Things you were taught in school-but, just aren't quite true.

[PartyPooper]

For me, there are so many things that were either covered poorly-or, omitted entirely in my education.

But, one of the biggest things I remember is spelling. I was always told (early on) use: "i before e except after c."

E.G., believe, pier, shield, wield, etc.

"receive" is a good example of ..."i before e except after c".

But, what about words like: heinous, seismic, seizure, weigh, weird, etc.? "i before e...except after c" doesn't work here.

What went wrong? Anybody know?

And, what were you taught that just isn't true?

:dunce:

[Zinfandel]

1. Milk is good for you.

[Taverner]

7. Ummm...it is

Low carb, excellent source of calcium, chock full of protein...

Best thing for a growing body, next to eggs. Soymilk is crap, nutrition wise. All sugar, no protein.

[NMDemDist2]

2. german vs french

english is a bastard language. the "i" before "e" only works in the latin based words. in the words we got from the scandinavians i think the rule is much more fluid.

that's what i heard once, sorry no link :)

[Old and In the Way]

3. A lot of History, US and World.

The earlier taught, the higher the distortion.

[bonemachine]

4. There's no correlation

Between any other genocide and what we did to the Native Americans.

[DAGDA56]

5. That's what spell check is for...but it isn't always accurate...

...when I type Lake Eola (downtown Orlando) spell check wants me to change to to Lake Ebola....not nearly as much fun, I suspect. The nuns taught me the second verse of the poem was except "when sounding like A, as in neighbor and weigh" Damn clever, those nuns.

[NMDemDist2]

6. dang that is clever

now i hope i can remember it

[havocmom]

8. "...with liberty and justice for all."

Not true then. Still not true.

[Rabrrrrrr]

9. One Nation, under God

gotta be the biggest lie.

Thankfully, i have to say, I never had any Christian jingoistic morans who actually tried to force the "rah rah America is Christian" BS line, and I am ever thankful to God that all my teachers were pretty sane that way.

But still, we did have to say the pledge in Kindergarten every day.

I'm also thankful that I did have a couple history teachers who did indeed call our relationship with the native americans as very, very wrong and evil on our part.

For growing up in such a socially conservative kind of blue collar town, I'm surprised at how many of my teachers were actually pretty good at teaching the truth and I never encountered any of the really weird stuff. Except for my high school physics teacher who mentioned a number of times that scientists had tracked the passage of the moon back through time and had determined that, indeed, there is a "missing" 6 hours or so correlating precisely with the time when Josghua stopped the sun in order to topple Jericho. But that was the only moranish thing my teacher ever went on about, and never attempted to tell us that evolution was wrong or anything else. He was just convinced there was scientiific evidence that the moon had stopped in it's orbit for however many hours were necessary.

Go figure.

Oh, and the other big lie I *did* hear a number of times was that Washington never told a lie, though I only ever heard that in elementary school, and by junior high my teachers were dispelling that myth.