Most incorrect thing you were taught?

Rattlesnakes aren't are not venomness that they are like a boa and squeeze the air out of you.

I also asked why if at the top of mountains its closer to the sun why is it cold and covered in snow.

I was told to get the globe and bring it up to her and when i did she told me to run my fingers over the bumps that showed mountains, so I did.

She then said "so you see there isn't really that much of a difference"

That was it on the matter. No more info and it left poor wee me very confused.

I was taught that there are 52 states in America. I corrected the teacher and he screamed at me for ages.

I had a pig ignorant student teacher in 6th year (normally we took it handy on them, as they usually looked like they were about to wet themselves).

She had us for religion (alarm bells) and we somehow wound up discussing the Dublin bombings of 1974. She insisted it was the IRA that planted them, despite me asking what their motivation could be and saying that, while no one has ever been charged for it, it was most likely British Intelligence to blame.

My class backed me up, but that jumped up little trollop made some kind of "ooh you wouldn't know, being so young" comment (her being approx 23 at the time :rolleyes:)

That I'd go blind if I didn't stop playing with it.

We had a right dope teaching us Woodwork and Construction Studies. Throughout our 6 years of secondary school he told us some stuff that was completely wrong.

Paper has no thickness.

Condensation on the inside of a window is actually rainwater coming through the glass.

And the best one of all; He was telling us how a mixture of different metals is called an alloy, he added, that's why the British and American troops in World War 2 were called the Alloys.

What a fool.

Carrots are good for your eyesight... The reality was that RAF pilots during the Battle of Britain were given larger rations of carrots because there were short supplies on most other food and their high kill ratio was not due to their improved eyesight with eating so many carrots but because there was a vast network of radar stations on the south coast of England which alerted them exactly where the Luftwaffe was flying in from.

El Siglo wrote: »

Carrots are good for your eyesight... The reality was that RAF pilots during the Battle of Britain were given larger rations of carrots because there were short supplies on most other food and their high kill ratio was not due to their improved eyesight with eating so many carrots but because there was a vast network of radar stations on the south coast of England which alerted them exactly where the Luftwaffe was flying in from.

Isn't the beta-carotene in carrots good for your eyes?

Paulie Gualtieri wrote: »

years ago when I was an alter boy the priest used to let us drink the Jesus juice after mass and he'd wrestle us , and he said that there was a new wrestling move called the hidden sausage but I looked it up and ..... aw the dirty fu..........

Haha, fits in with your username too, he was an alter boy.
Them priests are cocksuckers!

Bruce7 wrote: »

In my primary school you could take extra classes in French after school to prepare you for secondary entrance exams. It cost money and was just a scam for the teachers to make a few extra quid. They didn't know any French.

Entrance exams in French? oh la la, what kind of posh secondary school did you go to?

joeperry wrote: »

That Irelands flag was green white and gold.

Unfortunately, it seems some idiots still believe this, even so-called "journalists"
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/tricolour-is-finally-raised-two-famous-patriots-3074596.html

I corrected a teacher in 1st year on the meaning of chemist, he thought it was the same thing as pharmacist. I was being a bit pedantic alright. His reaction was priceless - "Look Dan, that's what the word meant when I was growing up, alright" then he proceeded to mumble inaudibly and glance sneeringly in my direction for about 30 seconds while walking in circles around his desk.

I had to tell another teacher there was no dot on a capital i. He wasn't an English teacher, in fairness to him.

We had a science and biology teacher who used to start classes with a prayer. This was in the late 90's and early 00's.

Best one was a christian brother who told us the virgin Mary appears every Friday at a certain specified time on the dot in some country in the former Yugoslavia. When I asked him why television cameras don't go there, he said "oh sure everyone is so used to it now, they don't bother going. Just a few locals go there every week to talk to her". He was a very nice fella but obviously deluded.

joeperry wrote: »

That Irelands flag was green white and gold.

This pisses me off no end! My kids are still being told this in school - I told the older one to go in and tell her teacher she was wrong, and there was three or four other kids whose parents told them the same thing!!

blue5000 wrote: »

In Ag college a lecturer tried to convince us that 10 acres was enough land for 100 ewes:o

Yea eh, what a madman...

Skid wrote: »

I had a National School teacher who couldn't add up fractions properly.

She insisted 2 1/2 + 2 1/2 was 4 1/2.

2 halves + 2 halves is 4 halves. She was right after all. Yay.

_LilyRose_ wrote: »

There's a teacher in my school- geography and English- who pronounces 'tsunami' like 'tu-sami'. No word of a lie. Students have said it to her, but she just tells them they're wrong.

Blast her with piss.......

joeperry wrote: »

That Irelands flag was green white and gold.

That's a very good one. Every year we were told to make Paddy's Day cards with green, white and yellow paper. I mean, the orange is quite fundamental to our recent history, no? How the fcuk can a teacher get that wrong?