Joel Grey Quotes

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

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

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

What makes this story so remarkable is that throughout my early childhood I had ongoing learning difficulties, particularly in mathematics. I struggled to learn the multiplication table, and no matter how hard I tried, I simply couldn't remember 6 times 7 or 7 times 8.

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.

Our youth of today, it is to be feared, is backward to learn; studies are accounted irksome.

I was fine with numbers, but it took me a longer time to grasp simple things like spellings.

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

When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.

I tested in the top percentile for IQ, but I couldn't tie my shoes or really ride a bike without training wheels until I was almost 7.

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 remember failing reading in school at a young age, and you just kinda get left behind and I felt helpless.

I'm a little slow, so forgive me if I'm inarticulate.

I'm quite dyslexic in school. My dad let me figure out what I wanted to do on my own. My parents never really lecture me.

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

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

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

I was put in remedial everything.

There's only so much academic disruption that a young child can deal with before he just can't catch up.

I was not naturally intellectual, but somebody whose interest had to be whetted, still the case sadly.

No one writes as slowly as I do, I'm convinced. It's so hard for me. I learn slowly; I make decisions at a snail's pace.

I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.

Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.

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.

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