Bill Cosby Quotes

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

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

I sucked in school.

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

I was allergic to school. I was completely befuddled by school. I was trying so hard, but I couldn't succeed. I took geometry for four years, the same course over and over again, and I did not graduate with my senior class. I finally passed geometry after doing summer school, and eventually, I graduated.

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

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

I was never really good in school.

I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.

I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.

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

I had a lot of trouble in school to begin with. I got left back in kindergarten, and I was in special education. My teachers didn't have very much faith in me.

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

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

I was terrible at school.

Repeating a grade needs to be the last resort, not an automatic response to a child who is struggling to learn.

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

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.

To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.

I flunked three grades before I got out of high school.

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

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

In school, I was an underachiever.

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

I was really rubbish at school.