I believed, really believed, that when we were taught something in school for the first time, it was something that had just been discovered, and we were the first to be told.
I once worried myself sick after a first-school lesson that we'd have some terrible ice-related incident because no-one but my class knew that when water freezes, it expands.
A childhood belief about classes

others believed things like this
- When I was a kid, I believed that bible school was "beauty school", and called it that all the time.— Dana
- I used to think that if I was home sick that no one else could go to school either. (it was MY school)— kirk
- Right when I started school, I believed that you could get kicked out of school for chewing gum. — Rheeb
- I always believed that my dad went to school with Billy Bunter. I think my brother believed it too!— Karen
- I was told that spaghetti grew on trees and i anounced it in class one day in grammer school.— w.b.
- I thought pretending I was sick to stay home from school was called cookie not hookie.— Jen