Things you learned in school that are no longer true.

[Fate]

It happens a lot with medical science. On the front end we're told half of what we are taught is going to be shown to be wrong in 10 years. As with Marti, it's boring and/or technical stuff.

[Jacob]

Which is why I would say it meets the thread title but not the OP which seems to be more about things that were taught that we believed to be true but turned out not to be (or were never true but teachers taught them anyway).

If the Megathread Police have a recruitment drive, you'd be a shoo-in. Your enthusiasm and attention to detail on the OP Squad is exemplary.

[garbon]

[Admiral Yi]

If the Megathread Police have a recruitment drive, you'd be a shoo-in. Your enthusiasm and attention to detail on the OP Squad is exemplary.

This not being a megathread, or a microthread that should be merged to a megathread, the Megathread Police have no jurisdiction.  Rather your comments would make more sense if they referred to the Semantics Police.

[grumbler]

Which is why I would say it meets the thread title but not the OP which seems to be more about things that were taught that we believed to be true but turned out not to be (or were never true but teachers taught them anyway).

If the Megathread Police have a recruitment drive, you'd be a shoo-in. Your enthusiasm and attention to detail on the OP Squad is exemplary.

Indeed.  I don't know why garbo would think it important to note that the thread started as an interesting topic, but turned into a mere list of boring and stupid things people have had to learn because they had bad teachers.

AR's story about Adam's Rib is an example of what the thread should be about.  Your story about learning some details about coal production in Kazakhstan is an example of what it should not be about.

[MadImmortalMan]

It happens a lot with medical science. On the front end we're told half of what we are taught is going to be shown to be wrong in 10 years. As with Marti, it's boring and/or technical stuff.

I'm pretty sure the old food pyramid has become a minority-held opinion at this point.

[The Brain]

It happens a lot with medical science. On the front end we're told half of what we are taught is going to be shown to be wrong in 10 years. As with Marti, it's boring and/or technical stuff.

I'm pretty sure the old food pyramid has become a minority-held opinion at this point.

A fish, a bird, a reed, a man standing like *this*?

[Barrister]

It happens a lot with medical science. On the front end we're told half of what we are taught is going to be shown to be wrong in 10 years. As with Marti, it's boring and/or technical stuff.

Now that I think about it, it happens in law school too.

Just as an example, I went to law school 1997-2000.  In 1998 the SCC case out with a trio of cases that completely changed administrative law.  So our admin law class in 1998-1999 was taught to us from scratch based on these new cases.

In 2008 though the SCC thought better of it, and completely overhauled admin law again.  So everything I learned in class is now completely wrong.

[celedhring]

My Spanish language textbook still considered "Galician-Portuguese" to be the same language, and I was told as such by my teachers. It's been centuries since both languages diverged. I've always suspected that, since this was in the late 1980s, it was a remnant of Franco times Spanish cultural imperialism.

That's about the most interesting thing I can come up with that adheres strictly to the OP, sorry.

[grumbler]

I'm pretty sure the old food pyramid has become a minority-held opinion at this point.

Not really.  It has been renamed and tweaked, but the concept is still there and considered valid.

[The Larch]

My Spanish language textbook still considered "Galician-Portuguese" to be the same language, and I was told as such by my teachers. It's been centuries since both languages diverged. I've always suspected that, since this was in the late 1980s, it was a remnant of Franco times Spanish cultural imperialism.

That's about the most interesting thing I can come up with that adheres strictly to the OP, sorry.

You can still find that notion dangling around in philological circles. It has a hard time against the reality down on the ground, but it has some validity up in ivory towers.

[grumbler]

My Spanish language textbook still considered "Galician-Portuguese" to be the same language, and I was told as such by my teachers. It's been centuries since both languages diverged. I've always suspected that, since this was in the late 1980s, it was a remnant of Franco times Spanish cultural imperialism.

That's about the most interesting thing I can come up with that adheres strictly to the OP, sorry.

I think that "language as politics" is probably going to be fertile grounds for this kind of discussion, and I think that it is fascinating.  You probably haven't heard of Ebonics, but some US posters will remember that the US had its own home-grown language-as-politics movement.

[garbon]

My Spanish language textbook still considered "Galician-Portuguese" to be the same language, and I was told as such by my teachers. It's been centuries since both languages diverged. I've always suspected that, since this was in the late 1980s, it was a remnant of Franco times Spanish cultural imperialism.

That's about the most interesting thing I can come up with that adheres strictly to the OP, sorry.

I think that "language as politics" is probably going to be fertile grounds for this kind of discussion, and I think that it is fascinating.  You probably haven't heard of Ebonics, but some US posters will remember that the US had its own home-grown language-as-politics movement.

In high school my white teacher asked us to all write a poem in ebonics. As he hadn't err taught us ebonics or even anything about it (and my school didn't have a large population of black people), everyone just wrote like black caricatures.

[Malthus]

It happens a lot with medical science. On the front end we're told half of what we are taught is going to be shown to be wrong in 10 years. As with Marti, it's boring and/or technical stuff.

Now that I think about it, it happens in law school too.

Just as an example, I went to law school 1997-2000.  In 1998 the SCC case out with a trio of cases that completely changed administrative law.  So our admin law class in 1998-1999 was taught to us from scratch based on these new cases.

In 2008 though the SCC thought better of it, and completely overhauled admin law again.  So everything I learned in class is now completely wrong.

The list of law school ones is endless - my personal bugbear in law school was the "patent unreasonableness test" in administrative law, which I always thought made no damn sense - eventually, the SC decided that yes, indeed, the "patent unreasonableness test" made no damn sense. 

[Admiral Yi]

In high school my white teacher asked us to all write a poem in ebonics. As he hadn't err taught us ebonics or even anything about it (and my school didn't have a large population of black people), everyone just wrote like black caricatures.

Nobody listened to hip-hop?