Most incorrect thing you were taught?

token101 · 13-04-2012 12:23am

Solair wrote: »

We were taught Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds...

Eh, thinking back on it... Some of our teachers would have been better doing stand-up comedy.

The same teacher who taught us Mull of Kintyre taught us Óró se do bheatha bhaile, Eleanor Rigby, and Two Little Boys. Strange but it was better than Maths!!!!

Solair · 13-04-2012 12:34am

token101 wrote: »

The same teacher who taught us Mull of Kintyre taught us Óró se do bheatha bhaile, Eleanor Rigby, and Two Little Boys. Strange but it was better than Maths!!!!

We had Yoga classes in transition year where you basically went out and chilled on the grass on a sunny day while trying to catalogue all the sounds you could hear!

Jesus Wept · 13-04-2012 12:44am

Solair wrote: »

My business studies teacher told us that Bill Gates invented the internet!!!
:eek::eek::eek::eek:

Al Gore would have a thing or two to say about that.

jill_valentine · 13-04-2012 1:21am

Karsini wrote: »

In a sex ed class in 2nd year I was told that self stimulation makes you a bad lover.

Maybe they were just finding it distracting and wanted you to lay off a bit.

cianisgood · 13-04-2012 1:28am

that the sun is made of gas

cianisgood · 13-04-2012 1:29am

also ireland has a strong economy lol

partyatmygaff · 13-04-2012 1:39am

johnt91 wrote: »

Blood is blue, until it touches oxygen.

wrmwit wrote: »

I remember our science teacher telling us that our blood was the colour blue, hence our blue vains. It turns red when it reacts with air and light! How mad is that!

Technically, neither is correct.

The haemoglobin (deoxyhaemoglobin) protein in red blood cells which carries oxygen and carbon dioxide (As well as poisons like CO) has a subsection which contains what is known as a chromophore which is a conjugated system of bonds. This chromophore absorbs a certain part of the visible spectrum giving the molecule a very intense purple-red colour.

When haemoglobin forms a complex or binds to oxygen, it becomes oxyhaemoglobin and the colour becomes a vibrant bright red due to the change in "shape" of the molecule resulting from the presence of the oxygen atoms.

In the veins however, there is carbaminohaemoglobin which is a carbon dioxide - haemoglobin complex. Carbaminohaemoglobin has a dark red-purple colour to it which when viewed in the veins under the skin appears bluish.

/Yes... this definitely counts as study for my physiology exam...

44leto · 13-04-2012 1:45am

You forget the thing we learned in school that wasn't on the curriculum, socialisation skills, group politics, girls, the latest Zeitgeist, how wrong all those lessons were. It's part of growing up and experiences I suppose.

MrSnuffleupagus · 13-04-2012 2:01am

Had a maths teacher who couldn't pronounce "parallelogram"

She'd go "perell... er..." and then just sorta trail off :rolleyes:

I also had to argue with a (different) JC teacher because she thought (as the rest of the class did) that to find the difference between a positive and negative number you subtract it

e.g. difference between -6 and 20 = 20-6 = 14

When I pointed out the error she called me "selfish" for interrupting class

Guy:Incognito · 13-04-2012 2:07am

finality wrote: »

That reminds me of my English teacher, she pronounces hyperbole as "hyper bowl".

Is that where the winners of the superbowl play the winners of the lingerie bowl?

Jesus Wept · 13-04-2012 2:11am

I'm still incredibly pissed off about the 'i' before 'e' thing.

I still spelled weird incorrectly until a few years ago.
Now that's wierd isn't it.

Guy:Incognito · 13-04-2012 2:42am

Ghost Buster wrote: »

Voter 'YES' for jobs.

Vote yes and we'll all be on €1.34 an hour

t1mm · 13-04-2012 2:47am

"If its on the internet, its right!" (as in correct)

:O

daveyt · 13-04-2012 10:26am

I remember studying the Franco Prussian war with a teacher new to the subject. Long story short, she thought that Prussia was a mixture of Poland and Russia.

Run_to_da_hills · 13-04-2012 10:33am

Transubstantiation.

Duggys Housemate · 13-04-2012 10:36am

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Transubstantiation.

See I bet you weren't taught transubstantiation, I learnt the theory later on in life, and it made philosophical sense for it's time.

c_man · 13-04-2012 10:44am

Where to start really! I suppose it's easy to write off the completely disproven guff we were fed e.g. "ye won't be able to walk outside when ye hit your twenties without a radiation suit due to the damage to the ozone layer" and that message being incorporated into a Christmas play :eek:

I remember in JC (2000) having a talk from a Professor dude attempting to get us into engineering. He said he'd no doubt that most of us would be involved in mining aluminium from dumps as the world would be running out of it by 2010, and we were also told that oil would be flowing in from the Corrib field making us all rich

Paparazzo · 13-04-2012 10:51am

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Transubstantiation.

They never thought that, they know that even 5 year old kids would call bullshít on it!

Grayson · 13-04-2012 10:56am

Duggys Housemate wrote: »

See I bet you weren't taught transubstantiation, I learnt the theory later on in life, and it made philosophical sense for it's time.

I was taught it in religion class. But we had lessons in dogma and doctorine. Very strange school.

eoferrall · 13-04-2012 11:14am

finality wrote: »

That reminds me of my English teacher, she pronounces hyperbole as "hyper bowl". Luckily American Dad taught me the correct pronunciation, but I don't have the heart to say it to her. :P

american english versus british english. came to english via french which has silent e so either pronunciation is correct really or least that's what I learnt. tomato tomato sort of thing vase vase vase also. maybe I have learnt something new (was wrong) today too....:pac:

deman · 13-04-2012 11:28am

At National school, I had my essay on the sun torn up because I referred to the sun as a star at a centre of our solar system. She shouted "the sun is NOT a star, it is THE SUN"

We were told at college that we needed to know 80 character long equations of by heart. This was before the modern computer age, but not before text books.

Our maths teacher taught us that a polygon was a dead parrot

We were told that you will never get anywhere in life if you can't spell, yet there are many people with Master's degrees that can't even spell simple everyday 4 letter words, such as "does".

wrmwit · 13-04-2012 11:42am

partyatmygaff wrote: »

Technically, neither is correct.

The haemoglobin (deoxyhaemoglobin) protein in red blood cells which carries oxygen and carbon dioxide (As well as poisons like CO) has a subsection which contains what is known as a chromophore which is a conjugated system of bonds. This chromophore absorbs a certain part of the visible spectrum giving the molecule a very intense purple-red colour.

When haemoglobin forms a complex or binds to oxygen, it becomes oxyhaemoglobin and the colour becomes a vibrant bright red due to the change in "shape" of the molecule resulting from the presence of the oxygen atoms.

In the veins however, there is carbaminohaemoglobin which is a carbon dioxide - haemoglobin complex. Carbaminohaemoglobin has a dark red-purple colour to it which when viewed in the veins under the skin appears bluish.

/Yes... this definitely counts as study for my physiology exam...

So my teacher was both right and wrong!

pickarooney · 13-04-2012 11:44am

Africa wrote: »

so? Perhaps theyll learn something and realise that sometimes we are all a bit naive

Also, to the parks thing, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_park#Urban_parks_by_size

We're way off, and not even biggest in europe.

It's not even the biggest 'Phoenix park'.

Run_to_da_hills · 13-04-2012 11:52am

Paparazzo wrote: »

They never thought that, they know that even 5 year old kids would call bullshít on it!

A bit of round wafer that has been magically turned into Jesus and some cheap supermarket wine that have been magically turned into His blood.

The Eucharist is a required sacrifice and we were then told that we would go to hell if we didn't eat it once a year, truly believing it contains the soul, divinity, blood, body, toenails, guts and eyeballs of Jesus. :eek:

Thank God I now take the Lords supper as symbolic.

13-04-2012 11:53am

I was thaught that there were 5 continents
1. North America
2. South America
3. Eurasia
4. Africa
5. Australia

I even questioned Antartica and was told that there was no land, only Ice.

Questioned how they kept woodworms from eating through the ship on Noah's Arc in senior infants and my mam got called in!

facemelter · 13-04-2012 12:13pm

Once in history class , we were watching some old movie and there was a train in one of the scenes , one boy in the class asked what was coming out of the top and I shouted out ( cause I was a little **** back in primary school) SMOKE !! ITS SMOKE ! , the teacher started giving out for me for talking ****e , then he said the words that made me lose all faith in teaching in Ireland. " its a steam engine , steam comes out t he top " , everyone believed him aswell , got called train boys for weeks !

briany · 13-04-2012 12:23pm

We were 'taught' in fifth year religion class that when you die, you would go to a room to be judged and a video of your life would play. The Virgin Mary would be stood behind you, playing devil's advocate on the venial sins, chiming in with "Oh, he/she didn't mean that really." etc.

One student was suspended for arguing about God with the religion teacher.

Also forced to sit through these types of videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwwU7EdqNx4

The change over from the "De la" to SCC did not a secular school make.

Xivilai · 13-04-2012 12:25pm

swallowing chewing gum will stick to your insides, my mom still swears by it

Also, free discarded baloons in the playground are not to be played with. Lies all. >:-(

Run_to_da_hills · 13-04-2012 12:28pm

That earwigs could crawl into your ear and burst your eardrum with their nippers. :eek:

Can remember letting out a scream in primary when one crawled up my leg in class.

El Weirdo · 13-04-2012 12:37pm

Ddad wrote: »

... if I caught someone telling a child they're thick (anyones child) I'd ream em....

Clearly, you and I were taught completely different definitions of that particular word.

Most incorrect thing you were taught?

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