Kevin O'Leary Quotes

I didn't learn how to read until I was at the end of fifth grade and 11 years old and held back.

I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.

There's only so much academic disruption that a young child can deal with before he just can't catch up.

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.

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

From the time I started school, it was clear to everyone that I wasn't learning at the same pace as other kids.

I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.

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.

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 didn't read at all until I was 12. I just couldn't. It was too frustrating.

I had learning problems when I was in elementary school, and didn't really start to read well until high school. I never read any of the middle grade classics that were popular when I was young - 'Harriet the Spy', 'Charlotte's Web', 'The Witch of Blackbird Pond', 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'.

I had a lot of reading problems growing up.

Somehow it's O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, 'I never learned to read,' they'd say I was an illiterate dolt.

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

Our youth of today, it is to be feared, is backward to learn; studies are accounted irksome.

I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.

I got kicked out of high school, went to 3 different high schools and summer school and extra night school just so I could maybe graduate and try to make it up, because I flunked pretty much my entire freshman year, mainly because I just never showed up.

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

I was fine with numbers, but it took me a longer time to grasp simple things like spellings.

When I was growing up, I was told I was stupid and that I would never achieve. I suffered from dyslexia, and in those days it wasn't recognised.

I think it is shocking that 15- and 16-year-olds leave school unable to add up and with the reading ability of a four-year-old.

I failed eighth grade twice, and then they moved me up to ninth grade. Then I failed that and dropped out. My teacher would hand me a test, and I'd grade it myself with an F, then put my head down on the desk.

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

I know what not being able to read can do to a child's confidence.

I hated school. I travelled so much in my early years that I didn't understand the process. I felt suffocated - not like I was some grandiose artist; I just felt like an alien.