From: NOTsomeone@microsoft.invalid 
  
 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. 
  
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