The fibs your teacher told you in school [golden thread]

I always got the well known 'Stop rocking on your chair, I once had a student who fell off doing that and cracked their skull open' - this came from about 5 different teachers in my high school!

Our English teacher made a mistake equal to the infamous blunder of Michael Fish in 1987 when he said there wasn't going to be a hurricane, and then that night there was 122mph winds. She said Slim wouldn't be the character option for of mice and men on the aqa English lit paper, and Slim was the character option and I'm pretty sure 28 people failed that exam

We always got that (especially me) and never believed it but then it actually happened to a boy in my sisters class who had to be rushed to hospital... Don't think anyone swings on chairs in her class anymore 😁

In primary school, we got told that we could taste different things with different areas of my tongue. When I got home and was given food I didn't like, I would try avoid putting it on the area I would taste...

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I remember being in reception, so only about 4 or 5, and our teacher told us that a rocket was going to the moon that day and if we worked really really quietly we'd be able to hear it take-off..

It totally worked. We were silent for the whole day, but never did hear that rocket go off.



What are the fibs your teachers told you at school to get you to be quiet, or stop asking silly questions?


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"Albert Einstein failed Maths" - IT'S NOT TRUE

I've heard that too! Is it not true?

How can the person who developed general relativity not be good at maths. Makes no sense.

Yeah but there are plenty of clever people who've failed exams/not gotten to a high level of education for one reason or another, like Steve Jobs didn't have a degree or anything!

That's true. But these people didn't fail exams directly linked to their career. How can you fail maths and be good at physics? I don't know who made this up or why?

Einstein laughed. "I never failed in mathematics," he replied, correctly. "Before I was fifteen I had mastered differential and integral calculus." In primary school, he was at the top of his class and "far above the school requirements" in math. By age 12, his sister recalled, "he already had a predilection for solving complicated problems in applied arithmetic," and he decided to see if he could jump ahead by learning geometry and algebra on his own. His parents bought him the textbooks in advance so that he could master them over summer vacation. Not only did he learn the proofs in the books, he also tackled the new theories by trying to prove them on his own. He even came up on his own with a way to prove the Pythagorean theory.