Richard Branson Quotes

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

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.

I dropped out or got kicked out of four high schools.

I wasn't good at school.

I was pretty anti-academic, and I wasn't much of a student. I had a really short attention span and did not get a lot out of high school academically. I think college was a little the same way.

I do a lot of work with the Dyslexia Institute because, for people with dyslexia who do not have parental support, it is a huge disadvantage. I was fortunate because my Mum was a teacher and she taught me to work hard.

I was really rubbish at school.

I was a terrible student. For me, to take a book home was a trial.

I've lived with my dyslexia and gone on to have a successful recording career, but academically I never had a chance in hell because I didn't fall into that bracket.

Growing up with dyslexia and struggling in the classroom because of it, I know how infuriating and frustrating it can be to be treated wrongly as though you're of below par intelligence.

I wasn't dyslexic, I was just very slow. I passed my time daydreaming.

I wasn't the best student. I wasn't stupid, but I wasn't paying a lot of attention.

I was dyslexic, so math and formulas were not necessarily my strong suit.

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.

I was a dummy in school.

I'm completely dyslexic, so academia was never really my path.

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 was never really good in school.

When nobody read, dyslexia wasn't a problem. When most people had to hunt, a minor genetic variation in your ability to focus attention was hardly a problem, and may even have been an advantage. When most people have to make it through high school, the same variation can become a genuinely life-altering disease.

I sucked in school.

I'm not good at normal things. I can't drive a car. I couldn't read till I was 10.

Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.

I've had such a hard time with dyslexia my whole life. When I was a child, I didn't learn to read until I was a lot older, and I was behind in my classes; it was such a challenge.

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

My sister is dyslexic, and she's so smart, so intelligent in all of the ways that matter.