Peter Hollingworth Quotes

I was a terrible student.

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

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

My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.

I was not a great student.

I was never good academically. It was mainly my own fault.

I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class.

I went to a private school, and I struggled academically. It was really disheartening to always be considered bad at that.

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 was never really good in school.

I was a horrible student.

I was terrible at school.

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

I was never a bright student, potentially never good at dramatics; I was sometimes given one-line roles that I was happy to do so that I could bunk classes. My mother used to cry three times a year, and that is when my report card used to come.

I was a completely below-average high school student. I never went to college.

I have this rather amazing report which, roughly speaking, says I was the worst student the biology master had ever taught.

I was not much interested in school, and both at secondary school and at university, I only just scraped through, with as little effort as I judged possible without failing.

I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.

Brian was the oldest, I was in the middle and Carl was the baby. I was the troublemaker. Brian got great grades and Carl got the kind of grades I did. I failed everything. I was too busy fighting and running wild.

In school, I was an underachiever.

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

I was really rubbish at school.

I was thrown out of every school I ever went to.

I didn't do well at school, and I don't have lots of academic reference points.

I was a terrible student. I didn't graduate magna cum laude: I graduated 'Thank you, Lawdy!'