Warren Zevon Quotes

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

From the time I started school, it was clear to everyone that I wasn't learning at the same pace as other kids.

I was put in remedial everything.

I was a very, very slow learner. I was good at nothing.

When I was homeschooled, I fell so behind - months behind at school - because I'm not good at keeping up. And so I had to sit down for literally three weeks to a month and just do all of it. And it was not fun, and I didn't want to do it, but I had to.

I was never really good in school.

I sucked in school.

I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.

I had a lot of trouble in school to begin with. I got left back in kindergarten, and I was in special education. My teachers didn't have very much faith in me.

I wasn't good at school.

I didn't do very well academically; I was always in the bottom class.

I was not good in school. I could never read very fast or very well. I got tested for learning disabilities, for dyslexia. Then I got put on Ritalin and Dexedrine. I took those starting in the eighth grade. As soon as they pumped that drug into me, it would focus me right in.

In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia.

Our youth of today, it is to be feared, is backward to learn; studies are accounted irksome.

In the end, I did end up repeating seventh grade.

Academically, I was thick. School wasn't bad, but I was.

I was allergic to school. I was completely befuddled by school. I was trying so hard, but I couldn't succeed. I took geometry for four years, the same course over and over again, and I did not graduate with my senior class. I finally passed geometry after doing summer school, and eventually, I graduated.

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.

I was a bad student. My teachers gave up trying to teach me how to read music.

I never thrived in high school.

I'm very slow. I'm a slow learner.

The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.

I never read in school. I got really bad grades-D's and F's and C's in some classes, and A's and B's in other classes. In the second week of the 11th grade, I just quit. When I was in school, it was really difficult. Almost everything I learned, I had to learn by listening. My report cards always said that I was not living up to my potential.

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

I was a horrible student. I really hated school.