Nicole Gale Anderson Quotes

I was in three academic clubs, a huge book worm and the teacher's pet. I was kind of an easy target for bullies.

I was home schooled in high school but was definitely the nerd in middle school.

I was a huge bookworm, total nerd, so I was a victim in middle school. I was in three academic clubs, so I was an easy target.

I was very short. Everybody else was two years older in my class, and I had curly hair and was teacher's pet.

I was ridiculed in public school for being smart. A teacher's pet.

I was a very studious student and usually got A's. I did not like school, because I wasn't popular - I was a nerd.

Parents don't want their kids to be nerdy.

The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it.

I was never very happy at school.

I'm a nerd. Total geek. I never went to homecoming or prom or anything.

I feel sorry for the poor kids whose parents feel they're qualified to teach them at home. Of course, some parents are smarter than some teachers, but in the main I see home-schooling as misguided foolishness.

In a home school, the kid does 95% of the work. But in a school system, since it's an indoctrination system, a teacher has to do 95% of the work.

I wanted to get through high school anonymously.

Even a lot of kids who are gifted can be kids who feel like wimps or nerds.

I remember the mentoring experiences of some teachers that I had, like a second term home room teacher in public school that really was very helpful to me.

Golly, I hated high school.

As I got into middle school, I was really an outcast. But everybody was an outcast in middle school. I don't know who got the idea to put all kids going through puberty together in a school and give them academic elitism and competition and pit them against each other.

I'm very lucky I haven't gone through a lot of bullying, and I'm also home schooled.

I don't miss public school.

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

Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

Don't forget, I was the soft, pudgy kid in school that everyone made fun of.

My father, Emil Palade, was professor of philosophy, and my mother, Constanta Cantemir-Palade, was a teacher. The family environment explains why I acquired early in life great respect for books, scholars and education.

A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear - which is something you have to take out of education: the fear of worrying about what marks you'll get, detention, worrying about letting people down, your parents, teachers.

You can be chased home or hit or called names or spit on, and it's over. You have the memory of it, but it's very different from the emotional and psychological experience of feeling invisible, of not learning the confidence to stand up in class and speak.