Some children are taught in school that God created the earth. Some of us were allowed to learn that humans cannot effect climate change, allowed to discuss it openly, and allowed to graduate with that idea without ever being corrected. Children are being taught today that slavery and colonialism were good things for some people.

"This is the best time of your life, it will never be as easy."
I wasted more time at school than at work and I didn't have Fridays off, so that was a lie.

Gravity Waves didn't exist according to my highschool science teacher

Racism used to be a problem until Lincoln and MLK fixed it.

In my college Econ 101 class I was taught that "economic liberalism" would lead to political liberalism. I knew that was a myth back then, but my professors insisted. Twenty years later we've got economic nationalism and political fascism taking over everywhere.

I was taught that the moon landing was fake.

Junk DNA.

That adults are mature and know what they are doing.

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I learned that it’s not ok to be intelligent but completely incapable of remembering to do things or remembering the things that the teachers thought it was important for me to remember.

I dont remember anything that was proven false. I remember i butted heads with my history teachers constantly. Having history as my hyperfocus of my autism, and hyperactive talking from adhd, i had to correct one teacher a lot.

Saying the classic "the HRE was neither holy nore roman nore an empire" but nobody called it that back then. It was known as just "the empire". And the "holy" part was due to shenanigans with the pope, and it defenetly was an empire in the sense of span. Yes everything was autanomouse, but it was an empire by size of who swears loyalty.

I learned more that the things i back then saw as useless and "why are we being tought that" is actually really important. Example: text analysis if grammer, way of phrasing things, wether the autor clearly frames things threw choice of words, if it is a story, news article or comment

The moon was spun out of the same stuff as the earth. That was fact in the early years of my education. A few years later there were multiple theories: co development, captured a wandering planetoid, the Thea impact, and a fourth one I can’t remember but I think it was something dumb like planetary mitosis. By the time I graduated the Thea impact was considered the only viable theory.

That glass is a liquid at room temperature, just a very viscous one so it doesn't appear to flow. It's not. It's not a crystalline solid so it has an internal structure similar to a liquid, but the structure is definitely solid at room temperature because the components are not capable of moving relative to each other like a liquid would.

By the time I was in school the Bohr model was already proven inaccurate, but was taught anyway because the orbital model is too esoteric for teenagers 🙄.