I thought that teachers were assigned to certain grades based upon how smart they were, i.e., the ones who taught first grade were the least intellligent, the 2nd grade teachers were a bit smarter than the first grade teachers, and the 4th grade teachers must be the smartest teachers of them all. Then I told my 2nd grade teacher a really big vocabulary word ("entomologist") that my 1st grade teacher had taught me the year before, and when my 2nd grade teacher truly didn't know what it meant, it blew my mind.
A childhood belief about teachers
others believed things like this
- A[n] nth grade teacher only had to finish the nth grade when he or she was in school.— MD Caruso
- I believed that our teachers lived at school. They were teachers--they had no reason to leave :)(Anon
- I used to believe that the teacher's lounge was where the teachers went to make out.— Julia
- im grade 2, my teacher said that she was 2000 years old and i belived her— ---pepsi---
- I used to believe that teachers built missiles when they went to the teachers lounge.— HOLLIS
- I used to believe that boys couldn't be teachers because they weren't smart enough. — Azz