I could have gone to medical school, I said. Except for all the math and stuff.
The hardest weeks for me are when I get to a course that I've never been to before or one that has been through a redesign.
I struggled academically throughout elementary school
I really wanted to be veterinarian, but I got a 410 on my math SATs.
I was very active but I was dyslexic and had a really hard time at school.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
If your parents are billionaires, that might actually be an obstacle to your own happiness and self-development. If you go to Oxford or Harvard, that might actually thwart your desire to graduate with a science or math degree.
Everyone has learning difficulties, because learning to speak French or understanding relativity is difficult.
I was a bad student. My teachers gave up trying to teach me how to read music.
It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.
Of course I'm totally biased, but I think my mom is an amazing educator. She continues to work tirelessly for the kids in her classes, year after year - despite the innumerable obstacles she faces. She is a huge inspiration to me.
Poverty makes it very difficult in an already competitive world for kids to get on a straight track where they can actually love learning.
I dropped out of high school four times between the ages of 12 to 17.
