School is a formative experience in our lives, and we learn much more than just the topics we are taught. These hilarious educational memes celebrate some of the commonalities we’ve all experienced while learning about the world and how to find our way in it. They've been gathered up by this awesome Instagram account, and we've shared our favorites with you here.
There are many memes about the facts we learned about the world, but that’s not all. Many other memes about learning deal with the social trials and triumphs that we experience as we grow at our schools and with the frustration of learning in systems that may not always be capable of giving each pupil the individual attention they deserve.
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Same for me! I live in South Carolina!
Load More Replies...Ugh not this again. Most Americans are perfectly familiar with the Celsius scale AND the metric system.
I work with high school students in the Midwest of the US. My students are absolutely _NOT_ familiar with Centigrade/Celsius or the rest of the metric system! They refuse to use anything that's not "American". Actually, I have never met an American student (K-12) who uses the metric system for anything other than science classes. Even my friends in the medical field, who use the metric system professionally, revert to American measurements in their private life.
Load More Replies...Kids in south carolina wearing shorts on a -19° day and wearing hoodies on a 48° day. (Celsius)
I’ve heard cats cat hear it make a sound while melting that we can’t hear.
Load More Replies...He's listening to the high frequency sounds the ice cube makes as it warms up differentially.
Load More Replies...*stares at ice* purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
I know the earth is flat, but looking at this picture I see it's got an edge to it also. Is that what is meaning of living on the edge is?
It's for cats to knock stuff off. Flat-earthers, mainly, but occasionally a vase or jar.
Load More Replies...I'm pretty sure the movement first started gaining steam in the early 00's when people were taking facts that could still be proven true if the Earth were flat to prove a point that correlation and causation aren't necessarily tied together. Then the movement got to where it is today by idiots hijacking what was a originally cynically clever argument by academia nerds
Load More Replies...I recently watched a documentory called Behind The Curve on Netflix about flat earthers. Its was incredably funny.
The dude proving the earth was curved, then trying to explain how his brilliant and very well executed experiment was flawed.
Load More Replies...Wonder if flat earthers believe that the sun & other planets are also flat
I think flat earthers just like to tick people off, they don't really believe it's flat. Or they could just be that stupid.
I like to think the same, but unfortunately I know that there are so many stupid people about :(
Load More Replies...Genesis 1:7-8 God created the firmament. Which means both sides are correct. Now argue about something else!
The memeseducational account has 45,000 followers on Instagram and over 650,000 on Facebook, so they’ve clearly touched on a topic with these funny educational memes that resonate with many current and former students and pupils. Setting aside homeschooling, which is an often legitimate but very different education path, both private and public schooling options share many problematic and positive commonalities, their differences notwithstanding.
For Japanese, only relatively recently My grandparents used to write でしょう as でせう. (deshou vs Dese-u). Kyoto きょうとwas writtenきやうと Kiyauto. There was language reform to help with literacy in primary school chIldren so they got rid of antiquated spellings that no longer matched pronounciation rules.
Load More Replies...uiriten? Why does ultra thicc think a w is pronounced, "ui"? Nuttier than a frwtcake!
When I say that I sound like I'm drunk and trying to do a French accent.
Not quite. For example, 'ng' is two letters but just one sound. Sometimes consonants are doubled (täytekakku-> /täytekkakku/) There's some other stuff as well, but yeah, it's close. I doubt that any language is pronounced EXACTLY as it's written.
Load More Replies...Try Greek, with 2 different ways to write "o" and a gazillion ways to write "e" and "i" (but pronounced the same! 😂)
It's frustrating, when I used to try (badly) to read Greek to the kid I always slip up with the dual e and i, usually by other thinking it. And the few times I'd write a sentence my partner would looked at it and say "should be omega not omicron". I swear you just make it up on the spot to annoy non-native speakers!
Load More Replies...You need to be more thorough with your examples :)
Load More Replies...I had a terrible time during my 4th year of French, since I came to that class right after Latin. That is one language where you really do pronounce every letter.
My theory is that French is evolving to the point where the whole language sounds like the patient's half of a conversation during a dental exam
Load More Replies...English has more exceptions to our rules than any other language. That's what trips people up. We have silent letters (k), letters that make 2 different sounds (c, k, g), letters that can sound the same (c, k, g, j), letter combinations that aren't pronounced the way they look (ph). Just a few examples. No, English is rarely written the way it's pronounced.
The narrator doesnt help. -During the bear documentary "the brown bear is a fierce hunter. Every dip back into the water is just one step closer to feeding his hungry family. His sharp claws are no march for the soft skin of a salmon'" -During a fish documentary "the wild salmon has a simple life. He lives his life in the ocean but returns to his birthplace to fertilize his young eggs. He must be careful or he will be lunch for a grizzly bear." *Cuts to a scene of a grizzly bear furiously thrashing in the water looking for food. lol
Is it just me being jealous of the bears? You don’t get fresher salmon than caught right then.
No, actually by the time the salmon have migrated back to their spawning grounds they look like zombie fish. Literally rotting bodies, stopped eating when began their migration, bodies torn up by their journey, change in water temp and salinity. Their last act is to lay eggs, fertilize them then they die. Don't ever eat salmon caught in spawning grounds.
Load More Replies...I'm all about the circle of life until an animal needs to eat or dies!
Watching a bear eat a fish in a Disney movie about said fishes children: full on ugly crying
It’s clear, even judging by the sheer amount of educational memes on the topic, that the education system is facing challenges, especially in the US. In the US, school test grades have reached their lowest levels in decades. Students are struggling to grasp some of the topics being presented to them, and experts are trying to figure out why.
It works with adults too. I've started using that in my English classes and on average I tend to get more questions since suddenly people aren't afraid to raise their hand anymore.
The satisfaction and the smirking at other classmates is the best feeling.
I say it in class all the time: it shows the students are thinking and questioning. We don't want to bring up robots. We want students to question everything, especially if it's written in a book. Just because it's in a book does by NO means it's true.
"Mrs. Steward, can I go to the toilet please?" - "That's a great question! Can you?"
louder, more obnoxiously, violently, and while profiteering. Edison only worked on things that would bring him profit, all Tesla wanted was for EVERYONE to have access to his inventions
Someone I used to work with used to do that to me and no one believed me until they did that to me in front of several co-workers at their going-away lunch!
Yea, but every time I hear the word “Tesla” I think of Elon Musk and that makes me a little ill. Actually, very ill.
Edison was not an inventor, just steal rhe ideas of Tesls, at his own profit.
Edison was in fact an inventor. He was an inventor long before he knew Tesla
Load More Replies...And Einstein is finally being recognized as the greedy douchebag that he was!
C’mon, really? Tesla wanted to power up the world by electrifying the stratosphere (or some -osphere). I still haven’t figured out how that’d work. Yeh, Edison was a Patent Vampire, so neither was a historic hero.
FALSE! Nerve cells, for instance, are not replaced. And really, you're saying hi to their brain, not their muscle tissues.
Please, we do know this but please leave a little something we can use against the c.ra.p people we no longer wish to have anything to do with.
Load More Replies...This is a common misconception. The "average" is every seven years, but some are replaced constantly, and some are never replaced. There's actually a wide range to the taste of replacing a cell.
And all the atoms in all of the cells of your body came from outer space, via comets! So, yeah, who wants to say hi to an alien?
One significant impact on the quality of education in the United States has been the COVID pandemic lockdown. Interruptions manifested themselves differently around the world depending on lockdown restrictions and compensation techniques, but in many places, both the quality and quantity of education dropped dramatically. Children had to adjust to learning from home, reduced class time, distractions at home, and other challenges. As you’re about to see, there are plenty of learning memes in this list that touch on the subject, too.
It's cause those of us fluent know we're fluent. There's no anxiety to prove ourselves, we know we got dis!
Load More Replies...I work in retail and the amount of idiots that spew "JuSt LuRn EnGlisS" at me and all I can do is SMH and ask "Okay, Roy, how many other languages do you speak?" Bc stfu and eat your half off cake, my dude.
English is the second language of my wife. When I met her she thought her English wasn't very good. I told her it was too good. She spoke English correctly which, in a lot of cases, isn't the way the rest of us normally speak. I am trying to learn her first language and am having the same problem. What I'm learning is technically correct but not always the way it is used in normal speech.
Yeah, when I first came to Spain, loads of students would say things like, "it's raining cats and dogs" which used to make us all laugh, as no English speaker would say that - here, it's either a useless drizzle or a total effin downpour! Thankfully their teachers have stopped throwing in old-fashioned sayings that we don't really use.
Load More Replies...and Americans trying to correct my spelling after I learnt BRITISH English in school as 2nd language
Drives me crazy when an obviously native English speaker talks/writes like they never had English classes. Punctuation is easier to forgive/overlook, especially in a casual setting like this. But for God's sake, don't talk/write like an 8 year old who hasn't learned anything yet. You make yourself and our country look like ignorant grunts. You speak English every day, you know how to speak properly! OK, off my soap box now. 😁
I just need them to use "it's/its" correctly, "should've" instead of "should of", know the diff between "couldn't care less" and "could care less", and use apostrophes correctly... That is all I'm asking for as a non native speaker.
It's only half true. Sadly, I might not remember what I've eaten today, at breakfast, but I do remember stuff learnt even 50 years ago.
Cannot connect to App Store. ‘Dang it I can’t buy a new brain! F’
I always suspected that smoke detectors were secretly cameras...
I see this all the time - teachers will remind kids that they learnt something (say, fractions) last year, and they'll look at you like, last year? What's that? Last year for a kid is like a decade in adult time.
I talk like this whenever I attempt to have a phone conversation XD
Sadly, my brain has spent the last 3 minutes trying to determine if it should be "Onfire" or "Onflame".
Load More Replies...The COVID pandemic was not the only reason for the drop in the US, however. By all accounts, the downturn in testing grades in the US has gone on for at least a few years prior, hinting at deeper underlying problems in the education system. Similar COVID-related downturns were identified in several EU countries, but their magnitude varied due to vastly different lockdown approaches and, in some cases, available resources.
And while all that does not sound very promising, we can always turn to educational memes and have a nice, delightful laugh at the woes of schools.
This meme drives me nuts. We teach both at the high school I work at. Education shouldn't simply be pragmatic. Having a well round education helps people engage more thoughtfully with the world around them.
I was taught how to do a 1080ez form in high-school. We did it one time in the 9th grade. I was reminded that molten rock was magma pretty much every year. It isn't that the material isn't being taught, it's the amount of focus. Personal finance should include more than the most basic tax form and be at least one semester. Compulsory classes should 100% be pragmatic. Pursuing personal interests is what elective are for. I do want to add that I haven't been in school for almost 20 years and can only comment based on my kids current experience, which seems about the same in that front
Load More Replies...How do you pay a mortgage? The mitachondria is the powerhouse of the cell!
Schools teach academic prowess. They expect parents to actually raise their children and teach them life skills. Also, mitochondria is plural, so "are" and "powerhouses"
exactly, school teaches you how to learn, so you can learn in college and in life
Load More Replies...Me: I live in the UK so my taxes are worked out & done for me by my employer.
What Americans have to do there own taxes. I didn't know this, I thought it was just self employed like it is here , (UK also).
Load More Replies...I don’t get it. I use turbo tax and do my own taxes - no educational time required. I’d far rather learn about magma in school. It’s hard enough to motivate kids to do math, and we want to force them to do 1040s?
Not everyone has access to the internet but still have to do taxes. And not everyone can just do a 1040ez, there's lots of complicated tax laws that actually change from year to year
Load More Replies...It always strikes me that the problem isn't the schools not teaching you, it's that the IRS makes it so complicated. Here in the UK it's either calculated, deducted from your wages, and paid to the tax man on your behalf by your employer when you get paid, or if you're self employed then there's a pretty simple online form where you fill in the blanks and it calculates it for you, and you only have to do it manually if you leave it too late.
Taxes are withheld by our employers and paid to the state and federal govt. We are responsible for filing a return which shows if our taxes were over or underpaid. When you start working for a company you fill out a form letting them know how many deductions you want withheld from your paycheck. This is how you could possibly over/underpay. The crazy part (I know, as if the other stuff wasn't crazy) comes in the middle with any extra deductions we may have that can possibly ease any extra tax burden. Paid student loan interest, paid mortgage interest, etc (too many to list.) The good thing is that with IRS FreeFile there are quite a few free tax services online you can use to figure your taxes for you. I won't even get into the self employed.
Load More Replies...They teach taxes and interest in my school from 7th grade onwards
I thought it had the element of Uncertainty - but now I'm not sure.
Load More Replies...Maybe it does contain the element of surprise... maybe that IS the surprise
I saw another version of this where the caption was: Isaac Newton inventing gayness.
This IS how Walt Disney worked back in the early, early days. Lots of experiments to verify the way light REALLY behaved, rather than the way we THINK it behaved.
I can hear the All the Maga-Lardo Snowflakes melting down & Smashing All Their Pink Floyd Albums Because they think it will help save them from Seeing things as they Truly are, a Rainbow 🌈 of All Colors!
A rainbow doesn't have black or white though, what about us?
Load More Replies...You can also use the inner (white) part of the rind like jicama
Load More Replies...I'll argue against this graph. I find the pith (white part) delicious XD
You can use it to replace cucumber in a gazpacho (the green part of watermelon)
Load More Replies...How does the rind actually taste, I feel it actually taste better the closer it is to the rind because it’s not as sweet and it doesn’t have the weird texture like most of the watermelon, it actually tastes more like water and I prefer it that way.
Very often, when in doubt, the first answer is more correct than any rethinking.
I professor once said that the first answer you thought of is probably the correct one.
I once sat a Civil Servants exam. I sat at the front, right in front of the guy giving the test. I finished and turned my paper upside down. He asked what I was doing, I told him I was done. He suggested I double check my answers, I told him there was no need to do that. I got a perfect score.
As a teacher, I can't tell you how many times my students go back and erase the right answer to replace it with the wrong ones.
this is like the meme about someone trying to get a job for like 20 year olds but you need at least 30 years of expirience. LMAO
Especially when they want a Master's Degree for entry level. Ummm..I don't have a lot of work experience because I was getting my MA but I still don't qualify for entry level!?
Load More Replies...I believe the common phrase is "I'm sorry. You're overqualified for this position." Employers know you're only there to fill the gap in employment until something better comes along. I don't get it. Almost everyone job hops, whether they're overqualified or not.
This applies to all of life, not just school/ studying. Me feeling guilty for not folding those 2 baskets of clothes but also me scrolling B.P. instead? Check. Me feeling guilty for not working in the yard but me binge watching the latest season of The Witcher? Chiggity check, y'all. And on & on it goes.
Studying does nothing for me, if a study the day before, I forget it in the morning, if I’m allowed to review for 5 minutes before the test, my mind goes blank right after and I start to freak out
I am able to convince myself why I can't study and why doing it tomorrow is better....
we do , in College we used to joke, even for 2+3, you use calculator, just to be 101% sure...
Load More Replies...When I was giving a test once I wrote on the board #19 - c. Correct answer, but everyone got it wrong.
Yeah you shouldn't be using contractions in an essay to begin with if you like actually want to get a good grade on it
SmashMorewordstogether see, that's only 1 word
Load More Replies...If a code allready exist then why waste time on recreating it over and over again? With this sentiment we would propably still working in Assembler
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Or something like that, I just copy the top answer in stackoverflow and change the variable names, don't ask me
Yeah I'm in project management team and we copy and paste content all day lol
Whales: Evolve lungs, leave ocean. See the shitshow on land. Return to ocean.
Humans: evolve gills. Evolve swim bladders. Use swim bladders instead of gills for absorbing oxygen. Ditch the gills.
nah, the definition of theory is, that it is pretty much confirmed. Scientists just don't fall into the hubris, that what they know qualifies as fact, since theories always can be enhanced with new verdicts. Outside of the scientific field theory is more likely mistaken as hypothesis.
Load More Replies...um technically washington dc is a capitol not a capital, just saying XD
You can’t be for real. A capital is a city serving as the seat of power, the capitol is the actual building.
Load More Replies...My twin daughters just started taking pictures of the board instead of trying to copy it all down.
I never bring my phone to school unless we have a field trip
Load More Replies...One time in a maths course in uni, during the break between two classes the cleaning lady came in to clear the room and asked the professor if she needed to clear the board. The answer was "Yes, just leave the part with the differential equations" and I've never seen such a look of "I'm so done" on someone's face before or since
We had notes on a chalkboard in one class in Grade 6. One time, I waved my hands so people would step aside so we could take notes. One male idiot covered up the board and the teacher was so mad because he messed it up.
This needs a sneaky 3rd character "Me, who repairs and even improves defective products"
Company who makes your life miserable by selling parts at an astronomical markup, not selling the parts at all, and refusing to provide manuals or repair guides. Also making it illegal to use/sell their products afterwards in any official basses.
Load More Replies...https://www.sciencealert.com/why-do-mirrors-flip-things-horizontally-but-not-vertically-here-s-the-physics
or the "trick" where some seams to think that the mirror can show whats behind the paper. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cHG5xs5xI5k
Load More Replies...Don't try asking a decent Physics teacher, I know from experience that they WILL tell you, and at some length.
Ow i wanna know. Anyone here know the answer? Something with a curve? Cause spoons do flip from top to bottom.
https://www.sciencealert.com/why-do-mirrors-flip-things-horizontally-but-not-vertically-here-s-the-physics
Load More Replies...Simply stated the mirror shows you the back of the image. If you project an image through a translucent screen then look at the image on the far side you will see the image reversed on the back side. The mirror shows you the back image. Use a tissue paper, a flashlight and a marker. Write the letter "B" on the flash light. Hold the tissue close and it will be reverse on the near side but correct on the far side. College physics teachers do the demonstration often.
The only thing I ever did with sin, cos, and tan was name a character in a story I wrote. His name is Sintancoslo. XD
such a noble name! also your replies always cheer me up!
Load More Replies...I ran into a former student at a wedding, and he said "Hey, how often do you think I use that trig stuff you taught us?" I said I didn't know. "About every minute and a half." He became a tool and dye maker.
Avoiding tans and sins? What are you, an Irish Catholic?
I had to use Pi the other day to calculate the diameter of my shower rail. I was so chuffed I text my Dad - he's nearly 80, but he appreciated all that extra tuition he provided back when I was at school had paid off! Edit: Sorry I should add, that obviously I had forgotten how to do it and I should have thanked Google.
hahaha your edit... that would be me as well, remembering something about there being an equation you could use for something, and then googling...
Load More Replies...Said this for years. We’re teaching them calculus but they can’t count change
If you get too much tan, you get cancer, and it can be assimilated to a suicide (cos you were warned for ages to put sunscreen), and suicide is a sin
Unfortunately. Accurate information would be much better.
Load More Replies...The censored word in question (synonym of 'knave') is a slang term for a male sexual organ
Is this in reply to Angela C, p a w n ? Didn't know that either...
Load More Replies...Chess pieces. The standing piece is the king and the kneeling piece is a p**n. If you get a p**n to the opposite end of the board it gets promoted. I can't remember if you can promote it to other pieces but typically it's promoted to queen because the queen is the most powerful piece on the board and having 2 (or getting one back if you've lost yours) is a pretty solid advantage.
Load More Replies...Whoa! BP is getting a bit melodramatic when chess piece names are censored.
Hawaiian pizza lovers unite! Pineapple powers ACTIVATE!
Load More Replies...I don't see the problem. Some people like pineapple (like me) - they will probably like it on pizza. Some people like anchovies (not me) - see above. However, I don't go on and on about how anchovies are evil incarnate. To each their own.
Is that mini pizza on a slab or pineapple?! And what would be its integral?!
I asked my son when he emerged from his room to get food, "You finish it yet?" He said, "What?" I said, "The internet. " I at least got a grin from him.
Moving the goats to the other pasture today. One that enjoys eating everything went first. Making all sorts of noises for temporarily leaving his friends. Gets to new pasture noises are extremely muffled through massive mouthfuls of his favorite food to munch on. Basically this exact picture
I visually lived this entire saga in my mind and am now best friends with your delightful goat. I own chickens, so I get it.
Load More Replies...What else do you expect from a dinosaur with a walnut brain?
Brachiosaurs died off 90 million years before the Cretaceous-Paleogene event.
There is always one of you :-) sometimes it is me :-D
Load More Replies...Frog and a chicken in a library, chicken says “ book, book book” frog says “ Reddit, reddit, reddit” 🐔🐸
https://www.barefootmosquito.com/kill-every-mosquito-earth/
Load More Replies...I always imagine the numbers in fractions to hate each other for some reason. Especially when the numerator is an odd number
They're just like people. Some don't get along with their upstairs and downstairs neighbors.
Load More Replies...“When your in an exam and the only thing you’re brain is doing is singing a song” 🙃
Load More Replies...For me these days is "sometimes I'm alone... sometimes I'm not..." Thanks Kiffness 😠
Either I had a stroke or they had a stroke and I'm worried that I don't know which one. Also I find it so funny how it's a mix of the most science words ever but has "man" at the end of every sentence, in true college student fashion
I regularly mix hardcore profanity with reasonably elevated vocabulary.... I love how it sounds
Load More Replies...Congratulations, stranger, you have reached the end and are now educated! Here is your certificate: 📜. Feel free to put in on your resume
I will put on my resume. Attentive, will see tasks through until completion.
Load More Replies...These were good! And I didn't notice any repeats from other articles!
I did, but not very many. Much better ratio than normal.
Load More Replies...These were good! And I didn't notice any repeats from other articles!
I did, but not very many. Much better ratio than normal.
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