Jamie Oliver Quotes

Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what's wrong with the school system.

I was a high school throw-out.

I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.

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

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

My mother was Catholic, my father not. I went to Catholic high school. Every form of education failed me. I was trouble.

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

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.

My wife has a public charter school for children with dyslexia. Almost every one of them has failed in a public school.

I pretty much bailed on high school. I mean, I graduated, but I wasn't even there for my own graduation.

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.

One of the problems is that kids who don't read - who are not doing well in school - they know they're not doing well. And they want everyone to be in that same category.

School didn't work for me. I hated it.

When you can't read or write at 14 or 15, in most cases you're headed for trouble, and trouble was finding me.

I do a lot of work with the Dyslexia Institute because, for people with dyslexia who do not have parental support, it is a huge disadvantage. I was fortunate because my Mum was a teacher and she taught me to work hard.

So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.

That's the trouble with stories. People start out fantastic. You think they're extraordinary, but it turns out as the work goes along, they're just average with a good education.

I'd been told I was going to be the next big thing. But in actual fact, the complete opposite happened.

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 never finished the ninth grade.

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

A child miseducated is a child lost.

My father was a dreamer - my hero. He was a smart, tough guy from Poland, a cutter of lady's handbags, an old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: 'Don't end up like me.'

I was always behind in class. There was people in my class who was amazing at art, amazing at maths, amazing at English, but I wasn't clever with anything, even though I tried my hardest.