my dad used to tell me that teachers had no first names and that is why we call them MS. and Mr. that was till i realized that he and my mom were both teachers and they both had first names.
A childhood belief about teachers

others believed things like this
- I used to believe my parents names were mom and dad till i was 9— Sophiae
- At the age of around five, I realized that my mum's and dad's names were not mum and dad!— yelloworpurple
- I believed that our teachers lived at school. They were teachers--they had no reason to leave :)(Anon
- I used to believe that all the first names of judges was Justice till I was doing my 4th high school year.— Tafadzwa
- I used to believe that teachers built missiles when they went to the teachers lounge.— HOLLIS
- As my parents had given me a name, I thought that it was up to me to give them names tooAnon