Things you learned at school which aren't true...

[KingKhanWC]

Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492.

Columbus discovered that the Earth wasn't flat.

Germany was evil reason for WW1.

Henry Ford invented the automobile.

Chameleons change colour for camouflage

 

[Technics 1210]

Russia was responsible for the Cold War (When it was USA who first parked nukes in Turkey).

The Holocaust (exaggerated in history books)

Amreeka is a force for world peace.

Capitalism.

 

[Itachi]

Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492.

Columbus discovered that the Earth wasn't flat.

Which school you went?

 

[Giannis]

Coincidentally, I just came across this article which really changed my perspective on our perception of the world and how a lot of the concepts we've been ingrained with are from a very Euro (Anglo) centric culture and that's how they retain their power over us.

https://wemountains.com/12/08/1998/

 

[Itachi]

Coincidentally, I just came across this article which really changed my perspective on our perception of the world and how a lot of the concepts we've been ingrained with are from a very Euro (Anglo) centric culture and that's how they retain their power over us.

https://wemountains.com/12/08/1998/

From the article:

"By believing in print-based religions, people started worrying about the sanctity of printed words and their interpretations instead of observing and carrying out practices that maintain harmony, the goal of all “religions”."

TRUE WORDS.

more over, religion becoming a tool to retain power over the mass by diverting their focus. This article hits the nail on the head.

 

[hoshiarpurexpress]

1. Religion promotes peaceful co-existence.
2. Pythagoras Theorem was discovered in Greece.

 

[uberkoen]

Russia was responsible for the Cold War (When it was USA who first parked nukes in Turkey).

The Holocaust (exaggerated in history books)

Amreeka is a force for world peace.

Capitalism.

How was the holocaust exaggerated in history books?

 

[uberkoen]

Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492.

Columbus discovered that the Earth wasn't flat.

Germany was evil reason for WW1.

Henry Ford invented the automobile.

Chameleons change colour for camouflage

I'm not sure what school you went to but honestly, it must have been absolutely horrible if that's the things they were teaching you because I never learned this in my school.

 

[uberkoen]

Russia was responsible for the Cold War (When it was USA who first parked nukes in Turkey).

The Holocaust (exaggerated in history books)

Amreeka is a force for world peace.

Capitalism.

The cold war started immediately after the 2nd world war and had a lot to do with Russia's influence in eastern Europe as opposed to the nukes that you speak of.

 

[uberkoen]

1. Religion promotes peaceful co-existence.
2. Pythagoras Theorem was discovered in Greece.

Pythagoras was Greek. What are you talking about?

 

[hoshiarpurexpress]

Pythagoras was Greek. What are you talking about?

There is debate whether the Pythagorean theorem was discovered once, or many times in many places, and the date of first discovery is uncertain, as is the date of the first proof. Historians of Mesopotamian mathematics have concluded that the Pythagorean rule was in widespread use during the Old Babylonian period (20th to 16th centuries BC), over a thousand years before Pythagoras was born.[69][70][71][72] The history of the theorem can be divided into four parts: knowledge of Pythagorean triples, knowledge of the relationship among the sides of a right triangle, knowledge of the relationships among adjacent angles, and proofs of the theorem within some deductive system.

Written between 2000 and 1786 BC, the Middle Kingdom Egyptian Berlin Papyrus 6619 includes a problem whose solution is the Pythagorean triple 6:8:10, but the problem does not mention a triangle. The Mesopotamian tablet Plimpton 322, written between 1790 and 1750 BC during the reign of Hammurabi the Great, contains many entries closely related to Pythagorean triples.

In India, the Baudhayana Shulba Sutra, the dates of which are given variously as between the 8th and 5th century BC,[73] contains a list of Pythagorean triples and a statement of the Pythagorean theorem, both in the special case of the isosceles right triangle and in the general case, as does the Apastamba Shulba Sutra (c. 600 BC). Van der Waerden believed that this material "was certainly based on earlier traditions". Carl Boyer states that the Pythagorean theorem in the Śulba-sũtram may have been influenced by ancient Mesopotamian math, but there is no conclusive evidence in favor or opposition of this possibility.[74]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_theorem


I should have added Fibonacci Sequence as well.



he Fibonacci numbers were first described in Indian mathematics,[2][3][4] as early as 200 BC in work by Pingala on enumerating possible patterns of Sanskrit poetry formed from syllables of two lengths. They are named after the Italian mathematician Leonardo of Pisa, later known as Fibonacci, who introduced the sequence to Western European mathematics in his 1202 book Liber Abaci.[5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number

 

[Robert]

I must have gone to a better school than you guys.

 

[DeadlyVenom]

I don't think I learned any of the untruths mentioned in this thread.

For history we focussed mainly on Scottish History and WW2. WW1 and the British Empire wasn't covered in much detail. Columbus was barely mentioned

After the first couple of years of secondary school my curriculum was tailored to focus more on STEM classes, where there is less opportunity for subjectivity.

 

[sweep_shot]

I wouldn't say I have learned fake things in school. But, I have definitely learned many useless things.

I think education system needs to be more practical. Even western education system is way too theory-based and often lacks practicality.

 

[IMMY69]

I wish I had gone to school in these times...
It would have taught me to take things you read on the internet with a massive pinch of salt.

 

[Robert]

I wish I had gone to school in these times...
It would have taught me to take things you read on the internet with a massive pinch of salt.

Well played, sir.

 

[Robert]

The cold war started immediately after the 2nd world war and had a lot to do with Russia's influence in eastern Europe as opposed to the nukes that you speak of.

1947 I would say, due to the Berlin Wall and the annexation of Poland, Yugoslavia etc.

 

[Technics 1210]

Russia was responsible for the Cold War (When it was USA who first parked nukes in Turkey).

The Holocaust (exaggerated in history books)

Amreeka is a force for world peace.

Capitalism.

Adding Darwinism to the list.

Right up there as far as falsehoods taught in school.

 

[Technics 1210]

What many fail to realise is that schools, certainly in the West, do not teach a child how to be objective or teach a child how to think; but instead indoctrinate a child with a viewpoint/perspective. Ask an adult their view of WW1/2 in the UK and it will be very different to the view from an adult in the SC. In the USA children are taught that America stands for freedom, they are not taught of the countless wars America has embarked on and some of them on proven false flags.

We are only taught the subjective history highlights reel in school along with why one ideology is better than the other.

Thank god for the internet, it provides all the information and the onus is on the reader to make up their own mind.

 

[Robert]

What many fail to realise is that schools, certainly in the West, do not teach a child how to be objective or teach a child how to think; but instead indoctrinate a child with a viewpoint/perspective. Ask an adult their view of WW1/2 in the UK and it will be very different to the view from an adult in the SC. In the USA children are taught that America stands for freedom, they are not taught of the countless wars America has embarked on and some of them on proven false flags.

We are only taught the subjective history highlights reel in school along with why one ideology is better than the other.

Thank god for the internet, it provides all the information and the onus is on the reader to make up their own mind.

They taught me to think objectively, but that was a long time ago. Explain a hypothesis, explain a counter-hypothesis and come down on one side explaining why.

Now they just teach kids to pass exams.

 

[KingKhanWC]

I'm not sure what school you went to but honestly, it must have been absolutely horrible if that's the things they were teaching you because I never learned this in my school.

Maybe you werent paying attention.

Schools around the world have different teachings of history.

Here is a recent article from the Times. Scottish government officials perhaps paid attention like I did.

Children must no longer be taught that Columbus “discovered America” and should learn more about minorities who fought alongside the British Army, Scottish government officials have said.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/dont-tell-racist-columbus-story-schools-are-urged-qtkt3lc68

 

[KingKhanWC]

Also remember being taught , the Pilgrims settlers went to the 'new word' on the Mayflower. Started a great new nation in a new land etc

Truth is its not a new land and the settlers soon started to cleanse this new land of the natives who have lived there for a long time.

 

[KingKhanWC]

What many fail to realise is that schools, certainly in the West, do not teach a child how to be objective or teach a child how to think; but instead indoctrinate a child with a viewpoint/perspective. Ask an adult their view of WW1/2 in the UK and it will be very different to the view from an adult in the SC. In the USA children are taught that America stands for freedom, they are not taught of the countless wars America has embarked on and some of them on proven false flags.

We are only taught the subjective history highlights reel in school along with why one ideology is better than the other.

Thank god for the internet, it provides all the information and the onus is on the reader to make up their own mind.

Its deliberate brainwashing imo. Clearly the people who put this in place know the truth.

Here's another Alexander Bell invented the telephone. No he didnt.

 

[DRsohail]

We won all wars against India.

 

[topspin]

William Harvey discovered pulmonary circulation.

 

[Local.Dada]

It would be nice to see concrete facts to counter the alleged pseudo science and history taught in schools.

I mean I learnt first man to land on the moon was in 1964 or Tajmahal was built ground up by Shahjahan but I can’t rubbish my school based on some compelling theories that counter that on YouTube can I?

 

[KingKhanWC]

It would be nice to see concrete facts to counter the alleged pseudo science and history taught in schools.

I mean I learnt first man to land on the moon was in 1964 or Tajmahal was built ground up by Shahjahan but I can’t rubbish my school based on some compelling theories that counter that on YouTube can I?

A lot of its common knowledge now. You do accept Columbus wasnt the first to discover America?


Here's another... Winston Churchill is a hero in the UK. He's actually hated in Wales and other parts of the UK.

 

[Technics 1210]

A lot of its common knowledge now. You do accept Columbus wasnt the first to discover America?


Here's another... Winston Churchill is a hero in the UK. He's actually hated in Wales and other parts of the UK.

That's a good one actually, Winston Churchill is described a hero in English school text books but never described as a drunk and racist - which he blatently was.

 

[KingKhanWC]

That's a good one actually, Winston Churchill is described a hero in English school text books but never described as a drunk and racist - which he blatently was.

From what I can recall, we were only ever taught he won the war against Nazi Germany. Truth is if Paul Chuckle was the PM, the outcome would have been the same.

His policies of the Bengal famine were never taught either.

 

[Technics 1210]

From what I can recall, we were only ever taught he won the war against Nazi Germany. Truth is if Paul Chuckle was the PM, the outcome would have been the same.

His policies of the Bengal famine were never taught either.

Britain did not win the war. This is a lie taught in school. The coalition won the war (USA with help of Russia). We are not taught these facts at school. UK was down about and the Russians bailed the brits. USA refused to enter the war but Zionists made sure they did through false flag attack.

Balfour agreement is not taught either!

 

[Halaribo]

I worry about the schools some of you went to

 

[Local.Dada]

That's a good one actually, Winston Churchill is described a hero in English school text books but never described as a drunk and racist - which he blatently was.

Do Pakistani text books mention some of the vices that are considered unislamic which Mr.Jinnah supposedly had?

I am not trying to antagonize you for the sake of it.

Churchill is considered a hero because he was in charge when Britain were on the winning side during the world war. That’s about it.

It’s foolish to teach elementary school children the entire personality profile of Churchill. It’s kept simple. That doesn’t make it wrong history.

 

[Robert]

From what I can recall, we were only ever taught he won the war against Nazi Germany. Truth is if Paul Chuckle was the PM, the outcome would have been the same.

His policies of the Bengal famine were never taught either.

Had Halifax become PM instead of Churchill, Britain would have sued for peace in 1940. Britain would have become a Nazi client state. Germany and Russia would have slugged it out, USA would never have entered the war and Europe would have fallen under either fascist or communist totalitarianism.

So absolutely everything would have been different.

The “famine policy” is not taught because there was no famine policy. A typhoon devastated the harvest, and millions of refugees flooded into Bengal ahead of the Japanese advance. The British and Indian Armies cut the bridges to slow the Japanese advance, hampering famine relief from the other provinces, whose administrators hoarded food in the expectation that Japan would overrun India. By 1944 the British and Indian Armies advanced again, and the famine came under control.

 

[Technics 1210]

The “famine policy” is not taught because there was no famine policy. A typhoon devastated the harvest, and millions of refugees flooded into Bengal ahead of the Japanese advance. The British and Indian Armies cut the bridges to slow the Japanese advance, hampering famine relief from the other provinces, whose administrators hoarded food in the expectation that Japan would overrun India. By 1944 the British and Indian Armies advanced again, and the famine came under control.

Not true.

The Bengal famine of 1943 was the only one in modern Indian history not to occur as a result of serious drought, according to a study that provides scientific backing for arguments that Churchill-era British policies were a significant factor contributing to the catastrophe.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...43-bengal-famine-study?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

 

[Robert]

Not true.

The Bengal famine of 1943 was the only one in modern Indian history not to occur as a result of serious drought, according to a study that provides scientific backing for arguments that Churchill-era British policies were a significant factor contributing to the catastrophe.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...43-bengal-famine-study?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Your article also says pretty much what I said.

Food supplies to Bengal were reduced in the years preceding 1943 by natural disasters, outbreaks of infections in crops and the fall of Burma – now Myanmar – which was a major source of rice imports, into Japanese hands[/].

 

[Technics 1210]

Your article also says pretty much what I said.

Food supplies to Bengal were reduced in the years preceding 1943 by natural disasters, outbreaks of infections in crops and the fall of Burma – now Myanmar – which was a major source of rice imports, into Japanese hands[/].

Not really. What you have described explains cutting bridges from the East of Bengal, what you have not mentioned is how aid was refused despite months of requests and pleas from the Western side through British military channels. Churchill refused.

Beginning as early as December 1942, high-ranking government officials and military officers (including John Herbert, the Governor of Bengal; Viceroy Linlithgow; Leo Amery the Secretary of State for India; General Claude Auchinleck, Commander-in-Chief of British forces in India,[215] and Admiral Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Commander of South-East Asia[216]) began requesting food imports for India through government and military channels, but for months these requests were either rejected or reduced to a fraction of the original amount by Churchill's War Cabinet. The colony was also not permitted to spend its own sterling reserves, or even use its own ships, to import food.[218] Although Viceroy Linlithgow appealed for imports from mid-December 1942, he did so on the understanding that the military would be given preference over civilians.[Q] The Secretary of State for India, Leo Amery, was on one side of a cycle of requests for food aid and subsequent refusals from the British War Cabinet that continued through 1943 and into 1944.[219] Amery did not mention worsening conditions in the countryside, stressing that Calcutta's industries must be fed or its workers would return to the countryside. Rather than meeting this request, the UK promised a relatively small amount of wheat that was specifically intended for western India (that is, not for Bengal) in exchange for an increase in rice exports from Bengal to Ceylon.[K]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943

 

[Technics 1210]

* The Famine Policy is actually known as the Denial Policy.

 

[Robert]

It’s safe to say that Churchill turned his back but I am unsure what he could have done had he even cared. How to get a relief convoy to India when the IJN controlled the Indian Ocean - remember what happened to Repulse and Renown - and Rommel was in the way in North Africa?

Britain was a month away from starvation herself due shipping losses in the Battle of the Atlantic, and every bag of grain that could be spared was going to Russia.

 

[Robert]

Britain did not win the war. This is a lie taught in school. The coalition won the war (USA with help of Russia). We are not taught these facts at school. UK was down about and the Russians bailed the brits.

Britain was pivotal in the Allies’ winning WW2.

In 1941, the Murmansk convoys helped USSR to keep going. Remember that the German advance was halted just thirty miles from Moscow. Every spare British rifle, fighter, truck, tank and grain sack helped keep USSR fighting. That was before US involvement.

Britain them became an unsinkable aircraft carrier. With the RAF and USAAF bomber fleets hitting German cities round the clock, the Nazi war machine was damaged which shortened the war.

The British and Canadians sent 50% more soldiers in on D-Day than the USA did, and liberated the Netherlands.

On the Subcontinent the British and Indian Army kept the Imperial Japanese out of India, sparing the Indians from the slaughter perpetrated in China and Korea. It could be argued that dead is dead and the Empire’s failure to control the famine was as bad - but the ten million slave labour death tolls in China and Korea say otherwise to me.

 

[ElRaja]

had the usual stuff about kings and empire, but my guyanese history teacher felt it was important for us to watch Roots to understand the other side of empire.

have to say i went to a terrible school, but some of the teachers really did care about imparting knowledge of the kids, rather than just trying to get enough information in their heads to pass the exams.

the only real untruth taught at school i believe was that people will care about ur gcse grades. they should have been honest and just said it was a means to get into the better colleges.

Adding Darwinism to the list.

Right up there as far as falsehoods taught in school.

we were taught evolution but we did have open debates on it. the muslim and christian science teachers themselves were evolution skeptics so they encouraged it.

 

[Technics 1210]

Britain was pivotal in the Allies’ winning WW2.

In 1941, the Murmansk convoys helped USSR to keep going. Remember that the German advance was halted just thirty miles from Moscow. Every spare British rifle, fighter, truck, tank and grain sack helped keep USSR fighting. That was before US involvement.

Britain them became an unsinkable aircraft carrier. With the RAF and USAAF bomber fleets hitting German cities round the clock, the Nazi war machine was damaged which shortened the war.

The British and Canadians sent 50% more soldiers in on D-Day than the USA did, and liberated the Netherlands.

On the Subcontinent the British and Indian Army kept the Imperial Japanese out of India, sparing the Indians from the slaughter perpetrated in China and Korea. It could be argued that dead is dead and the Empire’s failure to control the famine was as bad - but the ten million slave labour death tolls in China and Korea say otherwise to me.

I agree Britain was pivotal but Britain didn't win the 2 WWs single handedly. This is the point. In both wars help from USA and Russia was needed.

 

[Technics 1210]

It’s safe to say that Churchill turned his back but I am unsure what he could have done had he even cared. How to get a relief convoy to India when the IJN controlled the Indian Ocean - remember what happened to Repulse and Renown - and Rommel was in the way in North Africa?

Britain was a month away from starvation herself due shipping losses in the Battle of the Atlantic, and every bag of grain that could be spared was going to Russia.

Funny that. Britain could get weapons and ammunition through the same channels, but not food.

 

[James]

I agree Britain was pivotal but Britain didn't win the 2 WWs single handedly. This is the point. In both wars help from USA and Russia was needed.

I think people generally agree with this and are aware of it. The WW2 victory was a joint effort from the Allies around the world, led by the “big three” of Russia, Britain, and the US. I learned about this at school when I was 14.

 

[MenInG]

I think people generally agree with this and are aware of it. The WW2 victory was a joint effort from the Allies around the world, led by the “big three” of Russia, Britain, and the US. I learned about this at school when I was 14.

Britain fought on valiantly and it was Churchill's defiance that opened eyes of the USA to the Nazi menace in Europe.

 

[Technics 1210]

Britain fought on valiantly and it was Churchill's defiance that opened eyes of the USA to the Nazi menace in Europe.

US government turned away Jewish immigrants fleeing Nazi Germany 1939. USA were fully aware of Nazi menace in in Europe - who do you think supplied the Nazis with the technology to count Jewish lives? IBM.

Is this taught in schools? Thought so.

 

[Technics 1210]

I think people generally agree with this and are aware of it. The WW2 victory was a joint effort from the Allies around the world, led by the “big three” of Russia, Britain, and the US. I learned about this at school when I was 14.

What was the name of the history book you studied in school?

I can assure you schools in London were teaching Brits had won the war single handedly (during the 80s syllabus) - most likely because by that time the British Empire was all but history and any reason to prop up up the power of the Empire was invoked.

 

[Technics 1210]

Oh I forgot the kicker. For those of you annoiting Chruchill for sainthood, let the record reflect, He LOST the election in 1945 months before WW2 ended, and handed power to Labour!

So much for being a ‘war hero’, Churchill’s popularity was a myth; the people saw through him and his fraudulent, drunkard, racist leadership.

Look up bombing of Dresden for clues why.

 

[James]

What was the name of the history book you studied in school?

I can assure you schools in London were teaching Brits had won the war single handedly (during the 80s syllabus) - most likely because by that time the British Empire was all but history and any reason to prop up up the power of the Empire was invoked.

It was the 00s AQA syllabus under New Labour, in the North of England.

At KS3 we learned about WW1, and at GCSE it was the Great Depression in the US, the British and German home fronts in WW2, and then the Soviet advance through Eastern Europe, leading to the partition of Germany/Berlin and the early events of the Cold War.

I didn’t like school, but I enjoyed History.

 

[Technics 1210]

On another note, USA employeed Nazi scientists post WW2; one of them most famous, you’ve heard the brand - Braun. Named after the Nazi, Wernher von Braun.

Thus proving Christians are far more anti-Semitic than any other people. The Bible is clear on the views of Jews too. You only need to read up on what Jesus PBUH though of Jews. From Shylock to the destruction of money changers at the temple of Solomon. Better known as as the narration ‘cleansing of the Temple’. It’s all in the Bible folks.

Are we taught these facts in school? No.

 

[Technics 1210]

It was the 00s AQA syllabus under New Labour, in the North of England.

At KS3 we learned about WW1, and at GCSE it was the Great Depression in the US, the British and German home fronts in WW2, and then the Soviet advance through Eastern Europe, leading to the partition of Germany/Berlin and the early events of the Cold War.

I didn’t like school, but I enjoyed History.

This makes sense now. In my time at school, the only way to counter a teacher or to valuate a teacher was to go to the library and read books. Books that were selective in nature. In the 00s this change with the advent of the internet. There’s more information available on the internet than is taught at schools/available in a local library; thus the change of syllabus from 80s to 00s. Information taught at schools could now be verified with ease. No more spoonfed propaganda thus dynamic changes in the syllabus.

No longer can a teacher claim a historical event is true based on words alone, when images and videos are available on the internet.

Were you ever taught Anne Frank’s diary? If yes, ask yourself why the diary of one random individual makes it to the syllabus; but the diaries of those who suffered during the partition of the SC do not?

I too enjoy history - in the words of DJ Aphrodite - he who controls the present controls the past, he who controls the past, controls the future.

 

[Saj]

Western governments always tried to broker peace between feuding nations.

 

[moghul]

If you read and write you will be king

If busy playing all the time , will ruin your life.

Parro gey likho gey , bano geu Nawab, Khelo gey , koodo gey hogey kharab : totally wrong.

 

[JaDed]

Guessing this thread is a dig at western countries by desis living in west lol.

 

[Kaddy]

We won all wars against India.

I don't think it was taught. We were told that we won in 1965 but lost in 1971 due to Shaikh Mujeeb and India's conspiracy. Whereas in reality the real culprit was our own Army (as usual).

 

[Cpt. Rishwat]

Guessing this thread is a dig at western countries by desis living in west lol.

Desi actually means homegrown doesn't it? So where else would they live?

If you mean brown British people, then they are as entitled to question school history as anyone else, although I do understand some have a colonised mindset where they may think it sacrilege to speak up as a "desi".

 

[Major]

Reading the first few posts, makes me wonder whether if those things are really untrue, or just concepts or events you just dont want to believe do to religious affiliations and hate for west.

Holocaust, Darwanism for example mentioned by some here.

 

[Major]

Guessing this thread is a dig at western countries by desis living in west lol.

exactly.

Whats even more hilarious that people with no research of there self disapproving Darwin's theory..

 

[Cpt. Rishwat]

Reading the first few posts, makes me wonder whether if those things are really untrue, or just concepts or events you just dont want to believe do to religious affiliations and hate for west.

Holocaust, Darwanism for example mentioned by some here.

Maybe you should read further few posts as well, there are some questioning what is taught in Pakistan schools also. This is healthy in it's own right, not everything should be taken at face value.

 

[Cpt. Rishwat]

When I went to school we didn't really learn much about the rest of the world at all ,if we are talking history anyway. Mostly it was about various English monarchies, something about Tudors and Protestants, something about Britain not losing a war since 1066, and that's about all I can remember.

 

[PakLFC]

The Mercury to Pluto planets we were brainwashed with. There are dozens more no doubt about it.

 

[RexRex]

Nothing really. India school systems are remarkably neutral on most of the contentitious issues of the world that merit discussion. Even on Pakistan, with whom India has fought four wars.

 

[PakLFC]

Christ the king of the Jews was a white man with long blonde hair and blue eyes. He was born on Dec 25 Santa gives gifts to good kid's at the end of the year He didn't give me anything this year!