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Noneroone:
It may sound a little bit misleading,
because this problem is not only limited
to Nigerian schools. It’s a worldwide
phenomenon occasioned by teachers,
lecturers and instructors who make no
effort to update themselves and add to
what they already know. These lies – at
least some of them – were facts at some
point in time, but things have since moved
on. Truths become lies as new discoveries
are being made.
Here are 16 lies that are still dished out the
world over even as you read this:

There are six classes of food: I was taught –
and I know most of you were taught – that
there are 6 classes of food, namely,
proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins, fats and
oil, minerals and water. It is no longer the
case. Officially, there are now SEVEN classes
of food: proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins
(or vegetables), fibers, fats and oil, minerals
and water. Fiber is derived from plants and
it was initially left out by nutritionists
because it seemingly does not add any
nutrient to the body. What fiber does that it
alters the way our gastrointestinal tract
absorbs food. Fiber itself is indigestible; it is
broken down in the large intestine not by
the body’s digestive system, but by the
trillions of bacteria that live there.

There are nine planets in the solar
system : Astronomers are regularly
discovering new planets all over the
universe. However, the number of planets in
our own solar system has been reduced
from nine to eight. This is due to the
declassification of Pluto as a planet. Pluto
was officially downgraded by astronomers
at the 26th General Assembly of the
International Astronomical Union which
was held in Prague, Czech Republic, in
2006. It is now a dwarf planet.
Astronomers found out that it is merely a
huge ball of ice and rock orbiting the Sun in
an area known as the Kuiper Belt. The
Kuiper Belt is located beyond the planet
Neptune (which is now the farthest planet
in the solar system) and it contains over
70,000 icy objects similar to Pluto. Pluto
happens to be one of the biggest of these
icy objects, but it’s not the biggest. The
biggest is Eris. Eris, a dwarf planet, is the
largest object in the Kuiper Belt. It’s about
25% more massive than Pluto.

There are four oceans: That was until the
year 2000 when the International
Hydrographic Organization concluded that
a distinct body of sea that completely
surrounds the continent Antarctica will be
the Earth’s fifth ocean. The exact
geographic coordinates of the salty water
are yet to be agreed upon, but most
sources will tell you that it lies to the south
of Australia, New Zealand and the tip of the
South American continent.

There are three states of matter: There are
several states of matter, in fact. According
to physicists, in addition to solid, liquid and
gaseous, plasma can be observed in
everyday life. Actually, scientists claim that
plasma is the most abundant form of
matter in the universe, because most of the
stars, including our own Sun, are in a
plasma state. Other states of matter include
the neutron-degenerate matter, Bose-
Einstein condensates, liquid crystals,
superfluids, quark-gluon plasmas, quantum
hall state, supersolid, string-net liquid,
superglass and dark matter. But these
forms of matter are very rare and some of
them have not been observed, but are
believed to exist.

Humans have only five senses: It turns out
that sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste
are not the only sensory responses human
beings exhibit. Human sensory receptors
can also respond to pain (nociception),
changes in temperature (thermoception),
changes in balance (equilibrioception),
position (proprioception), magnetic
direction (magnetoception) and the
passage of time (chronoception).


Humans evolved from apes: This is a great
lie and misconception that has been here
with us since the day Charles Darwin
published his controversial “On the Origin
of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or
the Preservation of Favoured Races in the
Struggle for Life.” According to this well-
known biological framework, human
beings and the modern-day apes evolved
from a single, now-extinct ancestor. As time
passed by, these ancestors of ours began to
evolve differently based on climatic,
nutritional, geographical and social
changes.

Mount Everest is the highest place on
earth :
Mount Everest is the highest
mountain in the world quite alright, but it’s
not the part of the world that is closest to
outer space. Here how it works: the Earth
does not have a perfectly round structure
like the world globes you’ll find in most
schools. Geographers call this anomaly an
oblate spheroid, which means that the
earth has a bulge towards the equator. As a
result of this bulge, places close to the
equator are


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Hawlahscho:
Not surprised sir.

Try harder and try to introduce your own religion as you're condemning other belief.




MODS!!!!!!!!! Here is another (religious but not righteous) guy, trying to derail here!!!! Judge ASAP!

How I wish I was a mod, your ban would be PERMANENTLY PERMANENT.

onegig:
You foget that there is a difference between traits and experience. What the jew had was an experience and not a trait. The trait passed on by parents typify how a child would respond to an action or event.

makzeze:
u dey craze? Didnt u see his source' sahara reporters'

Mcbussy:
Yes,but d experience of a child plays more part in defining his/her personilty.

If u raise a child in a ghetto and extremely violent environment....he will most likely be delinquent no matter how noble,cultured and civilised the parents are.

Some parents in bad neighbourhoods refuse to let their kids socialise for a reason.

The truth is that if we keep up this argument,it will never end....I believe d nature vs nurture argument is older than Psychology itself.

PAGAN9JA:
I dey oo..just busy with some work.

hw far?

nobilis:
Lol. Bros u dey vex oo.
I didn't see the source until he posted the completion of the post. That's why I thought it was his own research. But at least, he did well by sharing it with us sha.

Rilwayne001:
Good so far my kind sire...Good

DesChyko:
I won't say you're wrong.
I always ask this question to any class that I intend to start Speech Work with.
I had stints as a teacher and I discovered this when I assess what we call 'Previous Knowledge' before we teach any subject.
Do the same and document your answers.

PAGAN9JA:
YOU ARE NOT a MOD and you will never be. hahaha

Hawlahscho:
lol

better pray I don't be, else, I won't ban only your account but also your IP.

onegig:
I understand you but in your earlier post you were talking about the next generation of jews hating the Germans. Which infers from what you said that experience can be passed down to an unborn offspring. Only traits can be passed down not experience because its not built into the genes.

nobilis:
OP, no school ever taught that Faraday invented electricity. At least I'm very sure that what I was taught in school was that Faraday discovered electricity.

There has always been a difference between discovery and invention and my primary school teachers always made sure we knew about that difference.

PAGAN9JA:
keep dreaming. its good to dream. .

Mcbussy:
Okay,I get ur point...nobody can be too sure,but so far,nobody has ever come out to prove he has his parents memories. No scientific finding has proven it. If there's any,then u can please share d link cos I would love to learn new things.

I have never seen and recognised my parents childhood friends without an introduction from my parents. I have never had flashbacks of events that happened to my parents b4 I was born. I don't know about u,but for me,I didn't inherit my parents memory.

Well,I don't think u can relate cognitive functioning to memory. Its more like a processing power, its more like intelligence,and its quite different from memory.

The exact memory "tabula rasa" is about is the child's own experience. Not the ability to reason very critically or the fast thinking that's usually passed from intelligent parents to their offsprings.

Hawlahscho:
You've not seen dreams coming through b4 right? that means you never dreamt.

DeeMain:
Like I told you earlier, I agree with most of the points u made, it was just that small point... It was too general for me.

Also, while we may not remember our parent's memories that way, I believe we subconsciously remember a lot of things in some form:life lessons, trauma, things that hurt our parents, limiting beliefs, empowering beliefs and perception. The similarities in family traits, patterns, compulsions, addictions, dysfunctions can only mean that some sort of memories are 'remembered' and passed on.

I believe children carry memories/pain of their parent's or grand parent's trauma in some form. I see this in therapy every time. I am a therapist.

Our body has records of these things in some form. Our body is a biographer.

Mcbussy:
Well, I guess that is ur finding...I have never really worked on d subconscious mind. I am a Psychologist and Social worker.

What kind of therapist are you?... if you don't mind.

DeeMain:
Ok, cool. I'm a Mind/Emotions/Health/ wellness Coach & Therapist

Mcbussy:
You are talking about insticts that are locked in the DNA of different species. That is still not what John Locke was talking about.

Infants don't learn to cry, suck on brëasts or objects,they just do because it has been programmed in the DNA of the specie. Those are the basic coping instincts u see in every mammal. I'm sure other animal classes have their own version of inborn instincts too.

Those are instincts and not the experience, memory and perception that the "tabula rasa" theory talks about.

Mcbussy:
that's great...keep it up

DeeMain:
Thanks man.

And you, great combo - psychology and social work. What does your work entail??