James William Middleton Quotes

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

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

'Late bloomer' is another way of saying 'slow learner.'

I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.

I'm very slow. I'm a slow learner.

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

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

It's very challenging to learn something new as an adult.

I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.

There's only so much academic disruption that a young child can deal with before he just can't catch up.

What makes this story so remarkable is that throughout my early childhood I had ongoing learning difficulties, particularly in mathematics. I struggled to learn the multiplication table, and no matter how hard I tried, I simply couldn't remember 6 times 7 or 7 times 8.

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

No one writes as slowly as I do, I'm convinced. It's so hard for me. I learn slowly; I make decisions at a snail's pace.

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

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

I was a very, very slow learner. I was good at nothing.

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.

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.

It took me a while to learn how to spell my own name.

I was never very good at school with... humanities... anything which was more a matter of opinion.

The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.

As a child, I was called stupid and lazy. On the SAT I got 159 out of 800 in math. My parents had no idea that I had a learning disability.

I, myself, was always recognized . . . as the “slow one” in the family. It was quite true, and I knew it and accepted it. Writing and spelling were always terribly difficult for me. My letters were without originality. I was . . . an extraordinarily bad speller and have remained so until this day.

You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school. Well guess what, I get F's!!!

Being very dyslexic I couldn't even tie my own shoe laces until the age of 21 and I struggled at school.