Things you were taught at school that are now wrong

Trug said:
In the 1960's I was told by my geography teacher that because of the North Sea gas due to be coming ashore and that we owned it that it would be free when we left school.
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It is in Qatar as gas heating is subsidised for Qataris
 
No talk of global warming in the 1970s and wind turbines were windmills used before we had electricity. They would never be seen again.

I remember reading (Limits to Growth book) many key physical resources would run out around the year 2000.
 
Oil and gas would run out by the end of the 20th century.

Rugby. 'Tackle low!'.
 
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Laughing said:
The angles of a triangle always add up to 180 degrees and electricity travels in wires.

In fact most of what you get taught in science is so simplified as to be wrong.
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These aren't things that have changed and are now wrong though, they were always wrong. On a similar theme, all the rhymes you learn in English like "I before E except after C" which has far too many exceptions to be useful:

I before E...
...except in a zeitgeist of feisty counterfeit heifer protein freight heists reining in weird deified beige beings and their veiny and eidetic atheist foreign schlockmeister neighbors, either aweigh with feigned absenteeism, seized by heightened heirloom forfeitures (albeit deigned under a kaleidoscope ceiling weighted by seismic geisha keister sleighs) or leisurely reimbursing sovereign receipt or surveillance of eight veiled and neighing Rottweilers, herein referred to as their caffeinated sheik's Weimaraner poltergeist wieners from the Pleiades.
 
Nano said:
These aren't things that have changed and are now wrong though, they were always wrong. On a similar theme, all the rhymes you learn in English like "I before E except after C" which has far too many exceptions to be useful:

I before E...
...except in a zeitgeist of feisty counterfeit heifer protein freight heists reining in weird deified beige beings and their veiny and eidetic atheist foreign schlockmeister neighbors, either aweigh with feigned absenteeism, seized by heightened heirloom forfeitures (albeit deigned under a kaleidoscope ceiling weighted by seismic geisha keister sleighs) or leisurely reimbursing sovereign receipt or surveillance of eight veiled and neighing Rottweilers, herein referred to as their caffeinated sheik's Weimaraner poltergeist wieners from the Pleiades.
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You are right they have always been wrong. Borolad will probably give me a ban now!
 
NorthumberlandBoro said:
Bad behaviour deserves the cane.
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And bullying was allowed. The vicar at the school had a cane himself if I recall correctly. Sociopaths and sadists were in control and if they had a bad day at home we would suffer at school. The 70s was a brutal era, the film Kes captures it perfectly. I hope those teachers found some remorse and humanity as they neared their graves and sought forgiveness.
 
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