Joan Collins Quotes

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.

I remember failing reading in school at a young age, and you just kinda get left behind and I felt helpless.

I'm not a nerd, don't plan to be a nerd and read books - which I can't do at all.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.

When I went to school, I was already reading and writing. In fact, I was offended that the other kids couldn't.

There's been an unquestionable decline in American culture. The education system is thin on the ground. People don't read as deeply and at length as they used to. And the media has been scattered into so many cable channels.

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

I had once been told my ability to read would only reach that of a ten-year-old, but I was determined to achieve more.

The state of our educational system is a disgrace to our country. We have an elementary and secondary school system in which close to half of the youngsters never graduate properly. It's a disgrace that there is more illiteracy today than there was 100 years ago.

One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeeding in exams, and there are plenty of them. But what we should also be looking at, and a lot more urgently, is those who fail.

The U. S. is suffering greatly by the defects of the educational system .... we are producing an underclass.

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

Children don't drop out of high school when they are 16, they do so in the first grade and wait 10 years to make it official.

George W. Bush was a little sub literate.

Students who spend their lives in segregated schools can look forward to a life on the margins.

I cannot remember not being able to read.

Our scholastic system isn't structured to make sure that kids in the fifth or sixth grades absolutely know how to read.

The list of costly services that supplement some children's public education is growing longer and now includes consultants, tutors, and test prep. That's in addition to the homework help some stay-at-home parents can afford to provide.

One of society's thorniest problems is that children from poor families start school lagging badly behind their more affluent classmates in readiness.

Of course, the American education system is very inefficient in many ways compared to other countries in Europe or Japan, but it works in such a way that at least the few people who are going onto unusual careers and science can manage to get into that, even though they go through an earlier stage that doesn't give them much.

What makes me unusually intense is that I personalize the pain of war, the pain of children being killed, the pain of a 16-year-old who has been permanently cheated by his school and cannot read.

I didn't read a book until I was 31 years old when I was diagnosed with dyslexia. Books terrified me. They made me nervous. Now I know you can travel to the bottom of the ocean or to outer space or anywhere in between without leaving your armchair, and I'm so, so sorry I couldn't read when I was younger.

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.

Too often, our most vulnerable students - English-language learners, immigrants, poor kids, teenage parents, students with behavioral problems and learning disabilities - fall through the cracks.