When I was in Kindergarten and First Grade, I used to think that pencil sharpeners "refilled" the lead in pencils. You stick the pencil in, the sharpener puts on a new point. But this idea was finally shattered for me in art class in First Grade, when I used colored pencils for the first time. I was amazed that the pencil sharpener also stocked COLORED lead! I was so excited that I went and found the teacher to announce my findings to her. She looked at me like I was crazy and explained to me how a pencil sharpener REALLY works. What a disillusioning moment....
A childhood belief about teachers
others believed things like this
- If you bit the end of a pen of pencil you would be poisoned by the lead or ink. Anon
- As a kid I used to believe that when you sharpened your pencil, the eraser on the pencil grew.Anon
- i was told that if you got stabbed with a pencil (by yourself or others) you would get lead poisoning.— waiting to die
- I used to believe that people got lead poisoning from being stabbed (accidentally) with pencils.Anon
- I used to believe that when your pencil ran out of eraser that if you sharpened it it would grow a new eraser— Nikkie
- When I was little I thought "Pencilvania" was a huge store that sold pencils and nothing but pencils.— Tim