On Masterchef the amateurs are taught that three (or five) things on a plate look nicer than four (or six).
Remember being taught that one in eight men on the London gay scene are HIV positive?
We were taught that two abilities separate us from all other animals: use of tools and language.
We had been taught that the three R's were what we needed to exceed in America "Reading, 'riting, and 'rithmetic".
"Only in Brooklyn can you go from China to Russia in fifteen minutes," he said, his enthusiasm overruling any memory of geography class, where he might have been taught that those two countries share a border for more than twenty-two hundred miles.
"Many of us have been taught that if you save one life, you save the world," she said.
Being trained educators they had been taught that using those techniques on six year olds would not only help the six year olds see the errors of their ways but would eliminate the need for water boarding or other forms of discipline when the children were older.
Too many Americans have been taught that participation in our government — outside one day of voting each cycle — is limited to giving or soliciting money.
The Associated Press cited the Xenu and OT III story in describing the Web site: "Critics at www.xenu.net and elsewhere say advanced Scientologists are taught that 75 million years ago, the cosmic ruler Xenu paralyzed billions of people in our galaxy, stacked them on Earth and destroyed their bodies with H-bombs, though the traumatized souls survived".
To put the actual risks in perspective, police trainees should routinely be taught that there are thirteen jobs more dangerous than policing (roughly 10 deaths per 100,000), including logger (over 80), fisherman (70), roofer (nearly 40), truck driver (over 20), taxi driver (15) and maintenance worker (14).
