Ted raises his eyebrows at the education bit, and nods in understanding at the wanting to fix people. That's sort of what he does too, just in a much vaguer sense. And then he lets out a laugh at the last bit.

"Wow, three time valedictorian, huh?" he says, impressed. "I barely graduated high school, and I almost dropped out of college twice." He doesn't feel any real shame in that (maybe some self-consciousness), but it just amazes him that the two of them can be so different in certain ways, and yet get along so well.