Stephen J. Cannell Quotes

That's correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write.

I sucked in school.

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

I found that I was just hopeless at school. It was just a total bore. First, I passed in art and English, and then just art. Then I passed out.

I failed every class up until I dropped out freshman year.

In high school, I was a poor student.

I wasn't good at school.

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

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.

I did badly in high school. I don't know why, but I failed all my exams. Then I took them again.

I was a bad student. I liked archaeology actually, I was interested in maybe becoming an archaeologist but I was such a bad student and had such bad grades that I wasn't going to get into any really good college so I fell back on acting.

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.

When I turned 15, I left school having failed to make the minimum grade. With little direction I enlisted at the local culinary school. Here the academic demands were less rigorous.

I was a completely below-average high school student. I never went to college.

I skipped school starting in tenth grade. I started doing badly and failed every class but English, so they kicked me out of school. They gave up on me.

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

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

I struggled academically throughout elementary school

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

I was a terrible English student.

I myself scraped seven poor passes at O-level.

I was put in remedial everything.

What makes this story so remarkable is that throughout my early childhood I had ongoing learning difficulties, particularly in mathematics. I struggled to learn the multiplication table, and no matter how hard I tried, I simply couldn't remember 6 times 7 or 7 times 8.