On the other hand, maybe other people don’t do the same. Or maybe they do but hearing the “party line” of “breakfast is the most important meal of the day” over and over again adds up and leads to you eventually believing it.
This reminds me of a revelation I recently had from going to a Steiner school (an alternative “holistic” school system popular in Germany) as a kid. When I talked to my sister who goes to the same school, I was noticing that she thought that the stories her teachers were telling her were literally true. I then tried to make it clear that humans had not started planting wheat because someone put a golden dagger into the ground, and that this was mostly an entertaining story. I would not even have known how to start explaining to her which things her teachers said were just stories and which were actual things worth remembering. Often they intentionally invent weird stories to teach you things like the alphabet. As a child, I had just found this a little frustrating because that meant we were just learning one letter a day. We also got told a lot of classics (like Greek Anthology) though, which I do actually appreciate. I am also not sure if we got taught a lot more bullshit than regular schools.
This reminds me of a revelation I recently had from going to a Steiner school (an alternative “holistic” school system popular in Germany) as a kid. When I talked to my sister who goes to the same school, I was noticing that she thought that the stories her teachers were telling her were literally true. I then tried to make it clear that humans had not started planting wheat because someone put a golden dagger into the ground, and that this was mostly an entertaining story. I would not even have known how to start explaining to her which things her teachers said were just stories and which were actual things worth remembering. Often they intentionally invent weird stories to teach you things like the alphabet. As a child, I had just found this a little frustrating because that meant we were just learning one letter a day. We also got told a lot of classics (like Greek Anthology) though, which I do actually appreciate. I am also not sure if we got taught a lot more bullshit than regular schools.