Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes

I was very disruptive. I was horrible. I didn't learn like all the other kids. I had to sometimes take my tests out in the hallways because I couldn't focus. But, my teachers would come see me in the plays and were like 'I don't understand how you can focus and be in the moment in a play and you go into math class and you can't focus.'

I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.

I wasn't great in class and suffered from dyslexia and ADHD; still do. As a result I could never sit in class listening quietly, and my attention would inevitably end up wandering after a short while.

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.

I didn't learn how to read until I was at the end of fifth grade and 11 years old and held back.

From the time I started school, it was clear to everyone that I wasn't learning at the same pace as other kids.

I wasn't good at school.

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

I was very unmotivated at school.

I was a pretty disruptive student in class in school. I had a hard time paying attention. I had what they call A.D.D. now, back then I was just a hyper kid.

I was very active but I was dyslexic and had a really hard time at school.

I tried college and I hated that. I seem to quit everything I do.

I was never really good in school.

Repeating a grade needs to be the last resort, not an automatic response to a child who is struggling to learn.

I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.

I was put in remedial everything.

School was rough for me. I was a good student in middle school, but high school wasn't so fun. I still pulled through, though! I excelled in art, fashion, history and English literature - anything creative. Math and science I struggled a bit more in.

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

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

Most of the time I liked school and got good grades. In junior high, though, I hit a stumbling block with math - I used to come home and cry because of how frustrated I was! But after a few good teachers and a lot of perseverance, I ended up loving math and even choosing it as a major when I got to college.

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

I was not a studious kid, and I struggled to find things that would command my attention and engage my ideas and energies.

I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.

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

Academically, I was thick. School wasn't bad, but I was.