Learning Through Osmosis

"Learning Through Osmosis"

I get this phrase. I have no question of what it's supposed to mean, however the phrase itself is completely impossible and inaccurate. Osmosis is, and I use dictionary.com here for exactness:

" the tendency of a fluid, usually water, to pass through a semipermeable membrane into a solution where the solvent concentration is higher, thus equalizing the concentrations of materials on either side of the membrane."

It's a diffusion of water or something fluid. This means that you cannot pass knowledge (I know it's a joke, but it's still wrong) or any other solid substance through a membrane and call it osmosis. It would be definition. I believe that who ever coined this phrase did not pay attention in science class. And don't get me started on "survival of the fittest," although I might get myself started and rant tomorrow on how incorrectly that phrase is now used.

Please, for the love of all things holy and right, stop using this phrase immediately. Do it for your science teacher, and if you hated that person then do it for me.