Maryam Mirzakhani Quotes

I studied math, and I was terrible at it.

I was performing at a New Jersey high school, and I asked a class of 2,000 students, 'How many of you love mathematics?' and only one hand went up. And that was the hand of the maths teacher!

I was very bad at mathematics in school, and I always had the feeling as a kid that when I worked on problems, that I would be wrong.

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

I was not much interested in school, and both at secondary school and at university, I only just scraped through, with as little effort as I judged possible without failing.

We have a culture where it’s OK to not know anything about mathematics whereas in Asia, they don’t

A lot of times, when kids have problems with algebra or trigonometry, it has nothing to do with the subject matter, has nothing to do with their innate intelligence. It's just they that they had some gaps in elementary school that they never got to fill in.

At school, I wasn't as interested in mathematics. I did OK, but at the earliest point I could stop doing math, I stopped.

School reports were always pretty bad - I never ever did my homework. I always turned up for lessons as I liked my teachers but my report said I didn't try very hard.

In elementary school, I did well in science, but I was a poor writer. When I got to high school, I failed all my courses.

In high school, a teacher once suggested that I be a math major in college. I thought, 'Me? You've got to be joking!' I mean, in junior high, I used to come home and cry because I was so afraid of my math homework. Seriously, I was terrified of math.

I'm bad at math.

I was fine with everything except Maths. I was terrible at Maths.

I tried college and I hated that. I seem to quit everything I do.

I dropped out of high school. I really had no interest in doing any school work whatsoever.

I was never really good in school.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

I was a terrible English student.

I myself scraped seven poor passes at O-level.

I sucked in school.

I was a horrible student.

I was terrible at school.

I was the kind of kid who couldn't really stop making up stories during class. I didn't do very well academically because I was always drawing these little doodles in the margins of my notebooks and I wasn't bringing home the best grades.

Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

I wasn't very good at school and couldn't get my head round it.