I remember in school we were taught that the tongue has different areas for different tastes and also that electrons orbit a nucleus in a nice round fashion as planets orbit a sun. Both of these teachings of course are complete bollocks. They actually disproved that there are separate areas on the tongue for different tastes and instead you can taste with any part of the tongue that has taste buds on it. As for what we were taught about atoms it is actually impossible to track the orbit of an electron around a nucleus.
I found particularly with science subjects that when you get to advanced level you have to unlearn a lot of falsehoods that you have been fed in the earlier years. Though science is not the only subject where I have later discovered I had been lied to in.
This led me to wonder if any of you fellow forum dwellers can think of things you were taught in school which were untrue.
I found particularly with science subjects that when you get to advanced level you have to unlearn a lot of falsehoods that you have been fed in the earlier years. Though science is not the only subject where I have later discovered I had been lied to in.
This led me to wonder if any of you fellow forum dwellers can think of things you were taught in school which were untrue.