Renato Dulbecco Quotes

I was always a very good student.

I was a great student. I was good at everything.

Grade school, middle school and high school were relatively easy for me, and with little studying, I was an honor student every semester, graduating 5th in my high school class.

I loved school, maybe too much, really. I was summa cum laude in high school. I was driven that way.

I was quite nerdy at school. I skipped a year and won a scholarship in chemistry.

In school, I was a genius of the year preceding the year I was in, every year.

I was in every club and extra-curricular activity at high school, and I was in the National Honor Society.

I was a brilliant student. I always try to be the best.

School was a waste of time for me. I was bored and left at 16. I started taking correspondence courses at college instead. I did incredibly well. I won an award for my grades.

I feel lucky because I was a nerd, which I talk about in the book, but I had academic success, so through that, because that's what my parents put a great deal of value on, I had a great childhood because I sort of fulfilled the expectations of being good at school.

In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics.

I hated school, but I was a good student. I made straight A's.

I guess you could say I was kind of a nerd in high school, so I was in the upper division math courses - I embrace my inner nerd.

In school the kids thought I was freaky because I made straight A's and daydreamed a lot.

I was a straight-A student. But I was a bad lad.

I made good grades in school.

As a 9th grader, I competed with the high school kids and out of 600 people, I finished 10th.

I was a weird animal in high school, doing no work and getting straight A's.

Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's.

I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class in composition, essays, English Lit and all of that.

In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.

I was always good at math, but I was good at everything. It sounds obnoxious, but I was just smart. In school, it's kind of obvious when you're learning things faster than other kids.

Integrated schools help students achieve academic success in the present and personal success in the future.

The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of education in South Africa, two African students had passed the JC with a First Class degree, regarded as a rare achievement for any student.

Massachusetts children cannot only lead the nation in test scores, they can be competitive with the best in the world. And the gap in achievement among races can virtually disappear.