I used to think English teachers could sue their students for plagiarism if they caught you copying story or poem ideas off someone else, sort of like cheating on a test!
A childhood belief about teachers

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that copying definitions out of a book counted as plagiarism!Anon
- I thought that the word Copyright was like copying your right hand on the copier.Anon
- I believed that our teachers lived at school. They were teachers--they had no reason to leave :)(Anon
- I used to believe that teachers built missiles when they went to the teachers lounge.— HOLLIS
- I used to think that even people who spoke something other than English, thought in English— Peaches
- everybody else were robots and I was a human test!
— Chas