Introduction Growing up, we accept the world exactly as it is explained to us. As children, we trust parents, teachers, elders, cartoons, and textbooks without hesitation. If something is said confidently enough, we believe it must be true. Questioning feels unnecessary—after all, why would adults be wrong? But adulthood has a funny way of revealing the truth. As we grow older, we slowly realize that many things we believed as kids were not facts at all. They were myths, half-truths, or oversimplified explanations passed down for convenience, discipline, or storytelling. Some of these ideas were harmless, while others shaped how we thought about our bodies, intelligence, and the world around us. Unlearning these myths is part of growing up. It sharpens our thinking and reminds us of an important life lesson: just because something is widely believed doesn’t mean it’s true. Let’s revisit some of the most common childhood myths that turned out to be completely wrong. 1. Bulls ...
Introduction “I am the wisest man on earth because I know one thing that I know nothing”. These mindful words are of Socrates. He is one of the most popular philosophers of all time. He sacrificed his life for humanity without even thinking twice. Socrates had not written his biography but we can know about him by reading books of his student, Plato. He was from a very poor family and his father was a sculptor. He fought for his nation as a young army man. Many times during the war he used to go to a lonely place and think for several hours. When he didn’t like army and sculptor work then he opened his own school where young students used to ask a wide variety of questions from him. Socrates was a very open-minded person but at that time people of Athens used to follow dogmatic rules. Due to his revolutionary ideas, he gained the attention of many other philosophers but few of them became his enemies. Death of Socrates The people of Athens were very conservative and there was great tur...