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[-] EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website 35 points 11 months ago

I remember asking my teacher why you could see the moon during the day and my teacher told me you couldn't.

This too left me very confused, because I had seen the moon that very morning from the school yard.

[-] evranch@lemmy.ca 23 points 11 months ago

Last year my daughter told me her grade 4 teacher had told the class "Well nobody really knows how magnets work" to which my science-obsessed daughter replied "You mean you don't really know how magnets work!"

I confirmed to her that yes, our understanding of magnetism is about as complete as it can get. Of all the mysteries the universe has to offer, magnetism is not one of them.

[-] wedeworps@sh.itjust.works 11 points 11 months ago

What that teacher probably wanted to say was that, while we can explain how magnetism works, no one can tell you why it happens.

[-] venoft@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Nature doesn't have a reason to do things. There's no 'why' in anything, other than 'the laws of physics make it do so'.

[-] madejackson@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

For completeness, we cannot say for sure if we even exist. The universe could very well just be an imagination and nothing really matters, including the laws of physics and our understanding of magnets.

[-] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

In this year alone, I've had so many things happen that just scream we live in a simulation, it genuinely wouldn't even surprise me if it was true.

Either way, nature is our one true god.

[-] jasondj@ttrpg.network 3 points 11 months ago

4th grade seems to be about the right maturity level to become a huge ICP fan, so it checks out.

[-] Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

It's just that magnetism is really complicated the deeper you go, and there's nothing else to compare it to.

[-] DroneRights@lemm.ee -1 points 11 months ago

I don't wanna talk to no scientists

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

They're just lyin', and getting me pissed

[-] psud@aussie.zone 8 points 11 months ago

Stupid/inconstant adults stick in your mind. I'm lucky to have mostly had good teachers, just one teaching vowels one week taught us a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y

Then the next week tested our learning, and marked my answer "a, e, i, o, u, sometimes y" wrong because it's only aeiou. Sure teacher. No vowels at all in by, but the same sound at the beginning of bicycle has one.

I think they must have been reading from a book when teaching, but working from their own ideas for the test

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