John Gurdon Quotes

I was a horrible student.

I was not a great student.

I was a terrible student.

I was terrible at school.

I was really rubbish at school.

I wasn't good at school.

I was a horrible student. I really hated school.

I was never really good in school.

I myself scraped seven poor passes at O-level.

I sucked in school.

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

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.

I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.

I didn't do well at school, and I don't have lots of academic reference points.

I was good in biology, but I did very badly in chemistry, and my parents were horrified by that.

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

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

I was a dummy in school.

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

I was perhaps the worst student you have ever seen. You know, I thought I was stupid, all my classmates thought I was stupid, so there was general agreement.

Having been kept pretty strict in prep schools, I guess I couldn't cope with all the freedom at Yale. I had a wild, wonderful time, got abysmal grades and was bounced out in my freshman year. I then came back the following fall as a repeating freshman, lasted until April and got bounced out again - for the same reason.

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 had a number of teachers who hated me. I didn't do well in school.