The founders wrote the Constitution as a “living” document, so we could change it by “interpretation”.
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Communism is a great idea, it has just been implemented badly.
I was homeschooled, so...no.
Ducking under your desk will save you from an atomic bomb blast.
All the oil would be gone by the early 2000s.
Killer bees would destroy America.
Oh, No! No Ozone!
Sometime during the 60’s we were told there was only about 50 - 100 or so years of petroleum left in the Earth. Obviously wrong.
Damned near everything. I have spent a lifetime UNLEARNING most of it. That is the basis of REAL education.
If you’re nice to a bully, he’ll like you and stop bullying you.
Peak oil was coming by 1975 just as the new ice age kicked in and we’d all be dead. That started in 1965. The doomsday date started out as 1970, then 1975, then somewhere along the line it got changed to global warming. Peak oil was still a thing until sometime in the 80’s.
I attended high school in the mid 1960s. I have excellent recall of that time period. We were taught no lies and had to work hard for good grades. Credit where due: Hopkinsville High School, Hopkinsville, Kentucky.
That the Boll weevil was just looking for a Home.
Now the boll weevil is a little black bug
Come from Mexico, they say.
Come all the way to Texas,
Just a-looking for a place to stay,
Looking for a home,
Just a-looking for a home.
While not direct quotes the inferred included:
Hunting destroys the environment and all guns are evil
All business people are just out for money and don’t care about anyone else
The South only went to war to keep their slaves (no discussion about States rights or anything)
For a few
2 + 2 = 4
That High School freshmen could buy elevator tickets to avoid the stairs.
That civilization started 4000 years ago in Egypt. Now we know it’s at least 12000 years old,vor even older
How about a lie then but became true later?
Growing up in the 1950s we were warned that something would go down on our “permanent” record. Unless it was something like getting expelled or going to jail most of the adventures engaged in during the 1950s were erased when people forgot about them.
However today people are creating their own stupid stuff and posting it on line which then becomes a “permanent” record.
I for one am glad we did not have cameras and the internet to record the stupid stuff we did back then (of course I never done any of those thingsI
Spinach makes you strong. Wait... that was Popeye. Never mind.
Can we ask a question with many fewer possible answers?
"What Is Something They Told You in School That You Found Out Is the Truth?" :)
That America doesn’t negotiate with terrorists.
BLM, ANTIFA, HAMAS, AL Qaeda, Islam… we don’t NEGOTIATE with them, we SUBSIDIZE terrorists.
That there are only two genders, male and female. Wait, that one actually might be true. Aw, nevermind.