Building confidence
The neighbors know her as the crazy lady who goes out in the streets half-naked and yelling
What is intelligence?
We were all trying to figure out a solution
Making the right decisions
A mental ability involved in reasoning, perceiving relation- ships and analogies, calculating, learning quickly
Everyone has it
Intelligence doesn’t mean knowing everything; it means knowing something
Making something of yourself
It can also be to succeed without education
Book smart and street smart
She would always make him do his homework, read a book, and then clean the house
It's in the eye of the beholder
One whose grade point average doesn’t meet the requirement that his high school imposes on students for them to be part of sports teams
If at first you don't succeed...
I used to say that once I had them up, I was not going to let them go down
Independent grittiness
When I was nine, she decided to go back
It's universal
But you don’t have to go too far to see that it’s all around you
Patience and persistence
So he decided to volunteer to help other students with their homework