Academic Discouragement Quotes

I don't think that everyone should become a mathematician, but I do believe that many students don't give mathematics a real chance.

I went to college and did advanced electronical engineering, not really knowing what I wanted to do. It bored me to death, so I dropped out.

I took organic chemistry, and I got my first-ever F. I ended up going to summer school, and the whole time, I'm thinking, 'I am not good at sciences.'

I wanted to go to grad school in philosophy... Nobody was like, 'You should!' You know, they were all like, 'you could?'

I dropped out twice from a law degree because I didn't have time to do everything at once.

African American boys oftentimes fall behind in school early, start feeling discouraged, check out, drop out, end up on the streets and then get into trouble.

I bombed the LSAT and quickly discovered that law school wasn't for me.

I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics.

The learned are seldom pretty fellows, and in many cases their appearance tends to discourage a love of study in the young.

I kept going to different colleges, but dropped out.

It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.

I think the structures of exclusion are more systematically built up in American society, for example, so that young girls interested in science eventually lose their confidence over time. The structures of exclusion work against them. We have other structures of exclusion in India, but not around modern scientific knowledge.