Atishi Quotes

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

In elementary school, I did well in science, but I was a poor writer. When I got to high school, I failed all my courses.

That's correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write.

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

I was a terrible student.

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

I've always been slightly embittered about computers because it was the only subject I failed at school.

One of the problems is that kids who don't read - who are not doing well in school - they know they're not doing well. And they want everyone to be in that same category.

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

I was a dummy in school.

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

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

Many people with dyslexia truly suffer, and their lives are worse off for having had that disability.

I was always behind in class. There was people in my class who was amazing at art, amazing at maths, amazing at English, but I wasn't clever with anything, even though I tried my hardest.

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

I hated school. I travelled so much in my early years that I didn't understand the process. I felt suffocated - not like I was some grandiose artist; I just felt like an alien.

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 got kicked out of high school, went to 3 different high schools and summer school and extra night school just so I could maybe graduate and try to make it up, because I flunked pretty much my entire freshman year, mainly because I just never showed up.

What I remember most vividly was the sense of always being a little behind the other kids in class - that sense of I wasn't cut out for class or I wasn't cut out to read.

I did badly in high school. I don't know why, but I failed all my exams. Then I took them again.

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 never thrived in high school.

I wasn't very good at school and appalling at English.

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.