Mark Twain Quotes

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

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

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

I never thrived in high school.

I was a bad student. I liked archaeology actually, I was interested in maybe becoming an archaeologist but I was such a bad student and had such bad grades that I wasn't going to get into any really good college so I fell back on acting.

But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you're stupid, they have low expectations for you.

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

I wasn't good at school.

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

In retrospect, I think I had some kind of learning disorder. I could kind of charm my way through grade school, but in high school... I could never seem to grasp things.

I was never very good at exams, having a poor memory and finding the examination process rather artificial, and there never seemed to be enough time to follow up things that really interested me.

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.

I had a pretty bad time when I was an undergraduate at Cornell University. I failed out of school. I was much, much heavier.

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

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

I was never really good in school.

I myself scraped seven poor passes at O-level.

I sucked in school.

I was the kind of kid who couldn't really stop making up stories during class. I didn't do very well academically because I was always drawing these little doodles in the margins of my notebooks and I wasn't bringing home the best grades.

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

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 flunked three grades before I got out of high school.

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.

I dropped out of college for the last time in 1977.