The book Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen goes a long way to accomplish this. At least it did for me.
USA is a democracy
I think the biggest one that was drilled into us constantly, especially about WW2 and Nazis was
“ Those Who Cannot Remember the Past Are Condemned To Repeat It”
This was a load of shit as evidenced by what is going on in the USA right now and other parts of the world. The real lesson should have been to push back the second a nazi takes an inch as they will take more if you play the nice and tolerate. Not everyone is well intentioned.
1987 Edison was a genius and invented everything, Turns out he was actually the Elon Musk of his time.
"What you were taught
“Flu shots give you the flu”What we know now
A common misconception…Updated understanding emerged around 2020"
Updated for whom? Anti-vaccine idiots?
The United States is a constitutional Republic/democracy with 3 co-equal branches of government…
I mean it technically still is. de jure at least
It’s like this:
We need the “under an fascist hybrid regime with a judicial junta (aka: “supreme court”) and a mostly rubber-stamp legislature filled with cultists” to the label in the USA page.
Edit: Worth reading the discussion page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:United_States
I’m not sure that Russia really counts as anything other than an actual dictatorship. It’s not like there’s a free and open choice and people just keep voting against their own interests like in the US, the elections are of course rigged and there are no opponents anyway. Anyone that might stand against him gets assassinated.
Of course Trump probably will try and go that route as well, but he hasn’t done it yet, and he hasn’t consolidated his power there are still people in positions of some authority pushing back against him.
Work hard and you will be rewarded and taken care of. LOLLLLLLLLLL.
I don’t care if it’s wrong, Marilyn Manson had his ribs removed so he could blow himself
He responded to this rumor in his autobiography saying “If I really got my ribs removed, I would have been busy sucking my own dick on The Wonder Years instead of chasing Winnie Cooper. Plus, who really has time to be killing puppies when you can be sucking your own dick? I think I’m gonna call the surgeon in the morning”
Brian Warner can fuck right off tho
They taught you that in school?
I learned that in middle school. It was from a kid on the bus but it was still middle school.
You do your most important learning outside of the classroom
lololol
Believe it or not, this rumor actually stretches all the way back to dianunzio from Italy in the 1940s.
I still want whoever decided that “I before E except after C” should be taught to children locked up. Im almost 50, and I still spell “their” wrong if I dont concentrate.
“I before E exthept after ‘th’” should do the trick. Just have to remember that the last part is pronounced “thee”.
Oh so we graduated almost at the same time it seems.
I went through the two websites posted here for graduation year 2008. The only incorrect thing I was taught that I still believed was:
“Learning styles (visual, auditory, kinesthetic) determine how you best learn”
False. Huh.
The fact that we thought Pluto was a planet seemed absolutely insane at the time but none of the kids could question the adult in the room when the stupid rock is literally not even staying in its own lane
I guess the big one for me is the whole Mozart for babies thing. It wasn’t Mozart’s music making babies and young children smarter, it was a combination of more affluent parents or at least parents with college plus educations having time and income to spend on enrichment activities.
Oh, thanks! That makes so much more sense!
On a tangential note, I find hilarious which songs my toddler picks up and which ones are immediately forgotten. Somehow APT and Hey Jude are the shit, most of everything else doesn’t stick. Wonder why…
Yeah, but that doesn’t stop baby toy markers from including that shit in every product
Fruit and vegetables being separate categories: Fruits are actually a type of vegetable. Additionally cucumbers are melons.
Cyan being a light blue: It is actually 50% green.
Simple machines are fundamental: They completely ignore compliant mechanisms and aren’t atomic. Actually atomic mechanisms would be defined by the type of force, the shape, and the compliance.
The only form of Socialism is Marxism and Communism and Capitalism means markets: Look up Mutualism or Syndicalism.
Basically everything with pop psychology.
I am sure there are more, but these were just top of my head.
That whole “got milk” campaign was a load of bullshit.
It turns out only about 30% of the global human population is able to even digest milk.
That, and most traditional dairy consuming European cultures never actually drank milk. They made cheese and butter, then poured the remainder in the pig trough to turn those calories into pork.
They made cheese and butter
The Nuer (a cattle-herding people from Sudan) would pour milk into gourds and add cow urine and leave it in the sun for months. I love eating food from around the world but that is one thing I would pass on. They never drank milk, but if they needed liquid calories they would poke a hole in a cow and drink some of their blood.
Absolutely. Mainly a problem of conservation of raw milk.
The most delicious of calories.
man i cant even have my mocha frap without oat milk
Yeah but those avacadoes…
Rome didn’t have special rooms for people to vomit in, then resume feasting.
Soviet blocking brigades weren’t machine gun nests set up to mow down retreating soviet soldiers.
Vietnam had a regular army, it wasn’t entirely a guerrilla force.
Vietnam had a regular army, it wasn’t entirely a guerrilla force.
Did they not teach that North Vietnam (and therefore the NVA) existed?
Kind of. That’s not really reconciled with the l general impression that the US won every single battle, and couldn’t find any more enemies to fight, because the Vietnamese would run away and hide in the woods or among the locals and the US only lost the war at home.
When the real story of Vietnam is: we shot a bunch of Vietnamese people and then dropped our entire back stock of WWII-era bombs on them (and their neighbors) and then up and left and now they make our shoes for us.
Haha, not really.
Well, yes they did, but if one only pays attention in hollywood movies and not in school they wouldn’t know it.
Rome didn’t have special rooms for people to vomit in, then resume feasting.
This is more like not being taught anything other than that they had “vomitoriums,” without being told what they were. Vomitoriums existed. They still exist, too. It just means a large opening or passageway. Like the entrance/exit to the colluseum.
No, they literally taught that the romans feasted so much they had special rooms for vomiting in. One of my aunts was incredulous that it was no longer taught, and insisted she had been to rome and saw the vomitoria, and remains convinced that it’s just some new theory by some fringe historian.
Class of 2003.
Food wheel was taught in elementary school. As were the taste bud “zones” and the American Dream.
We had the Food Pyramid here in Canada, which is very similarly a lie pushed by the dairy and grain industries and not linked to any real health benefits.
I now refer to the [https://nutritionsource.hsph.harvard.edu/healthy-eating-pyramid/](Harvard food pyramid) that seems to be meaningful
