I have always wondered why I was taught in school for so long and it turns out that apparently lots of other people were taught this too.
The only reason I can think if that we were raight that blood in the body is blue is because our veins look blue. But does anyone know where that myth came from or why kids are still being taught this today?
Some teachers have no idea about things and still try to teach them. They aren’t different from other people there.
We were taught a lot of stupid shit in elementary school, because the teacher was a crank and proud of it. I remember vividly how he tried to explain the density anomaly of water (to ten year olds) by saying that atoms in solid objects move faster than in liquids and therefore need more space. I didn’t believe one word of it.
I remember my second grade teacher saying that stars aren’t actually suns, they are just specs of light in the sky, and they don’t get much bigger once you get close up to them. In hindsight I’m baffled that someone with such a simplistic worldview actually managed to meet the educational requirements for being a teacher.