‘What were you taught in school that is now considered obsolete or incorrect?’ – 21 things you wasted years in the classroom learning

13.

‘Using cursive? Yes, it’s obsolete.

‘Learning cursive? That’s actually great for fine motor control.’
–Izikiel23

14.

‘That anyone can be president. It turns out that with one exception, only wealthy white men can be president.’
–DVDragOnIn

15.

‘My entire bachelor’s in computer science with the exception of SQL.’
–CardboardJ

16.

‘There’s no such thing as ‘learning styles’, e.g. visual learner, etc. All that stuff is pseudoscience and real learning theory is much more complex.’
–Haephestus

17.

‘God put dinosaur fossils in the ground to confuse scientists.’
–nashbar

18.

‘You’re born with all the brain cells you’ll ever have, and once cells die, that’s it.’
–WanderingCharges

19.

‘Pretty much the entire map east of France.’
–rusty_sailor

20.

‘In primary school I was taught that Captain Cook discovered Australia. Turns out Aboriginal people had been living here for tens of thousands of years.

‘But then in high school I was taught that Captain Cook was the first European to discover Australia, which is also wrong. A Dutch explorer, then a Spanish explorer, then a whole bunch of other European explorers came and went, then Cook rocked up and decided the place was worth colonising.’
–SammyGeorge

21.

‘You only use 10% of your brain. I still hear people repeating this one.’
–throwawaytoday9q

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