When I was little, I watched lots of cartoons (and still do). A common joke was to show a school of fish actually in school! I didn't realize it was a joke until I was older!
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- i used to spell eight "ate" cuz of the stuped: why was six afraid of seven, cuz seven ate(8) ten joke...— 8
- I thought when Grandma's hens were cackling, they were giggling about some private joke in the henhouse. — Not a farm kid
- 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 elementary school I use to think that teacher lived at school at their desks all year long.Anon
- when i first started school i thought the teachers lived in the school and slept on the tables.— emma
- When I was in elementary school nuns cam to our school. I thought that 'nun' meant they had no religion.Anon