ITT: absurd lies they teach in grade school

>Islam is a peaceful religion

>and then the renaissance came and suddenly everyone was intelligent and logical, not like those stupid and superstitious medieval people

Mostly nationalist bullshit. It differs from country to country. Here in Belgium it was some bullshit about Godfrey de Bouillon being Belgian.

you can have separate classes within the same room

>Do they still teach children that columbus discovered that the Earth is round

What the fuck? Where does this happen? Also, people already believed the Earth was round before Magellan got on the boat, his journey just provided certainty.

He was though.

I should clarify. In Portugal, we're taught that Magellan prooved the Earth was round and that everyone still thought the Earth was flat until then, which is also bullshit.

Belgium didn't exist at the tim.

He is still Belgian technically, as he was born where Belgium is.

US won the vietnam war.

explain how this rule is bad

Yeah, but that feels like attributing Rome's accomplishments to the modern Italians. The culture is entirely different, isn't it?

>that feels like attributing Rome's accomplishments to the modern Italians

we ARE the romans tho

While there is nothing wrong with teaching us about the holocaust and how we reduced the jews, they could stop with the soapstorys by now its not the 50s anymore.

You sayin' us Iranians ain't Persians, boi?

I'm not gay but I always thought he looked better than Bateman. Gave less of a shit, too.

You got it backwards m8

Nah, bruh, you're gay

I'm pretty sure they still teach Columbus was also a good man, that definitely didn't do harm

>everyone is equal

In my country, during the Baroque era Church had their hands all over the school at every single grade, from child education all the way up to university, you might recognize this as the time when a certain Galilei got harassed by them.

To say the Church did nothing is just a silly contrarian extremism, they had their faults in during the middle ages AND later too.

>WW1 reparations caused WW2

Well perhaps more than anything else Versailles reparations were responsible for throwing a wrench in the global economy from which would ultimately spring the Great Depression which the NSDAP was able to exploit to rise to power.

>Okay class here's some roman history and then the dark ages happened so literally nothing happened in Europe during this time so we're skipping over it. The crusades happened but that was it
>okay class now we're moving onto the French Revolution where things started happening in Europe again

That changed a few years ago. By the time we got to columbus it was all about how he was a bad person that raped and enslaved the natives.

Hispaniola ain't free. Santo Domingo gotta be litterd with the blood of colonists.

>Galileo Galilei invented the telescope
>Graham Bell invented the telephone
>Thomas Edison invented the Light bulb completely by himself along with all the inventions associated with his name

Neither in elementary, nor in high school, nor in secondary high school my books or teacher made the time between the fall of the Roman empire and the modern age interesting.

Not saying it is not, just saying they could not make it sound so.

>Thomas Edison invented the Light bulb completely by himself
Yeah I was taught this as well

>I before E except after C
EXCEPT WHEN IN AYYY AS IN NEIGHBOUR AND WEIGH

>In my country, during the Baroque era Church had their hands all over the school at every single grade
Not to mention in them, too.

They do talk about the renaissance here but never enough so kids just believe it came out of nowhere and it basically meant that yurop smrt now.

so over 500 years after the ''''dark ages''''? Well done m8, very relevant

My AP Euro teacher made it sound pretty interesting and went really in depth, but in most other history classes they went over it like said.
>Everyone was really stupid after the sacking of rome and then Italians became smart out of nowhere

>we wuz explorers n shit

you saying my bicycle ain't an automobile?

Besides teaching bullshit, they also simply don't mention tons of crap. This leads to people believing that democracy died with the ancient greeks and republics were never a thing until like the 19th century, or that Italy existed during the medieval ages and wasn't fractured into a bunch of non-kingdoms.

I assume you're having a giggle, but a bicycle is literally not an automobile

It was assembled in an automobile factory

That's a weird exception

It doesn't hold up

Hitler killed everyone who didn't have blonde hair and blue eyes

Did they not come up with the autobahn?

...

That evolution is real.

All people are equal

Only whites owned slaves

Islam is a religion of peace

really? Because my teacher told me that Genesis is literal truth.

I'm from North Texas.

Louisiana born and raised. Elementary school taught a bit of evo, but then I got sent to a Christian HS.

Well school is teaching my little brother that the crusades were unprovoked aggression and that the crusaders ate people

well, you know that one time

Yeah I mean, shit happens during sieges. But supposedly they were LITERALLY bloodthirsty

well that's the funny thing about the crusades, they were legitimately a reaction to muslim incursion on the roman empire but then the crusaders went and attacked territory that had been muslim for hundreds of years instead of going to help the romans push back the muslims.

You can be anything you want.

What school did you even go to where Islam was mentioned?

The only time I learned anything about the middle east was when they started teaching about the gulf war.

The evil Europeans one day remembered Africa existed so they went there and enslaved everyone. Except [insert own country here], we were much more civilized than everyone else and only bought a few prisioners of war that would have been executed otherwise.

Fucking Oklahoma. Reddest state in the union and the teachers are still blue.

>implying
Our king, Leopold II, owned the ENTIRE Congo.
I took optional Christian education courses until I was out of highschool, which involved learning about the other religions of the world.

Leo was one of the better Kings we've had, all considered. Albert I died while going climbing. The country can't even agree how the new King's name is spelled, for fuck's sake.

Not Veeky Forums, but neither is language.
Local-College-equivalent:
>Entropy is the concept of increasing disorder

And then at university it turns out this idea is complete nonsense.

capitalism is good

That the Roman Empire Fell in early AD or CE for you hat tippers.

>pol pot
>communist

>Trajan is a Spaniard
>Diocletian is a Croat

Stop being retarded, besides Belgium or Belgians are not even a thing that exists in reality.

>Stalin was bad

They teach kids that he was Italian

>communism has never been tried
nice meme m8

You just embarrassed yourself.

I can't remember any except

>Warsaw Uprising was totally a good idea guise and Stalin's action couldn't have been predicted after Katyń and the exact same pattern of uprisings in Eastern Poland
>All partisans were noble and burning villages, train robberies, ethnic cleansings and collaboration with Wermacht was justified
>Communists have never ever enjoyed popular support

Other than that (historical revisionism and circle-jerking) Polish historical education is pretty god-tier. The weakest part is how little they talk about 19th century events in the grand scale, instead focusing only on our national history which is tedious to learn and frankly - we don't really need to learn the exact evolution of socialist movement in comparision to the agrarian one

>kulaks
>innocent

Lol

That doesn't make sense. So Kant was a Russian because Koenigsberg is now a part of Russia?

what did you get on the AP Euro test?

Not so much lie, but leave out things.

Like Washington had to deal with mutinies- and he slaughtered hundreds of colonials that were revolting against the well paid, well fed officers.

Hellen Keller was a socialist.

Government passed laws banning race mixing to both keep slaves and poor whites from teaming up vs rich slave owners and to keep property from going to slaves/freed blacks.

There were accounts of settlers digging up and eating corpses of natives- because they were starving, didn't have any food, and spent all their time digging for gold in a brutal winter.

>Good morning class, open your books it in the page 27 where you can see a picture where the natives live in pace and armony with the mother earth until the evil capitalist pigs europeans arrive with their over advance technology and literally kill them all the indefence natives with one shot

I believe the full version is "I before E except after C or when sounding like A as in neighbor or weigh" which works a lot better

>Seize their weird feisty foreign
>Species science sufficient Society
No

Every second of American history I've ever had in school.

A government run by Nazis cane up with the concept of the Autobahn and used their money and influence to make it a thing.
>but instead you want to take the Barack Obama approach and say it was only the workers who built it

Thats not common, sometimes they would do it in 4th or 5th grade with like 3 periods, to get them ready for middle school, which has 5-7 periods (7 and later 6 for me).

Nazis didn't come up with the concept of Autobahn, that was Weimar Germany. The first Autobahn was constructed in '32, a year before Hitler assumed power.

Now it's true that the Nazis greatly expanded the project, but they didn't invent it.

Hey, me too! Ofcourse the teachers are blue, my sister makes basically the same she made 10 years ago when she started teaching, because the Republicans don't want to come up with the money for paying the teachers. They won't increase taxes (or decrease spending in things that aren't education and health and human services) but this OPEC thing has the state in almost a billion dollar budget shortfall, more than they projected.

I don't think I was ever explained why WW2 happened. Kids are left to believe Hitler decided to invade Poland for fun or to kill more jews.

yes we all know the real reason was he saw this cartoon and said "Germany should have that too!"
youtube.com/watch?v=FfoQBTPY7gk

Hitler was elected in 1933.

No it isn't. It's largely focused on how Poland can't do no wrong, that the figures engaged often had wildly differing views, the neighbours were evil bastards. It also largely omits larger world context of local events.

So if you tell patriotically-minded people that Kosciuszko was an Enlightenment anti-clerical closely related to French Jacobins they freak out. Similar when you tell them that members of Targowica confederacy weren't sellout traitors. Or that the dudes who wrote our national anthem were freemasons.

Also, irrelevant events are lauded as the most important shit ever. Literally nobody considers the emperor Otton III to be of any importance, and the meeting at Gniezno is literally what tier.

should be:
>omitting that the figures engaged often had wildly differing views, claiming the neighbours were evil bastards just out to destroy Poland

Because there is literally more exceptions to the rule than their are words that follow it.
They gave an exact count on QI.

>Hitler had black hair and brown eyes.
I was unironically told this in grade school.

Although to their credit, we learned a lot about the Greeks, Phoenicians, Persians, Mesopotamia and Egypt (none of that we wuz bullshit too).

It was a landgrab, plain and simple.