Academic Failure Quotes

I dropped out of college for the last time in 1977.

Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.

I was perhaps the worst student you have ever seen. You know, I thought I was stupid, all my classmates thought I was stupid, so there was general agreement.

People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.

I was in college for two years but I didn´t attend too much. Then I decided to drop out. I was having too many nightmares about failing in the exams.

When I went to do law, I kind of drifted through that and thought, 'I can pass these exams.' And I didn't - I failed three times, and each time I did worse and failed by a bigger margin. And that taught me so much.

Those who do not know history are probably also not doing well in English or math. P.J. O'Rourke

I quit college so fast I didn't even clean out my locker.

Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.

I left school at 15, didn't pick up my GCSEs, didn't do A-levels, didn't go to uni.

I dropped out of school when I was 15 years old. I dropped out because I guess I wasn't getting anything out of my investment in the school.

However, I wasn't very good at the sciences, or didn't have a lot of help in the sciences or something but certainly didn't set science for my A level. And when I came to take my A levels I didn't get a good enough result to go to University.

Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers' unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.

At a certain point, the graduate school thing didn't work out, and that meant I was liberated.

Some of my academic friends think I've fallen from a very special grace.

Far too many of our children today, our students, need remedial education. We have been lying to them. They're not really ready for college. That's not higher education's fault. That's our fault K-12.

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

I took music theory for one year in high school and flunked all but one six-week period. That's because I couldn't read music, and the rest of the class was already eight or nine years into it. The teacher would sit down and hit a ten-fingered chord on the piano and you had to write all the notes down in about ten seconds. I just couldn't do it.

I'm embarrassed to admit that I didn't even do my A-levels.

The inaccuracy issue. Going back to college having a 56-percent completion percentage. Obviously, it's not great. But I think that it's a little blown out of proportion.

As a kid who failed out of high school as a freshman, I know firsthand and personally that sense of hopelessness and just being - drifting in the wrong direction, having really no hope. And being able to harness that frustration was incredibly valuable in my life. That's one of the reasons I focus so consistently on the foundation of education, because it helps to eviscerate those things that - unemployment, high jobless rates, poverty.

I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class.

A little learning is a dangerous thing. I must say that Rush Limbaugh is increasingly becoming a warning to kids of the perils of dropping out of school.

My chief identity, to my mind, was not 'writer' but 'college dropout.'

When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.