Stupid Crap Teachers Told You

[SaintB]

i went to a canadian public school were i was taugh liberalism would save the world, and multicuralism is the cure for wars.
Now im living in a city plagued by Gang wars (indian vs chinese, white vs black, etc)

because none of those people want to get along and they refuse to acknowledge other cultures. that and its because they want to make money selling drugs.

[The Adrian Empire]

i went to a canadian public school were i was taugh liberalism would save the world, and multicuralism is the cure for wars.
Now im living in a city plagued by Gang wars (indian vs chinese, white vs black, etc)

I'll hazard a guess...
Vancouver or it's boroughs?

Either way.
Both are fairly poor theories,
Not that I like racism, multiculturalism, however doesn't to me do any better
Liberalism, well, just no

[UnhealthyTruthseeker]

Because "If a dog is blind, then it cannot see," is an if/then statement, it is a hypothesis.

Never mind that it is not testable, and is simply the definition of blindness.

That's not a stupid statement. Mathematicians and scientists mean different things by the word "hypothesis," that's all.

[Czardas]

Different kinds of stupid: a math teacher who once took points off a homework assignment because I had put down the answer to 7 - (-4) as 11. He said it was 3. I imagine he had misread the problem, though. Then there was an English teacher with the attitude of "there is only one correct way to interpret this text, and it's mine." Any interpretations that differed from hers (which were often from a fundamentalist Christan viewpoint) were wrong and would receive poor grades. (She also had a tendency to round down the grades of students she didn't like, such as me, but that veers into different territory.) Later on, I had a composition teacher who informed me that the music I wrote was worthless rubbish (although in fancier words). He was emulating his old music teacher, it turned out, who'd done exactly the same thing (to the point of tearing up manuscripts if they displeased him), but still, not exactly the best teaching strategy.

And of course there were teachers who told me that people are pleasant, nice, or trustworthy, or teachers who told me that everyone's opinion is equally valuable and worthy of consideration, and the like. But considering those statements "stupid" would probably send me careening into Internet Tough Guy territory. <.<

[Uawc]

Anything and everything related to politics.

[Unilisia]

Nobody hates America

WOW. Since when ?

[Kleggus]

My teacher trys to tell me that the first nations never fought eachother, ever!
Then on the next page we read about a war the cree and blood tribes fought...

[Karsol]

That the electron rings of an atom were only comprised 8 electrons every ring after the first two electron ring.

I after doing my A-levels I knew this was false.

[Rejistania]

I was told that everyone's opinion is equally valid and that all opinions matter.

My German teacher did that as well. Then gave people bad marks who disagreed with him.

And we had religious education in school, so I got fed a lot of crap. It helped me becoming an atheist though...

[Cabra West]

One of our teachers told us that humans need meat for a balanced diet...

[Cabra West]

I'll hazard a guess...
Vancouver or it's boroughs?

Either way.
Both are fairly poor theories,
Not that I like racism, multiculturalism, however doesn't to me do any better
Liberalism, well, just no

Right... so you don't want people to live separately, but you don't want them living together either?

[Grandais]

That the electron rings of an atom were only comprised 8 electrons every ring after the first two electron ring.

I after doing my A-levels I knew this was false.

The thing with high-school chemistry is that classes retcon the previous years. In other words, they teach you false information in the early years because they reckoned you couldn't understand it then.

In year 7, atoms have 2 electrons in the first shell and 8 in every one afterward.
In year 8, they have 2 electrons in the first shell, 8 in the second, and it goes up from there (don't quite remember the exact numbers)
In year 12, each pair of electrons is in an 'orbital', and each shell is divided into up to four subshells with differing numbers of electrons.

There's other stuff I don't remember but it's weird like that. It was easier when people thought atoms were the smallest particles!

[Grandais]

My science teacher, just today, promised to show us pictures of aborted babies to show us how horrible abortion is.

Hmm, wouldn't the school not allow that?

He also hates pre-marital sex ("don't understand marriage"), any birth control but 'rhythm' or whatever that is and a bunch of other things.

Rhythm method is when you use a calendar to determine when someone has their period and not have sex on those days.
It's pretty inaccurate.

[UnhealthyTruthseeker]

The thing with high-school chemistry is that classes retcon the previous years. In other words, they teach you false information in the early years because they reckoned you couldn't understand it then.

In year 7, atoms have 2 electrons in the first shell and 8 in every one afterward.
In year 8, they have 2 electrons in the first shell, 8 in the second, and it goes up from there (don't quite remember the exact numbers)
In year 12, each pair of electrons is in an 'orbital', and each shell is divided into up to four subshells with differing numbers of electrons.

There's other stuff I don't remember but it's weird like that. It was easier when people thought atoms were the smallest particles!

After that, electrons in an atom have four quantum numbers corresponding to four different sets of eigenvalues for solutions of the Dirac equation.

The principle quantum number n. It can be any integer strictly greater than 0.

The orbital angular momentum quantum number l. "l" can be any integer from 0 to n-1, where n is the particular principle quantum number.

The magnetic quantum number m, which represents the projection of the total angular momentum onto an imposed axis. It can have any integer value from -l to l.

The spin quantum number, which is very strange and sort of represents the intrinsic angular momentum of a particle. It can only ever have two values, +1/2 or -1/2.

Because electrons must obey the Pauli exclusion principle, no two electrons can have the same set of quantum numbers.

Thus, we see that 2 electrons fit in the n = 1 shell, 8 fit into the n = 2 shell, 18 into the n = 3 shell, etc.

The s, p, d, f, and so on orbitals that you get come from different values of l. When l = 0, you get s. l = 1 gets you p, and so on.

Strictly speaking, even this is technically wrong for all atoms other than Hydrogen. However, it's pretty close to what's actually going on. It turns out that, due to the fun issue with 3 or more body problems, we can't get an actual closed-form solution for the exact wave-functions for electrons in non-hydrogenic atoms. (A hydrogenic atom is an atom with one electron.)

[Blob-land]

I was told that everyone's opinion is equally valid and that all opinions matter.

Lies!

This may not be teachers, but...a girl in my class (while studying WW2 in 5th grade) asked "Who's Hitler?" and "What's a bomber?" my friend's jaws fell to the floor, and nearly got a detention for laughing.

[Rejistania]

Oh, and I almost forgot; this was what was at the end of our birth control lecture:

Abstinence is the only 100% birth control method.

It didn't help Mary

[Grandais]

I was told that everyone's opinion is equally valid and that all opinions matter.

Lies!

This may not be teachers, but...a girl in my class (while studying WW2 in 5th grade) asked "Who's Hitler?" and "What's a bomber?" my friend's jaws fell to the floor, and nearly got a detention for laughing.

:/

The thing with high-school chemistry is that classes retcon the previous years. In other words, they teach you false information in the early years because they reckoned you couldn't understand it then.

In year 7, atoms have 2 electrons in the first shell and 8 in every one afterward.
In year 8, they have 2 electrons in the first shell, 8 in the second, and it goes up from there (don't quite remember the exact numbers)
In year 12, each pair of electrons is in an 'orbital', and each shell is divided into up to four subshells with differing numbers of electrons.

There's other stuff I don't remember but it's weird like that. It was easier when people thought atoms were the smallest particles!

After that, electrons in an atom have four quantum numbers corresponding to four different sets of eigenvalues for solutions of the Dirac equation.

The principle quantum number n. It can be any integer strictly greater than 0.

The orbital angular momentum quantum number l. "l" can be any integer from 0 to n-1, where n is the particular principle quantum number.

The magnetic quantum number m, which represents the projection of the total angular momentum onto an imposed axis. It can have any integer value from -l to l.

The spin quantum number, which is very strange and sort of represents the intrinsic angular momentum of a particle. It can only ever have two values, +1/2 or -1/2.

Because electrons must obey the Pauli exclusion principle, no two electrons can have the same set of quantum numbers.

Thus, we see that 2 electrons fit in the n = 1 shell, 8 fit into the n = 2 shell, 18 into the n = 3 shell, etc.

The s, p, d, f, and so on orbitals that you get come from different values of l. When l = 0, you get s. l = 1 gets you p, and so on.

Strictly speaking, even this is technically wrong for all atoms other than Hydrogen. However, it's pretty close to what's actually going on. It turns out that, due to the fun issue with 3 or more body problems, we can't get an actual closed-form solution for the exact wave-functions for electrons in non-hydrogenic atoms. (A hydrogenic atom is an atom with one electron.)

My brain!

[Antilon]

"It's okay for people to vote for Palin because she has nice-looking glasses." (Oct., 2008)

[Blitzkrenia]

A teacher once told me I'd amount to great things.

Unless the definition of "great things" is sitting in front of a ancient laptop while wearing the same clothes for 3 days, that was a lie,

[You-Gi-Owe]

In high school, my Advanced Placement US Government teacher told me that the United States was a Christian nation. When I pointed out that many of the founding fathers were atheists or deists, she told me that Deism was a sect of Christianity.

So, share the stupid shit you've been told by teachers over your life.

Your teacher was 50% right.

America IS a Christian nation, founded upon Judeo-Christian principles and mostly populated by Christians of different denominations, which happens to have a secular/non-religious government.

The "deism" thing is kind of silly.

In your opinion, though, how many founding fathers were there and what percentage of that number meets the requirements for "many"? In your opinion, does many equal single digits, double digits....

[UnhealthyTruthseeker]

Your teacher was 50% right.

America IS a Christian nation, founded upon Judeo-Christian principles and mostly populated by Christians of different denominations, which happens to have a secular/non-religious government.

The "deism" thing is kind of silly.

In your opinion, though, how many founding fathers were there and what percentage of that number meets the requirements for "many"? In your opinion, does many equal single digits, double digits....

I hear this claim all the time. When I actually bother to ask what Judeo-Christian principles America was founded on, I get nothing but dead silence.

[Birch Hollow]

My Advanced Placement Junior English teacher was racist and used the N word all the time. She was also drunk all day.

[Northern Rangeria]

Not actually a teacher, but a pro bono lecturer doing a course on Léann Dúchais, or Heritage Studies, when I spent a year abroad in Ireland. He insisted that the image of a dragon in Celtic mythology and others was because of some sort of genetic memory, passed on from the time of dinosaurs. Apparently the sight of dinosaurs was so awe-inducing that our rodent-like ancestors actually passed on the memory genetically, all the way down to mankind.

He was a little loopy, this lecturer...

[Bafuria]

My history teacher told us that Alfred Nobel invented the atomic bomb.

[Tekania]

Your teacher was 50% right.

America IS a Christian nation, founded upon Judeo-Christian principles and mostly populated by Christians of different denominations, which happens to have a secular/non-religious government.

The "deism" thing is kind of silly.

In your opinion, though, how many founding fathers were there and what percentage of that number meets the requirements for "many"? In your opinion, does many equal single digits, double digits....

I hear this claim all the time. When I actually bother to ask what Judeo-Christian principles America was founded on, I get nothing but dead silence.

You know, things like not murdering other people, not lying, not stealing... Because clearly as one can tell from history people who identify themselves as "Christian" never engage in those sorts of activities... It should also be apparent from the fact that it is illegal to work on Sundays anywhere in the US, and baptism is mandatory for all citizens...