Low Achievement Quotes

The soft bigotry of low expectations

I got a GED based on Catholic school seventh-grade education, really. I didn't make it that far.

The primary limitation in life is our low expectations for ourselves and others. When we expect minimum results, that's usually what we get.

I was a terrible student. I didn't graduate magna cum laude: I graduated 'Thank you, Lawdy!'

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

My parents wanted me to be smart and be a scholar, and the best I could do was graduate high school.

I went to Washington to challenge the soft bigotry of low expectations

The fact is I never was too bright in school. I just barely graduated. I had a D- average. I ain't ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do principals make a month?

One of the problems is that kids who don't read - who are not doing well in school - they know they're not doing well. And they want everyone to be in that same category.

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

My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.

I was the kid who never won the races... I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.

I was never really good in school.

I was terrible at school.

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

It bothers me when I don't score.

I don't think anyone can accept us being 51st in the country dealing with fourth-grade math scores and reading scores in the fourth and sixth grades that are close to the bottom. That's not acceptable. It's not acceptable to the people of Alabama.

I didn't do very well academically; I was always in the bottom class.

I was at the foot of my class.

I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.

I was really rubbish at school.

I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would.

I coasted through high school. I was 203rd in a class of 987.

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

I was not a great student.