Carre Otis Quotes

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

'Late bloomer' is another way of saying 'slow learner.'

I was fine with numbers, but it took me a longer time to grasp simple things like spellings.

I was a very, very slow learner. I was good at nothing.

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

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

What makes this story so remarkable is that throughout my early childhood I had ongoing learning difficulties, particularly in mathematics. I struggled to learn the multiplication table, and no matter how hard I tried, I simply couldn't remember 6 times 7 or 7 times 8.

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.

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

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

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

What I remember most vividly was the sense of always being a little behind the other kids in class - that sense of I wasn't cut out for class or I wasn't cut out to read.

I struggled academically in high school because it was hard to focus. It was hard to focus on those things that were other than artistic stuff.

Education had been easy. Learning things had been harder.

I wasn't good at school.

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 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.

I remember failing reading in school at a young age, and you just kinda get left behind and I felt helpless.

I'm not good at normal things. I can't drive a car. I couldn't read till I was 10.

There's only so much academic disruption that a young child can deal with before he just can't catch up.

I'm quite dyslexic in school.

I was not good in school. I could never read very fast or very well. I got tested for learning disabilities, for dyslexia. Then I got put on Ritalin and Dexedrine. I took those starting in the eighth grade. As soon as they pumped that drug into me, it would focus me right in.

I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school.

I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.