For me, school was a nightmare. I struggled.
I have made a career of creating characters who fight school authority and chomp at the bit to get out into the 'real' world and live their lives, mostly because that's the kind of teenager I was.
School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn.
School and I never seemed to walk hand in hand.
I went to a private school, and I struggled academically. It was really disheartening to always be considered bad at that.
School was never for me, kinda.
A classroom . People trying to stick me in classrooms was becoming as predictable and annoying as people trying to kill me, but with less-fun results.
I struggled academically throughout elementary school
For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn't fit in; my intelligence was elsewhere.
Like any other kid, I was trying so hard to fit in that school made no sense to me. I wasn't attending class; I was trying to hang out in the caf with the cool kids. I was always trying to be cool.
I had no confidence at school. I was not a good student and I really thought I was pretty stupid. Just dumb.
By the time I was a young man, I lived with two deep struggles: I longed to become a cricketer, and I performed miserably in school. Cricket and tennis were all that I lived for. In India, this was a formula for failure.
At school I was really heavily dyslexic, so I really struggled academically with reading and writing.
The American child, driven to school by bus and stupefied by television, is losing contact with reality. There is an enormous gap between the sheer weight of the textbooks that he carries home from school and his capacity to interpret what is in them.
I had a hard time going back to school after T2. I really didn't want to go to private school.
