Maya Lin Quotes

I guess you could say I was kind of a nerd in high school, so I was in the upper division math courses - I embrace my inner nerd.

One of my secret nerdy things is that I love education.

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

I was quite academic, quite geeky when I was a kid. I was more interested in going to school than I was in becoming a film star or something.

Being a nerd really pays off sometimes.

I used to like studying a lot.

I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.

I was a strange kid in that, while most kids hate school and want to turn 18 or 21, I loved high school.

I am very proud of my nerd-dom.

I love school. I was a great student.

Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.

I love to go to school. My favourite subject is math, and I'm - actually, I just love high school more than anything, probably.

Being a nerd is not always a bad thing. It's actually cool to be a nerd.

I read a book every night. I really am that nerd, so when I get to go to the Smithsonian and get to go in the back rooms and play with stuff, things like that, for a guy like me, that's amazing.

I always thought I wasn't cool enough in school, I was in the 'nerd' crew. I actually enjoyed studying.

I loved school as a kid. I was a bit of a nerd.

I'm not that smart. I work very hard.

Exterminate learning and there will be no more worries.

A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars.

We want a corps of educated instructors – we want gratuitous instruction in our academies and colleges. The di minorum of learning ought to be elevated in the scale of public estimation and intellectual endowment.

The savage and women are not what we call intellectual because they are not taught to know and manipulate the materials of knowledge.

I loved being a student more than being in school. I was kind of the nerd type; I was more into my career and my studies than the dances and being popular.

My father and my mother were both teachers. They inculcated to us the importance of studies.

I definitely identify as a nerd - love being in a classroom.

I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.