30 Facts People Learned In School That Are Now Disproven Because Science Moved Forward
Facts can and do change as new evidence comes to light—it’s a core part of what science is all about. As we learn more and more about how the world works, we have to update our existing bodies of knowledge.
This does, however, mean that some information that we learned in the classroom can become outdated within our lifetimes, as members of the r/ask online community recently shared in a viral thread. We’ve collected some of these internet users’ insights about what facts have changed since they learned them in school. Scroll down to read what they had to share.
High school’s gonna be the best four years of your life!” Reader, it was not the best four years of my life
#2 You can’t carry a calculator all day!
#3 Trickle down economics
#4 If you learn well, you`ll get a good job and will have a nice future. Total BS
#5 My teachers used to say “Video games will make you braindead.” Turns out video games were all about solving puzzles and problem solving and ended up increasing the cognitive abilities and critical thinking skills for children from a young age.
#6 The food pyramid
#7 Animals don’t use tools
#8 Grade school in the US, mid 1970s: We will be converting to the metric system soon.
#9 While I was in college biology our teacher said she was forced to teach us that cell walls were rigid because that’s what the text book said but, she told us, it was not true–the phospho-lipid cell wall had just been discovered. So we learned it wrong and corrected all at the same time
#10 That Christopher Columbus discovered America. Just ask native Americans about this one
