> Teachers (and everyone else) will be wrong about things. That's OK. The problems happen when people don't bother to do any simple checks themselves, and just accept things as fact without doing any critical thinking or experimentation of their own.

While not doing checks against teachers is a problem... there is a bigger problem of teachers who don't accept being wrong.

I would not disagree that your teachers failed you or vice-versa. But making grand pronouncements about people ("everyone else") and their problems as you see them ("without doing any critical thinking or experimentation of their own") and teachers too - and apparently based solely upon your personal experience in school and your thoughts on one church that just happens to be physically nearby you - isn't gonna convince anyone. Your comment is ignorant and offensive to teachers.

I didn't suggest they're always wrong, or that all of them are wrong, or that some of them won't have done any checks on what they're teaching. I said that teachers will be wrong about things. That only means they're fallible and don't get things right all the time.

If any teacher, or literally anyone else, is offended by the suggestion that they're human and could be wrong sometimes then I think I'm OK with offending them. If you think you're perfect and will never be wrong then frankly you deserve to be offended as often as possible.

I’ve often said that it is not whether or not you offend someone; it’s whether or not someone is offended.

Offence is up to the receiver after all.