Educational Setbacks Quotes

I went to seven colleges. I was a professional transfer student. I had to drop out 'cause I couldn't see out the back window.

I failed eighth grade twice, and then they moved me up to ninth grade. Then I failed that and dropped out. My teacher would hand me a test, and I'd grade it myself with an F, then put my head down on the desk.

I have seen extreme lows because of factors that were not in my hands - be it not having money to buy my first bike, dropping out of a prestigious engineering college without having a single rupee in my bank account, living with seven boys in a single-room kitchen in Mumbai, or eating nothing but khichdi every day. But I cherish all those moments.

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

The most unsuccessful three years in the education of cost estimators appears to be fifth-grade arithmetic.

I struggled academically throughout elementary school

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

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

I failed every class up until I dropped out freshman year.

I was on the whole considerably discouraged by my school days... It is not pleasant to feel oneself so completely outclassed and left behind at the very beginning of the race.

I got expelled from every school I went to in Sydney.

I was a bad student. I liked archaeology actually, I was interested in maybe becoming an archaeologist but I was such a bad student and had such bad grades that I wasn't going to get into any really good college so I fell back on acting.

That's correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write.

I got kicked out of high school, went to 3 different high schools and summer school and extra night school just so I could maybe graduate and try to make it up, because I flunked pretty much my entire freshman year, mainly because I just never showed up.

A surprise trigonometry quiz that everyone in class fails? Must be in the Lord’s plan to give us challenges.

I flunked three grades before I got out of high school.

It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.

My intellectual achievement was retarded when I went to high school. I sort of sank into a black hole because I had to go to the high-achieving, academic public high school.

I got into Cambridge and it all went downhill.

I did badly in high school. I don't know why, but I failed all my exams. Then I took them again.