Samurai was called sudoku, instead of seppuku
molstern . 7y ago Sound moves really fast, so distance doesn't matter. You can hear something just as well from across the room as if you were sitting next to the noisy thing, because it takes less than a second for the sound to reach you.
72Challupas . 7y ago My science teacher freshman year told us there was air in space. She also told us that that's how rockets are able to fly. The fire behind them burns air in space to push them forward.
Manateeyee . 7y ago A person with conjunctivitis can spread it just by looking at you
Kharn0 . 7y ago Glaciers don't move, they melt and re-freeze. She was an earth science teacher...
tatorene37 . 7y ago If you make more money you get taxed at a higher rate, so overall you lose money with a promotion... this was my economics teacher in high school

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