Ben Carson Quotes

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

I flunked three grades before I got out of high school.

Academically, I was thick. School wasn't bad, but I was.

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.

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

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.

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 was very active but I was dyslexic and had a really hard time at school.

I wasn't a good student in high school. I mean, I got through it, but unless it had something to do with music, it didn't really interest me.

I was terrible at school.

School and I never seemed to walk hand in hand.

In school, I was an underachiever.

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 was really rubbish at school.

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.

What I remember most vividly was the sense of always being a little behind the other kids in class - that sense of I wasn't cut out for class or I wasn't cut out to read.

At school, I had to work really hard to get a D in maths. And I wasn't slacking off; I actually did work quite hard.

For me, school was a nightmare. I struggled.

So much of school, you have to write, but I just struggled. I couldn't help it.

I struggled academically in high school because it was hard to focus. It was hard to focus on those things that were other than artistic stuff.

I was having a hard time at school, in terms of being crap at everything, with no discernible talent.

I was on the whole considerably discouraged by my school days... It is not pleasant to feel oneself so completely outclassed and left behind at the very beginning of the race.

A surprise trigonometry quiz that everyone in class fails? Must be in the Lord’s plan to give us challenges.