Pierce Brosnan Quotes

I was a completely below-average high school student. I never went to college.

I was always behind in class. There was people in my class who was amazing at art, amazing at maths, amazing at English, but I wasn't clever with anything, even though I tried my hardest.

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.

When I was in grade school, my teachers decided I was just about the dumbest thing to come through the door in a long time. Whatever the lesson, whatever the subject, I would sit and listen to them with a lost, glassy-eyed expression on my face.

I had a lot of trouble in school to begin with. I got left back in kindergarten, and I was in special education. My teachers didn't have very much faith in me.

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

I went to a private school, and I struggled academically. It was really disheartening to always be considered bad at that.

I was a high school throw-out.

I had lots of trouble in school as a child, and I lost confidence. Teachers thought I was stupid. I learned to read very late, when I was 11. Dyslexia wasn't recognized then, and the assumption was you were incapable of thinking.

I was always the black sheep of the family and always told that I was dumb, and I had a low IQ and did badly in school.

The American education system couldn't be more badly directed or poorly funded if the Secretary of Education were Ed Wood.

I didn't go to university; I hardly went to school, but I grew up among people well versed in Henry James and Proust, and just felt this endless, total inadequacy.

I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's why I became an actor.

We spend a lot of time training and retraining. It's heartbreaking because our education system has failed all of us. And again you go to China, even Mexico, Brazil the education systems are valued - ours are not in this country at K-12 level. It's amazing how that change has transpired in my lifetime.

I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.

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

Children don't drop out of high school when they are 16, they do so in the first grade and wait 10 years to make it official.

Me not finishing school - in my head, I still have this insecurity when I'm talking to someone educated.

If I didn't finish high school, I would wonder about that part of my life.

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

I grew up thinking that because I couldn't read, I was stupid and would never amount to anything. I worked my way through college as a waitress and thought I wasn't capable of doing anything else. My grades in English were horrible, and I barely got through.

I kind of tried my hand at sports and school, and I wasn't very apt at either one of those things.

My dad had to quit school when he was in third grade. My mom had to quit school. They didn't know what I needed, and I didn't know what I needed to keep wrestling and go to school, so that's why I had to go to community college.

There are 45 million children in Africa who are not in school. While other children are learning, exploring, and growing in the myriad ways that children were meant to grow, these children are trapped in a life of constant struggle. Without education, how can they be expected to escape such struggle? How can their children?

HB 2 leaves 90% of the children behind. The disconnect between this bill and the basic needs of Texas schoolchildren is appalling.