From: jon+usenet@unequivocal.eu 
  
 On 2025-07-29, GB  wrote: 
 > On 29/07/2025 17:25, Jon Ribbens wrote: 
 >> On 2025-07-29, kat  wrote: 
 >>> On 28/07/2025 20:04, Mark Goodge wrote: 
 >>>> On Mon, 28 Jul 2025 14:17:20 +0100, JNugent  wrote: 
 >>>>> When anyone says "I was taught X at school", they mean, and are taken 
 to 
 >>>>> mean, that it was formally taught to them as part of the purposes and 
 >>>>> objectives of the school. 
 >>>> 
 >>>> No, they don't. They really don't. You appear to be in a minority of 
 >>>> one as regards this particular non-standard opinion. 
 >>> 
 >>> I would say that I was "taught" what I needed to know to pass exams, 
 >>> but that there were other things I "learned".  I was taught how to 
 >>> play hockey, but I learned I was useless at it. 
 >>> 
 >>> Yes, it is all education, but I tend to see a difference.  I didn't 
 >>> have to agree with opinions of teachers. 
 >> 
 >> Ok, but that's not what Mark and JNugent are talking about. You are 
 >> making a distinction between information deliberately passed on by 
 >> teachers and things you learned for yourself. JNugent is purporting 
 >> to make a distinction between different types of information passed 
 >> on by teachers, and he's clearly wrong, and your comment doesn't 
 >> support what he's saying. 
 > 
 > So, when Mr Good, the English teacher, told a class of 12 year olds that 
 > "Using a condom was like washing your feet with your socks on", you are 
 > adamant that he was teaching them to have unprotected sex? 
 > 
 > I must say that I'm not so sure about that. 
  
 That's ironic given it's only you that's suggested it. 
  
 Personally I have no idea, since I have no idea what you're on about. 
  
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