Nikolaas Tinbergen Quotes

I didn't mind being in school. But I was usually uninspired and always late. I did what I had to, but not more.

I was a horrible student.

I was terrible at school.

I found that I was just hopeless at school. It was just a total bore. First, I passed in art and English, and then just art. Then I passed out.

I was not a great student.

I'm not studious at all. I'm really far from that. I have been better at everything else. I find school terribly tiresome and boring.

I never read in school. I got really bad grades-D's and F's and C's in some classes, and A's and B's in other classes. In the second week of the 11th grade, I just quit. When I was in school, it was really difficult. Almost everything I learned, I had to learn by listening. My report cards always said that I was not living up to my potential.

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

I was a horrible student. I really hated school.

I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.

I didn't really have a favourite subject at school as I was useless at everything.

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.

The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.

In school, I was an underachiever.

I was really rubbish at school.

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.

I was always ranked last in my class. My problem was that I would obtain a just pass and move on to the next class!

I was not into school at all.

I was a terrible student.

I had a major in business, and I graduated with a business degree, but I was perhaps the worst student to graduate from that program.

School reports were always pretty bad - I never ever did my homework. I always turned up for lessons as I liked my teachers but my report said I didn't try very hard.

I myself scraped seven poor passes at O-level.

I sucked in school.

I was no great achiever at school, either academically or in the sporting field... I was always tending to be in trouble.