#stud

I wasn't in school often enough to really belong to a 'clique,' but my friends all studied hard and got pretty good grades. They were good people with self-respect. I still like to be friends with people I admire something about; I really believe that we become like the people we're surrounded by, so I choose my friends carefully! ↗

— Danica McKellar

#admire #become #believe #belong #carefully

Students never think it can be the teacher's fault and so I thought I was stupid. I was frustrated and would come home and cry because I couldn't do it. Then we got a new teacher who made math accessible. That made all the difference and I learned that it's how you present it that makes it scary or friendly. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#because #come #cry #difference #fault

You can be obsessed with makeup and hair products and, you know, your appearance and still be absolutely making smart life decisions and work on your smarts, develop your smarts by studying something like math. Then you'll make much better decisions on the brands of clothing that you buy or whatever it is that you want. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#appearance #better #brands #buy #clothing

Math proficiency is the gateway to a number of incredible careers that students may never have considered. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#considered #gateway #incredible #math #may

I recognize that I have a unique position to be a role model to young girls because I am doing something that they consider glamorous, which is acting, and yet I took a time to really get my education and study mathematics, and I think math is the cat's meow. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#am #because #cat #consider #doing

I've done a lot of surveys and interacted with a lot of students, and I was shocked to see that at 12 years old, girls are already talking about dumbing themselves down. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#already #done #down #i #lot

This much I'm sure of. Chances for winning = 1 - (# of math students playing)/ (# of math students cheering). That's a fraction. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#cheering #fraction #i #math #much

When I got to college, I was intending to study film. But I found that my brain was feeling mushy, so I took a few math classes. I started doing really well at them, and solving equations was this, like, drug rush. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#classes #college #doing #equations #feeling

You can study government and politics in school, but the best way to really understand the process is to volunteer your time. ↗

— Rob McKenna

#best way #government #our time #politics #process

I've been studying the cultures of Asia for many years, and I'm very attracted to the culture of Japan, in particular to the impact Zen has had on the Japanese mind and spirit. ↗

— John McLaughlin

#attracted #been #culture #cultures #had