I failed a test because I said there were only 8 planets and the "correct" answer was 9. The teacher didn't know Pluto had been demoted. Lol
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Sounds like they weren't updating their knowledge. We discover a new major solar system body on an average of every ten years now (the last time it was either Ceres or Sedna).
I wonder how the teacher will react to seeing the upcoming Planet 9 (or to them, Planet X) discovery (rumored to be a minor black hole, which honestly sounds terrifying).
Oh I had a similar experience in elementary school. Our teacher knew and told us that Pluto wasn't a planet anymore but because the textbook was out of date, she told us that if it came up on our tests, consider Pluto a planet anyway.
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I don't remember the specifics because it was damn near 40 years ago, but I had a teacher tell the class that everyone has a sort of 6th-sense sight through an invisible 3rd eye in the middle of your forehead. And her example was that blind people will pick out clothes by colors or tell someone they were wearing an ugly tie. Which I've never seen, at least not outside of some sort of Hallmark Romance Drama quality religious schlock.
I never had any problem correcting a teacher if they made some calculation error or misquoted something out of the book (I wasn't an asshole who corrected every single thing, just the ones that might be material to everyone else's understanding of the lesson).
But when confronted with a teacher spewing utter bullshit, I was at a total loss for a response. I can't imagine anyone else believed it, either, but what a fucking loon. My sister was/is blind and the only superhuman power she had was being fucking annoying.
I don't even know if that was the worst/only one, but that's the one that has always stood out for me.
I guess you could add that American Exceptionalism was taught as a legitimate point of view rather than nationalist bullshit.
Your teacher was full of shit, but we do have more than 5 senses. You know the taste, touch, smell, hearing, sight. There are two more everyone has:
Vestibular - sense of balance and movement in space (like falling).
Proprioception - you can sense where your arms and legs are relative to your body without looking or touch.
My sister was/is blind and the only superhuman power she had was being fucking annoying.
There's blind and there blind. Besides actual damage to the eye itself, most definitions of blind are loss of connection of the optic nerve to the visual cortex (the part of your brain which takes nerve pulses and translates them into vision). However recent science has found that even if there is a break/damage to the visual cortex, there are certain visual things that blind person can "see". The optic nerve makes a couple of stops along the way from the eye to the visual cortex, specifically the Amygdala in the brain. Many that are "visual cortex" blind can still know where someone's face is and even determine what mood they are in from their facial expression. They can also sometimes dodge object thrown at them. Both of these are Amygdala actions. Its not like they actually SEE the face or SEE the object being thrown, but they "know" if someone is upset or happy without that person even saying anything if their facial expression tells the story. Here's the science if you're interested in more.
Since reading these studies I've always been curious to talk to a blind person to have them describe their experience with this.
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RAM is memory inside the computer, ROM is memory on the disk (5.25" floppy)
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The Russians/Soviets have guard towers on every block who monitor which rooms citizens are in at any given moment. Absolutely no true freedom of movement, unlike those of us in the free world. At the time, I figured people could trick the guards by just not turning on lights in the room when they moved about. As the years went on, two questions came to mind: isn't that prohibitively expensive? and why???
Even North Korea never went that far.
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Drafting on computers won't be long term.
Shakespeare's plays were never printed in his lifetime, they were compiled from people who saw the plays live, went home, and wrote down what they remembered.
I wouldn't think there would've been enough literate people in those times to do that.
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My 6th grade science teacher interrupted me while reading aloud after I correctly pronounced "tsunami". He goes "What's that?....tuh-soo-mee?". I said Yeah, he spends 10 seconds digesting it, and I continue reading aloud.
The next kid to read after me pronounced it tuh-soo-mee.
I only pronounced つなみ like that with a t when I was young and first came across the word but then I learned the correct pronunciation
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If you study hard in school you can do anything.
Well, you can, you just won't be paid anything for it.
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"You'll enjoy ice skating, it's easy!" - the teacher who took our class to an ice rink... 😂
The moment I'm over the ice I become the human equivalent of a scruffed cat and people started pushing me around like I was a hockey puck and I was smiling pretending I was having fun but inside I was like
Was it an extracurricular activity, a field trip, or an actual part of class?
Sounds like my school and the local lido. "You'll get a grasp on what to do in no time" one could expect them to have said. Still waiting for "no time" to come and go.
first day of a new school year "what are you doing in this class, didn't we made you fail last year?"
I had bad grades but mathematically good enough to pass just barely. She was the Computer Science teacher and I proved her wrong more than once in front of the class. So yeah, she had a grudge.
"Made you" fail last year? Quite the wording...
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See you next year.
Edit: Oh, you mean actually wrong.