The situations here are more truthful than the myths students are taught. If students were taught how things really occur, they might be prepared to make things happen in the world.
Is this the column you are referring to?
If you are right, you are rather perceptive, as I couldn’t make out the OP at all.
Welcome to the Straight Dope Message Boards, blisstraveler, we’re glad to have you here. When you start a thread, it’s helpful to other readers if you provide a link to the column you’re discussing. It saves people searching time, and it keeps us more or less on the same page. I presume that ftg, in the first post following yours, got the right one? No big deal, you’ll know for next time, and, as I say, welcome.
And yes, if you read through more of Cecil’s columns, you’ll find that the Straight Dope is far more accurate, interesting, and amusing than most school classes. Plus, what class in school would discuss why feces is brown?