I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When I was 14 or 15, a camp counselor told me I was smart. I had never been very good in school, but he told me once that I was smart but my mind operated a little differently.
Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!
I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me.
For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn't fit in; my intelligence was elsewhere.
I was always the black sheep of the family and always told that I was dumb, and I had a low IQ and did badly in school.
I am smarter because I stayed in school, and I am a better football player.
I thought I was so much smarter than everybody. And I'm not.
In middle school, I had the best math teacher I've ever had, and he was deaf... and I felt inspired by him. I knew from then on that I wanted to be a math teacher.
I don't have to be smarter than anybody else. I've just plain worked harder and longer than anybody else.
Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.