[discostu]

Phlogiston worked well for ages too, but we learned it was crap. Should we be teaching that to kids in high school instead of how combustion really works because it's so simple?

[WildTurkey]

Should we be teaching that to kids in high school instead of how combustion really works because it's so simple?

You are right. We should not be teaching the chemistry of combustion until one has mastered the Schrodinger Wave theory and Eiensteins Conservation of Mass and Energy theorms.