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[–] arsCynic@beehaw.org 5 points 5 days ago

That adults are mature and know what they are doing.

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✍︎ arscyni.cc: modernity ∝ nature.

[–] invertedspear@lemm.ee 5 points 5 days ago

The moon was spun out of the same stuff as the earth. That was fact in the early years of my education. A few years later there were multiple theories: co development, captured a wandering planetoid, the Thea impact, and a fourth one I can’t remember but I think it was something dumb like planetary mitosis. By the time I graduated the Thea impact was considered the only viable theory.

[–] Structure7528@lemm.ee 10 points 6 days ago

In my college Econ 101 class I was taught that "economic liberalism" would lead to political liberalism. I knew that was a myth back then, but my professors insisted. Twenty years later we've got economic nationalism and political fascism taking over everywhere.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Hear about pluto? Pretty messed up huh?

[–] jongosi@feddit.nl 2 points 5 days ago

You know that's right!

[–] nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 days ago

I was taught that Pluto is a planet. How could they have been so wrong???

[–] Horsey@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

By the time I was in school the Bohr model was already proven inaccurate, but was taught anyway because the orbital model is too esoteric for teenagers πŸ™„.

[–] lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

"This is the best time of your life, it will never be as easy."
I wasted more time at school than at work and I didn't have Fridays off, so that was a lie.

[–] JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

There are 10 Commandments.

No - there's 14.

And most of them also have sub-commandments, just to confuse it further.

[–] uuldika@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago

613 mitzvot! Β± a couple hundred, depending on whether you're a Kohen, live in Israel, if the Temple has been rebuilt, or are the first-century sage Hillel (in which case there's one mitzvah and 612 articles of commentary.)

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[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 10 points 6 days ago

Gravity Waves didn't exist according to my highschool science teacher

[–] frozenspinach@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I had a substitute teacher who saw the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth ads against John Kerry and repeated it to the class like it was 100% fact.

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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I learned that it’s not ok to be intelligent but completely incapable of remembering to do things or remembering the things that the teachers thought it was important for me to remember.

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