Tim Howard Quotes

I was a dummy in school.

I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.

In school, I was an underachiever.

The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that.

I was a good student, but I didn't like school.

I wasn't a good student in high school. I mean, I got through it, but unless it had something to do with music, it didn't really interest me.

I was never really good in school.

I myself scraped seven poor passes at O-level.

When I went to college, I was doing well in school, but I didn't have any drive to study.

I was a very earnest, hard working boy at school, but my parents were distressed because I was always bottom of the class. But I wasn't dilatory, I worked like crazy.

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

You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.

Most of my teachers didn't like me. I didn't get good grades because I pretty much lived at the public access studio. I tried to be the class clown, so I spent a lot of time in detention.

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 put in remedial everything.

From age 16 on, I found school boring and failed A-level Physics at my first attempt. This was necessary for university entrance, and so I stayed an extra year to repeat it. This time, I did splendidly and was admitted to Sheffield University, my first choice because of their excellent Chemistry Department.

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

I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me.

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

I just didn't like going to school.

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

Knowing what to expect from a teacher is a really good thing, of course: It lets you get the right answers more quickly than you would otherwise.

The single most important factor in determining [student] achievement is not the color of skin or where they come from. It is not who their parents are or how much money they have. It is who their teacher is.