Being an academic freak, I used to think that teachers had the power to transfer their superhuman intellect to us students. So, one day when I was in grade 3, I went around the school asking teachers for their autographs so that if they liked me, they would make me smart.
A childhood belief about teachers

others believed things like this
- I believed that our teachers lived at school. They were teachers--they had no reason to leave :)(Anon
- I used to believe that boys couldn't be teachers because they weren't smart enough. — Azz
- I used to believe that teachers built missiles when they went to the teachers lounge.— HOLLIS
- when i first started school i thought the teachers lived in the school and slept on the tables.— emma
- i used to believe that all the teachers lived at schoolAnon
- i used to believe that teachers lived in school — alicia