Robert Sternberg Quotes

I had no confidence at school. I was not a good student and I really thought I was pretty stupid. Just dumb.

In my first few years of elementary school at the Edison School in Detroit, I did poorly. I remember worrying that I might fail the second grade and be held back.

I was always the youngest person in class, skinny, scrawny, no good at sports. I asserted myself by being smart. But then I got to college and started to get C's and D's. That was fantastic. I no longer had to be the smartest person in the room.

I had a number of teachers who hated me. I didn't do well in school.

I didn't do very well at school, and I suppose I've always had this sense, you know that, of being average, so I've been a bit low on self-confidence in my ability.

When I was in middle school, I always did well in school, but teachers either loved me or absolutely hated me.

I was really rubbish at school.

When I was in grade school, my teachers decided I was just about the dumbest thing to come through the door in a long time. Whatever the lesson, whatever the subject, I would sit and listen to them with a lost, glassy-eyed expression on my face.

At school, I had to work really hard to get a D in maths. And I wasn't slacking off; I actually did work quite hard.

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

I was a bum at school. I never liked learning, and stupid ideas used to come to mind.

I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class.

I wasn't good at school.

When I was growing up, I wasn't an extrovert. If anything, I was an introverted kid and a very average pupil at school. I was very quiet.

I call myself a teacher because they want me to call myself a teacher, but actually, what I'm doing is I'm studying.

I was okay with school. My sister Kourtney was extremely smart. I always read a little slower.

I was a dummy in school.

I didn't really have a favourite subject at school as I was useless at everything.

I was never really good in school.

I sucked in school.

I was a horrible student.

I was terrible at school.

I was ridiculed in public school for being smart. A teacher's pet.

I spent an awful lot of my life underestimating myself and, as a result, not exceeding my own expectations.

I think people look at me and don't expect much. Even though, I expect a whole lot.