I used to believe that all rivers ran south, or down. This just had to the truth because the rivers were on the big pull-down map hanging in our classroom and the fact that gravity makes water run down.
A childhood belief about water

others believed things like this
- That the rivers stopped flowing at night!— Louise
- I used to believe that until gravity was invented, people used to just float around!— Meg
- I thought if someone hadn't passed the Law of Gravity, we would all be floating around in space.— Trudee
- I used to think the line in Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall was "No dogs allowed in the classroom."— Gretchen
- i used to believe that all of south america was mexico— katie
- i used to believe that hawaii was located right south of florida. hey, they both have great weather!— ashley