I never failed a class. Never.
I stood as well as any in my class, but the test of scholarship at that day was contemptible
The highest court in New York.
I was the one of those students who made the top half of the class possible.
Lots of middle class people are running around pretending to be Cockney.
When I was growing up, I always knew I'd be in the top of my class in math, and that gave me a lot of self-confidence.
With my academic achievement in high school, I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that.
While I wasn't very good at much else in school, in my creative-writing classes or when we had to do some writing in my English classes, I tended to do better at it.
A surprise trigonometry quiz that everyone in class fails? Must be in the Lord’s plan to give us challenges.
I was always getting in trouble because I was the class clown but I always made teacher laugh. I remember I thought I was going to fail that class but I ended up passing it and I really think it was only because I was good entertainment for her.
When popularity is your only goal, doing well in class is going to feature very low, if at all, on your priority list.
Give children healthy food and they behave better at school, concentrate more in class and perform better in exams.
