I used to believe that teachers' first names were just 'Miss' or 'Mr'. I used to feel sorry for them that they had no proper name. I also thought that they lived in the walk-in cupboard. (That's why we weren't allowed in there.)
A childhood belief about teachers
others believed things like this
- I believed that female teachers got to choose if they wanted to be called "mrs. or miss" — Jenna
- Up until I was about seven, I thought soda pop was alcoholic and that's why kids weren't allowed it.Anon
- I believed that our teachers lived at school. They were teachers--they had no reason to leave :)(Anon
- It never occured to me as a child that teachers lived in houses. I thought they lived at school...— Heidi, Pittsburgh, PA
- I used to think that panthers lived in our cupboard.— entertainer
- I used to believe that boys couldn't be teachers because they weren't smart enough. — Azz