Thomas A. Edison Quotes

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

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

I was really rubbish at school.

I was a dummy in school.

I was never really good in school.

I sucked in school.

I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.

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

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

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

I was put in remedial everything.

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

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.

In my first few years of elementary school at the Edison School in Detroit, I did poorly. I remember worrying that I might fail the second grade and be held back.

I never thrived in high school.

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

If the student sitting in a class is unable to understand anything day in and day out, then that has a serious and long-term psychological impact on his/her life.

I was never good academically. It was mainly my own fault.

I was a terrible student.