Dan Savage Quotes

I didn't really enjoy school in general.

You know when I was a kid, I hated every day I was in school, from the kindergarten right through to my last day of high school.

I don't learn so good, no matter how good the teacher is.

Childhood - that was not my favorite time in my life.

I just hate sitting and writing - I had to do that in school. Plus, I have terrible handwriting.

I was never very happy at school.

I loved being away from school. I didn't really fancy school that much when I was little; it wasn't until I was in third or fourth grade that I really settled down at school and I was much happier at home with my mum and she was very creative and sort of fostered all my interests.

I spent a lot of time in the school psychologist's office. I didn't apply myself. My mother thought I had learning disabilities.

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

I never finished high school. In fact, I hated going to school.

Doing 'Malcolm and Eddie' was probably the foremost miserable years of my life.

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.

Dr. Ben Carson has the most moving personal narrative in modern presidential politics. His mother, one of 24 children, had only a third-grade education. She was married at age 13, bore Ben and his brother, and then raised the boys as an impoverished single mother in Detroit. As a young boy, Carson was a terrible student.

I never thrived in high school.

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.

School was unbelievably painful. It was five years of being pretty sad.

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

All the bad things that have ever happened to me have always happened in Rome.

There were times when I was terrified to go to school because it felt like a jail sentence.

Do I miss Harvard? Not for a second. With a few exceptions... those four years are ones I would rather forget.

I wasn't very good at school and appalling at English.

At school I was a disaster academically but being involved in drama helped me to find another pathway into things.

I didn't collect my GCSEs. I didn't even do most of them.

When I was a kid in year one and year two, I had troubles with reading and writing, and my mum took me to St. Vinnies and we bought this big box of second-hand books, and she worked with me to turn that weakness around, you know.