Channing Tatum Quotes

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

My wife has a public charter school for children with dyslexia. Almost every one of them has failed in a public school.

At school I was really heavily dyslexic, so I really struggled academically with reading and writing.

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

In retrospect, I think I had some kind of learning disorder. I could kind of charm my way through grade school, but in high school... I could never seem to grasp things.

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

I was a dyslexic kid.

I was dyslexic before anybody knew what dyslexia was. I was called 'slow'. It's an awful feeling to think of yourself as 'slow' - it's horrible.

I didn't do plays at school, because I didn't have the confidence. At 14, I was at boarding school in Devon and I suffered from dyslexia quite badly, but they had a very good department there which specialised in it.

I probably went all the way to junior high school before a school doctor told me that I was 'dyslexic.'

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

I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school.

When I was in primary school I was in a special needs group, which is the polite way of saying the dopey kids.

There is a systemic problem in this country, where schools are often forcing parents to turn to Ritalin.

I wasn't great in class and suffered from dyslexia and ADHD; still do. As a result I could never sit in class listening quietly, and my attention would inevitably end up wandering after a short while.

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

I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning.

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

I didn't learn to read until I was almost 14 years old. Reading out loud for me was a nightmare because I would mispronounce words or reconstruct things that weren't even there. That's when one of my teachers discovered I had a learning disability called dyslexia. Once I got help, I read very well!

As a person, when I was seven or eight, my dad would try very hard to tutor me through school because I had learning difficulties or whatever. I would wish that they could just plant a chip in my brain so that I would know everything and not have to study.

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.

So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.

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 went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to try and help kids with disabilities.

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