Ella Woodward Quotes

I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.

I don't learn so good, no matter how good the teacher is.

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

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

When I was in grade school, my teachers decided I was just about the dumbest thing to come through the door in a long time. Whatever the lesson, whatever the subject, I would sit and listen to them with a lost, glassy-eyed expression on my face.

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 no confidence at school. I was not a good student and I really thought I was pretty stupid. Just dumb.

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.

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.

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.

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

I was perhaps the worst student you have ever seen. You know, I thought I was stupid, all my classmates thought I was stupid, so there was general agreement.

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

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.

I never thrived in high school.

When you're growing up with a learning disability, it shoots your confidence and belief in what you can accomplish academically; it really damages it.

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 a terrible student.

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

I wasn't good at school.

My whole life, I've felt like I didn't quite measure up.

I was a horrible student. I really hated school.

I was never very good at exams, having a poor memory and finding the examination process rather artificial, and there never seemed to be enough time to follow up things that really interested me.