Andrew Lo 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.

I was very active but I was dyslexic and had a really hard time at school.

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.

You can't separate me from my upbringing as a child overcoming learning disabilities and having to make my way through that.

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

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

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

I'm very slow. I'm a slow learner.

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

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

I have made number mistakes - I have such bad number dyslexia that I can look at a number and see the wrong one. I can't remember them worth beans.

I definitely have managed to overcome dyslexia now to become a fully functional human being but things were a lot more difficult when I was younger.

I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability.

It's very challenging to learn something new as an adult.

I sucked in school.

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

I flunked three grades before I got out of high school.

I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.

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.

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

I spent a lot of time in the school psychologist's office. I didn't apply myself. My mother thought I had learning disabilities.

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

Not every child learns the same way. I could not learn through my eyes. Reading was impossible. Math, to compute it in my mind, was impossible. I learned everything through listening.

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.