Carol W. Greider Quotes

Most of the time I liked school and got good grades. In junior high, though, I hit a stumbling block with math - I used to come home and cry because of how frustrated I was! But after a few good teachers and a lot of perseverance, I ended up loving math and even choosing it as a major when I got to college.

I can get motivated seeing a kid at my son's school overcome a learning disability.

It was hard for me, being in school. And nobody was there to tell me how important it was.

Everybody has fallen down or been disappointed in love. Where you truly shine is when you get back up. Use it as a learning experience and believe in all of the possibilities.

I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.

I know what not being able to read can do to a child's confidence.

I didn't read a book until I was 31 years old when I was diagnosed with dyslexia. Books terrified me. They made me nervous. Now I know you can travel to the bottom of the ocean or to outer space or anywhere in between without leaving your armchair, and I'm so, so sorry I couldn't read when I was younger.

I had once been told my ability to read would only reach that of a ten-year-old, but I was determined to achieve more.

I have a chart for success at school because it gave me a great deal of pleasure. It opened my mind to the world. I learned to read.

I'm a bit dyslexic so I found learning to read hard. I muddled up the letters but learnt to power through.

What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.

A Confucian or Jewish love of learning would gain minorities far more than any affirmative action laws we might pass.

Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

My number one goal was not getting 'A's' - and I proved it. I was a 'C' student. You have to be ready to learn. If you're not interesting in learning, it doesn't work. As I grew older and wanted to learn and desperately wanted inside information, learning was a lot easier.

Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

Few things are as essential as education.

I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.

I was always a good student, but I didn't read that much until I was 18 and I was working my way through college.

Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.

So my son is very curious, which is fantastic. He loves school. So I don't have to encourage him too much, but I love to do it because I know it's meaningful and words are powerful.

I think I was 16 when I had the thought of maybe being a writer. And this is complicated, something I only now understand, because when I was young, having dyslexia and not knowing it made reading such an ordeal.

I wasn't good at examinations, but I went to a very good secondary school - Bolton-on-Dearne - with wonderful teachers, who taught me drama and encouraged me in every way.

I just want to show the world it's never too late to get your diploma, and show kids they should stay in school and not wait until you're old to get it.

Time and again, a student will send me an urgent appeal to hear her, saying she is poor and wants my advice as to whether it is worthwhile to continue her studies. I invariably refuse such requests, saying that if the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it.