The night before my first day of kindergarten, I was very excited. I pictured "school" as this cross between a medieval monastery, a planetarium, and a mad scientist's lab. People in long flowing robes. Wild chemistry set-ups with bubbling flasks and spirals of glass tubing. At "school", I would finally get to learn the secrets of the universe.
Imagine my surprise at the kindergarten classroom. My heart fell, but after a bit, leaped with hope again as the teacher said that we should "line up to all go to the lavatory". I heard "laboratory", and thought this was finally it. Clearly they had all the cool stuff hidden in some other part of the building.
But then saw the prosaic tiled wall and then realized it actually meant "toilets".
School has not lived up to my dreams yet, but I think I'm still looking for that same thing.
A childhood belief about classes
others believed things like this
- When I was in elementary school I use to think that teacher lived at school at their desks all year long.Anon
- I used to think that my teacher lived at school until she came to school late one day. I was shocked!— Wow, you have a life?!
- My brother used to believe that when we went to school dogs went to dog school to learn to speak and read— Matt
- I used to believe that my school teachers lived inside the school and my school bus driver lived on the bus. Anon
- When I was in kindergarten, I used to believe that they locked the teacher's in the teacher's lounge at night.Anon
- when i first started school i thought the teachers lived in the school and slept on the tables.— emma