+255 It would suck to know a really advanced fact that your textbook or teacher disagreed with because you'd need to lie on a test to get the question right, amirite?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

if you got the question wrong on the exam you could just complain.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Personal story- When I was home from fourth grade with a cold my mother (a teacher) told me a story about a famous misquote in history, where there were two guys fighting on warships and one of them thought he'd just about succeeded in sinking the other, so he called across the water for his opponent to surrender. The guy yelled back that he might sink but he would not strike (lower his flag or surrender) but the other guy thought he said that he had not yet begun to fight, which he thought was a really poignant thing to say for some reason. So about half the textbooks in the world misquote him. Later in the year we actually came to that part in the history book, and I was really excited to see that we had one of the textbooks that misquoted him because now I got to share an interesting story with the teacher. Much to my dismay, she asked me incredulously if I really thought we could believe someone's mother over the word of a published textbook, and I spent the rest of the day sulking and telling anyone who would listen that my mother was a teacher at the local college and so obviously knew what she was talking about. It happened again in eighth grade, but I didn't say anything.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Last year in ap world history, both the teacher and the book said that hinduism is polytheistic, and I was the only one that knew that it is actually monotheistic.

by Anonymous 12 years ago