hmmm...good question... I think that it is real, sorry...

Topics like History and Science in school are always 'behind' - as the leading edges are still being explored. Sometimes they're behind enough to be wrong in places. School is about programming though - it is about learning how to operate as a human being in our society, as well as learning things you need to operate in society. That's not wrong. It is necessary. The article you linked to is interesting, but you'd hardly be able to introduce that to a bunch of 10 year olds, would you?

I think the object of school is to get us to learn to think...then we are in a good position to judge what is accurate (I think that is what you mean by "real") There are certain immutable (unchangeable) facts: the dates on which events happened, the types of creatures that roamed the earth in the past...what you have to learn is how to put those facts into a rational framework. that is called interpretation. all those English questions that ask to interpret this or that in the light of... and those maths equations that tell you a+b=c are helping to organise your mind so that you are not taken in by any crazy wind of thought that comes along eg I remember when I was at high school having a conversation with someone a few years older. She was reading a fad book at the time "Chariots of the Gods" by Erich Von Danieken...its premise was that the earth's cultures had been started by an alien civilisation (sort of a 1970s Stargate; it's all been debunked now- von Danieken faked his evidence)and I remember her saying: "It must be true. I mean, how do you explain that on earth there are tall blonde Swedish people and short dark Celtic people living on the same latitude?" I said "How about migration? The present Swedes didn't move into their area until the early middle ages" "Oh," she replied, "I never thought of that". You see, my knowlege of migration was able to put her statement into perspective. Her lack of knowledge led her to accept a crazy theory with no foundation.

Yes, you're being programmed.

It depends on the teachers. Most school textbooks are factual and non-objective, but a teacher that has issues can enter a lot of his own notes and opinions into the curriculum and much of this might be unverified.

Most of it is real. It's just the perspective that is put on History. Most nations leave out national blunders but highlight its achievements. As for science, it's real. We are only taught a fraction of what is known.