If you are using what you submited above to teach, then you are totally teaching the html in the wrong way.
Errors...(might miss a few because I only scan through it)
1. Meta tags are not suppose to be in the <body>. Its suppost to be in the <head>
2. All Meta tags must contain content="Please fill me with your content".
3. The style is suppose in the head as well.
4. <font> tag is deprecated although its still html.
5. If I remember right, <table> doesn't support height attribute as it can expand as tall as your content can (and I think height is supported on HTML 4.0, not sure though....)
6. Definitely need to learn which is a parent and which is a child tag.
That's all I could really find. But its a different from learning it the right way or the wrong way. And you my friend are learning HTML the WRONG WAY!!