I thought teachers knew absolutely everything there was to know!
I also stared at the back of their heads for hours, looking for the eyes.
A childhood belief about teachers

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you stared into a cat's eyes, my eyes would turn that color too.— silvia
- When my favorite Uncle died, I thought if I stared at him in his coffin he would open his eyes and be alive.— Cindy
- I used to believe that grown-ups, mothers in particular really did have eyes in the backs of their heads.Anon
- I used to think that my teachers knew everything. — Unknown
- I used to believe that heads of state had diferent kinds of heads on their shoulders— stupid elado
- I believed that our teachers lived at school. They were teachers--they had no reason to leave :)(Anon