Stereotypes in the Classroom: Why I'm Proud to be a Nerd | Maria Dervishoghlyan | TEDxAUA

Sixth grade. The teacher asked the question. It was something related to geography.I clearly knew the answer as I had read the reading the night before and the teacher mentioned it in the class as well. So I raised my hand to answer the question. None of my classmates raised a hand.Instead, they started to laugh. At that moment, I was too concentrated on giving the right answer that I didn't even realized why they laughed. So, apparently, they had that internal belief that if the reading was a longer one, i ...