Things taught in school but I never really understood: Schools are challenging, I'm sure it will always be, … especially for teachers. As a student, I guess you largely try to keep it moving to next level. Now when I look back, after almost 20 + years of schooling and still counting, I recall several things which were taught in school but I never really understood quite well. In fact, it hasn't been too long since I began to realize that at times knowing mere facts about something can be overtly illusionary as actual understanding of the core concepts we are attempting to unveil. Richard Feynman, an American physicist, puts it quite well in his interview with BBC in 1981, popularly titled as ' The pleasure of finding things out'. He talks about how knowing what a crow is called in different languages doesn't mean we know a lot about crows. Rather it reflects our linguistic ability to a certain extent. Also, he highlights the importance of distin