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My father had very little formal education. ”
I believe education is much more important than we assume. ”
I would like to be a terrorist for music education - to make a complete reform, all over the world. ”
I love teaching online at my website and soon I'll be writing a math book. I love to teach math. I just don't have time for a full-time teaching gig. Acting is way too time-consuming. ”
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. ”
All my life, I have been surrounded by the track. The week I was born, Dad took me to training. I do recall at some stage being pushed around in a pram on a track. I have a lot of inspiration from him. To see him carrying the Sydney Olympic torch really ignited my dream. As a coach, he knows the in and outs of race walking and technique. ”
Every training session, I try to simulate the conditions similar to where I am racing. ”
I'm all about getting the training. Don't roll out of bed and say, 'I can do this.' ”
It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri. ”
The good news is world population growth rate decreases systematically and is expected to reach zero by 2050, thanks to urbanisation and women's education. ”