Things you learned that they don't teach anymore

[Batman1980]

Originally Posted by Dexter Morgan

Manners and morals.

Supposed to learn those in the home, schools don't really teach that outside of college courses like ethics.

[PrivatePixel]

Originally Posted by brettallica

I love learning about space, though. I trip out (legally) about it all the time. Its vastness is just unfathomable to humans. I don't care what kind of numbers scientists put out there to "measure" the universe. Its size is beyond human comprehension.

I happen to think that the universe is both immeasurable and limitless in scope, and any perception that we have regarding its true scale is constrained by the tools available to us.

Wrapping one's head around the scale comparison of stars and planets is truly .

[Skunkape78]

Originally Posted by Dreemworx

Pluto is a planet imo, it's like saying short people are not human.

Short people are definitely not human!!! But I do agree that Pluto should be a planet...

[Dreemworx]

Originally Posted by PrivatePixel

I happen to think that the universe is both immeasurable and limitless in scope, and any perception that we have regarding its true scale is constrained by the tools available to us.

Wrapping one's head around the scale comparison of stars and planets is truly .

Very cool pics.

[Dreemworx]

Originally Posted by Skunkape78

Short people are definitely not human!!! But I do agree that Pluto should be a planet...

Oh no he di-unt.

;p

[brettallica]

Originally Posted by PrivatePixel

I happen to think that the universe is both immeasurable and limitless in scope, and any perception that we have regarding its true scale is constrained by the tools available to us.

Wrapping one's head around the scale comparison of stars and planets is truly .

You and I think similarly in this regard, for better or for worse (for sake of argument, I'm going with "for better").

The star comparisons are perfect examples of what I brought up, and on which you elaborated with those illustrations. There is really no way to "understand" just how massive those stars are. To think that those Cephei stars are only part of our own galaxy and take up a relatively small percentage of volume within it, and that there are (in all likelihood) many more of those types of stars in other galaxies — and many that are probably even larger than that — which are all contained within the universe...it's just phenomenal and mind-boggling to think/speculate how big the universe actually is.

[tilallr1]

Originally Posted by PrivatePixel

Very cool pics. The last one must explain how Super Blackholes form. Because when that thing goes Nova, it must take out a Galaxy.

[riseup21]

So, is Pistol Star... a shooting star?

[brettallica]

Originally Posted by riseup21

So, is Pistol Star... a shooting star?

Rimshot

[Lacit170]

got in an argument at the bar about what the Oceans were... needless to say, i was calling my friend an idiot for thinking there was more than...

Atlantic
Pacific
Arctic
Indian

the next day i went online to show him and it said... as of 2000, some regard the Antarctic Ocean (Souther Ocean) as a major ocean lol...

i still say theres 4

[bandit29]

Apparently they don't teach how to write English in high school nowadays. My wife's latest group of "gifted" young minds are turning in term papers with leet speak and emoticons..

[U4K61]

Originally Posted by riseup21

I'm 21 and can't write in cursive. We learned it and had to write in cursive the whole third grade

Ditto for me... all the knuckle bashing to write in script did not work out. I just do it in capital letters or use a keyboard.

Originally Posted by mikejet

Do they still teach Roman numerals?

As far as I know. The numerals are IVXLCDM with no zero. It has left us confused on weather 2000 or 2001 begins a new century. It would have been 2000 if they had invented zero when they first wrote out the Christian calendar.

Originally Posted by Gandalf Stormcrow

...still stunned at the number of people who can't read, write or do basic math.

Got to wonder how the 'no child left behind' policy is working out.

Originally Posted by riseup21

Growing up I was taught that Pluto was a planet.

Strange that as we found more stuff out there, we ended up with fewer planets. I think the list would have just grown to become too complex as we added new bodies. Demoting (134340)Pluto in the end was a good thing. Indeed, it is only the second-largest dwarf planet after Eris. Also, its accentric orbit is not like the other eight planets. Just did not fit in with the rest of the bunch.

Origin of the Universe - Stephen Hawking

• 1 of 5 10:03
• 2 of 5 9:39
• 3 of 5 9:31
• 4 of 5 9:49
• 5 of 5 8:28

Solar System

• Birth of the Solar System 2:55
• A Tour of the Solar System / Vangelis 4:49
• Our System 6:40
• Sistema Solar en español 4:00

Relativity In 5 Minutes 5:11

[Septimus Prime]

There were super-continents before Pangaea. I don't think they ever taught that in secondary school, but they should.

[brettallica]

Originally Posted by bandit29

Apparently they don't teach how to write English in high school nowadays. My wife's latest group of "gifted" young minds are turning in term papers with leet speak and emoticons..

That sickens me to the core. "Kids these days..." is something I suppose I can officially say now, even though I thought it'd never happen.

Coming soon are the ubiquitously old-timer staples of "when I was your age" and my personal favorite, "get off my lawn."

[proxpilot]

i learned that when i did something really bad i got paddled and learned my lesson. i know they dont teach that anymore!

[Suntory_Times]

Originally Posted by mikejet

I learned it in private school. When I went to public school they didn't expect students to know it or want kids turning in work written with it.

They didn't teach cursive where I went to school. In fact I got in quite a bit of trouble as that's how I already wrote (was reading writing well before I went to school), and refused to change it.

[U4K61]

Originally Posted by Septimus Prime

There were super-continents before Pangaea. I don't think they ever taught that in secondary school, but they should.

I have heard about three supercontinents in earth's history. Computer models on plate tectonics allows us to go to go back to about 1.4 billion years.

Ages in millions of years:
Rodinia(Russian, homeland) - 1,400
Gondwana(Sanskrit, forest of the Gonds) - 700
Pangea(Greek, entire earth) - 170



Earth's History

• The Early Earth and Plate Tectonics 5:17
• Las placas tectónicas 2:19
• Falla de San Andrés 3:03

[PrivatePixel]

Originally Posted by bandit29

Apparently they don't teach how to write English in high school nowadays. My wife's latest group of "gifted" young minds are turning in term papers with leet speak and emoticons..

I read a couple of columns on the subject. If I were an English instructor, I would be distressed; I would give them a failing grade as well. No child left behind, eh? I'll be happy to make arrangements.

This was the lead story in the local newspaper:
The Columbus Dispatch: When an A isn't enough

Despite earning good grades and taking honors courses in high school, many students find themselves ill-prepared for college. Some blame grade inflation or unrealistic expectations at the next level.

Yet, 39 percent of those graduates who attended a public college or university in Ohio had to take a remedial math class. Thirteen percent needed developmental English.

At Columbus State Community College, 32 percent of recent high-school graduates were not ready for college-level math, reading or writing last school year.

[Gaius Marius]

Originally Posted by PrivatePixel

I read a couple of columns on the subject. If I were an English instructor, I would be distressed; I would give them a failing grade as well. No child left behind, eh? I'll be happy to make arrangements.

This was the lead story in the local newspaper:
The Columbus Dispatch: When an A isn't enough

Wow, that is bad

It is all about not making kids feel bad these days.... However, how big of a blow to your slef esteem would it be to be told you need remedial math and/or English?

I'll add something not taught in (public) school: Evolution

[Septimus Prime]

So this begs the question: Why are these colleges letting these people in in the first place?