Malachy McCourt Quotes

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.

Being very dyslexic I couldn't even tie my own shoe laces until the age of 21 and I struggled at school.

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

I wasn't dyslexic, I was just very slow. I passed my time daydreaming.

I was very active but I was dyslexic and had a really hard time at school.

I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would.

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

I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.

I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.

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

Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily... thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn't always follow what was going on.

I've lived with my dyslexia and gone on to have a successful recording career, but academically I never had a chance in hell because I didn't fall into that bracket.

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 was hopeless at high school - I failed everything but Latin.

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 was a classic attention deficit disorder kid, always bored and mouthing off at school.

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

I went to a private school, and I struggled academically. It was really disheartening to always be considered bad at that.

In retrospect, I think I had some kind of learning disorder. I could kind of charm my way through grade school, but in high school... I could never seem to grasp things.

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.

I had lots of trouble in school as a child, and I lost confidence. Teachers thought I was stupid. I learned to read very late, when I was 11. Dyslexia wasn't recognized then, and the assumption was you were incapable of thinking.

I was never really good in school.

I was very disruptive. I was horrible. I didn't learn like all the other kids. I had to sometimes take my tests out in the hallways because I couldn't focus. But, my teachers would come see me in the plays and were like 'I don't understand how you can focus and be in the moment in a play and you go into math class and you can't focus.'

I was put in remedial everything.

'Late bloomer' is another way of saying 'slow learner.'