Dick Van Dyke Quotes

I was always pretty good at school, but a lot of it was memorising, maybe cheating off your mates, stuff that gets you through.

I wasn't a good student in high school. I mean, I got through it, but unless it had something to do with music, it didn't really interest me.

To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.

I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.

I was a disinterested student.

I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.

My best subjects were chemistry and math.

Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business.

I've always enjoyed real work more than schoolwork. My mother will attest to that - she was always concerned about me academically.

I was not an especially diligent student but nevertheless obtained a reasonable education in physics.

The best schools tend to have the best teachers, not to mention parents who supervise homework, so there is less need for self-organised learning. But where a child comes from a less supportive home environment, where there are family tensions perhaps, their schoolwork can suffer. They need to be taught to think and study for themselves.

I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.

I didn't pass the scholarship exam for Oxford because of poor mathematics.

I wasn't a great student. My brother is 18 months older than me, so he sort of forged the way for me at school.

I would like my kids to study well.

I kind of always did get good grades.

I was a rather quiet student, studying hard. Once, I was ranked fifth in a school exam out of everyone in the same grade.

I know I haven't been the greatest student, but I do intend to get my degree. Otherwise, my mother will kill me.

I was a decent student but not a great student.

I was good in biology, but I did very badly in chemistry, and my parents were horrified by that.

I did all right in school, especially in math.

To be honest, I was not very good in studies; I was an average student. I used to work hard, whether it was for wrestling or studies, as I considered myself not that talented. I used to mug up everything during exams.

I never had good grades until I dropped out of religion. And then suddenly, my grades went up.

I probably wish I'd worked harder in school. I loved school but it was more a social thing for me. I did well in school but I could have done better.

I was always a guy that would study for three hours and barely get an A on the test and you would have another guy next to me who would study for maybe 30 minutes and ace it.