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Things you were taught/learnt at school that you have found out to be wrong.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Why is it we are taught things that are so very often misinformation, compared to actual reasons?

For example:

At school I was taught that a spaceship entering our atmosphere from out of space gets hot due to friction, when it is in-fact from the difference in pressure.

A good example of this is the Diesel engine. Diesel is considerable harder to ignite than petrol and is heated in a cylinder through compression of the liquid into a smaller space.

Any other things that you were taught that you have found out to be incorrect?

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By *ighty_tightyMan
over a year ago

Norfolk/Suffolk

Poor Pluto, no longer a planet

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex

I don't think I was taught anything at school that I later learned to be wrong except possibly in RE lessons.

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By *acey_RedWoman
over a year ago

Liverpool

A lot of it isn't necessarily wrong, just simplified versions or an over generalisation. Especially in science. When you study at a higher level you sometimes spend a lot of time unlearning the "basic rules" you were previously taught.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Was told at school that girls can't get pregnant on their first time or during their period....don't you just love 80s sex education

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Not wrong per se just crap i didnt need. I’d rather have learnt about money management and economics as opposed to Pythagoras theorem.

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By *yron69Man
over a year ago

Fareham


"Not wrong per se just crap i didnt need. I’d rather have learnt about money management and economics as opposed to Pythagoras theorem. "

Pyramid scheme?

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By *annaBeStrongMan
over a year ago

wokingham

My PE course 15 years ago was absolutely filled with rubbish, as much of the health and fitness sector is

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Poor Pluto, no longer a planet"

Still livid about this

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By *yron69Man
over a year ago

Fareham

There was much they didn’t teach us at school.

What the Troubles we’re about. Post war immigration. Space, the environment. Economics. Or logic even.

We seemed to be destined either for dead end jobs or unemployment. Fortunately a lot of the lads subverted that.

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West


"A lot of it isn't necessarily wrong, just simplified versions or an over generalisation. Especially in science. When you study at a higher level you sometimes spend a lot of time unlearning the "basic rules" you were previously taught."

^^^This. We tell white lies to Science students all the time.

GCSE - speed equals distance over time.

A level - actually, v² = u² + 2ax (plus two other equations of motion)

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By *avie65Man
over a year ago

In the west.


"A lot of it isn't necessarily wrong, just simplified versions or an over generalisation. Especially in science. When you study at a higher level you sometimes spend a lot of time unlearning the "basic rules" you were previously taught."

Arithmetic is a good example, I was always shown the long way to work something out.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

RE but the main one “You won’t be carrying a calculator with you everywhere in the future now will you?”

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex


"RE but the main one “You won’t be carrying a calculator with you everywhere in the future now will you?”"

very true or "you won't be able to just look this up when you're at work".

2022 doctors Google symptoms

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"RE but the main one “You won’t be carrying a calculator with you everywhere in the future now will you?”

very true or "you won't be able to just look this up when you're at work".

2022 doctors Google symptoms"

I think googling symptoms is still something I won’t do

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By *oding1Man
over a year ago

marlow

Sorry but your slant on science is way off!

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By *batMan
over a year ago

Alicante, Spain. (Sometimes in Wales)

In fairness to Doctors who google search while at work, they’re more likely to know which websites to trust and will do a better job at interpreting the data they find. I don’t think they read “Beryl’s” post on Facebook.

Gbat

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By *iss SJWoman
over a year ago

Hull

I before E except after C

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West


"I before E except after C "

In order to seize the upper hand, I forfeit my right to the weird glacier

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Sorry but your slant on science is way off!"

Who is this aimed at?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Poor Pluto, no longer a planet"

I know poor Pluto !

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By *iddlesticksMan
over a year ago

My nan’s spare room.

Having my arse smacked in front of the class didn’t help me learn to read any better.

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By *eaqueenWoman
over a year ago

Heathrow

Sitting on radiators doesn’t give you piles

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Sitting on radiators doesn’t give you piles "

I think also eating crusts or the burnt bits doesn’t give you curly hair.

And the wind changed and so did my face, it was never frozen that way

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ex husband went to Catholic school. Some of the stuff they were told would beggar belief!

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By *ud and BryanCouple
over a year ago

Boston, Lincolnshire

Once - on a school trip to a Castle - I was told the doors were lower because everyone was much shorter then. (Frustratingly, most people still believe that)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Was told at school that girls can't get pregnant on their first time or during their period....don't you just love 80s sex education"

I can't get pregnant now

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West


"Sitting on radiators doesn’t give you piles "

My Grandma told me sitting on a cold stone surface would give me piles

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By *usie pTV/TS
over a year ago

taunton

My schooling was long before any sex education was considered but I have always for some reason remember the RE teacher telling us not to worry about the size of our penis because they would all be the same size after a few years lol.

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By *RANDMRSJAECouple
over a year ago

chester

That learning Welsh was a privilege and would be invaluable any crap from the gospels according to Mathew, mark, Luke & John!

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By *ife NinjaMan
over a year ago

Dunfermline


"A lot of it isn't necessarily wrong, just simplified versions or an over generalisation. Especially in science. When you study at a higher level you sometimes spend a lot of time unlearning the "basic rules" you were previously taught.

Arithmetic is a good example, I was always shown the long way to work something out. "

Purely to bore you to death

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By *oding1Man
over a year ago

marlow

You my friend

Diesel engines work by compressing only air, or air plus residual combustion gases from the exhaust (known as exhaust gas recirculation (EGR)). Air is inducted into the chamber during the intake stroke, and compressed during the compression stroke. This increases the air temperature inside the cylinder to such a high degree that atomised diesel fuel injected into the combustion chamber ignites. With the fuel being injected into the air just before combustion,the atomized diesel fuel is not liquid as liquid diesel can't be compressed.

The spacecraft re entry converts the crafts kenetic energy into heat energy through gas friction.

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

Languages would be useful. I did French for 3 years and German for 2. In foreign business, English was the common language although they did like attempts to speak their own.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"You my friend

Diesel engines work by compressing only air, or air plus residual combustion gases from the exhaust (known as exhaust gas recirculation (EGR)). Air is inducted into the chamber during the intake stroke, and compressed during the compression stroke. This increases the air temperature inside the cylinder to such a high degree that atomised diesel fuel injected into the combustion chamber ignites. With the fuel being injected into the air just before combustion,the atomized diesel fuel is not liquid as liquid diesel can't be compressed.

The spacecraft re entry converts the crafts kenetic energy into heat energy through gas friction."

I always believed this so looked it up. Frictional heating plays a small part but apparently the dominant effect is the compression of the gas a meteor (or space ship) is passing through by the hypersonic shock wave ...

I knew in the event of a massive impact like the one that possibly wiped out the dinosaurs there would be a massive firestorm triggered by this compressed air. Never really connected this to normal meteorite burnout.

Mr

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By *emorefridaCouple
over a year ago

La la land


"Was told at school that girls can't get pregnant on their first time or during their period....don't you just love 80s sex education"

It's thanks to that nugget of information that I exist

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