It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word.
That is another of your odd notions," said the Prefect, who had a fashion of calling every thing "odd" that was beyond his comprehension, and thus lived amid an absolute legion of "oddities.
Have patience with the quarrelsomeness of the stupid. It is not easy to comprehend that one does not comprehend.
I failed everything in school. I left when I was 13 because I had no comprehension of what the hell they were talking about up there at the blackboard. I must have that ADD thing. But, listening to people I thought, that's wonderful to be able to tell a story.
It seems to me that people who don’t learn as easily as others suffer from a kind of learning disability—there is something different about the way they comprehend unfamiliar material—but I fail to see how this disability is improved by psychiatric consultation. What seems to be lacking is a technical ability that those of us called ‘good students’ are born with. Someone should concretely study these skills and teach them. What does a shrink have to do with the process?
No man born of woman has ever understood spoken Portuguese.
I wasn't very good at school and couldn't get my head round it.
I am a slow reader. I always loved words, which is a strange thing given that I couldn't actually read them.
