Student Struggles Quotes

The purpose of school should be to prepare kids for the rest of their lives, but too often what kids need to be prepared for is surviving the school day itself.

To defend your major is pretty tough.

What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one's wrists?

I was a struggling college student like everyone else. I bicycled to class.

There is an old story about the boy at Eton who committed suicide. The other boys in his house were gathered together and asked if any of them could suggest a reason for the tragedy. After a long silence a small boy in the front put up his hand: 'Could it have been the food, sir?

Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.

Actually, most mathematics courses do not teach reasoning of any kind. Students are so baffled by the material that they are obliged to memorize in order to pass examinations.

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

I was not a happy or popular or happy-with-myself kid, and I wasn't an especially motivated student, either.

People like to say don't abort, adopt. But I'm saying don't strip, scholarship.

Too many children today are trapped in schools that don't work for them.

When you're a student and you just want some money to feel like you're an adult, you'll pretty much do anything within reason.

If the student sitting in a class is unable to understand anything day in and day out, then that has a serious and long-term psychological impact on his/her life.

I went to university and I was a bit out of my depth, socially.

The students realize that it's their life I'm talking about: it's out of balance, they're struggling to put it into balance. How are they going to do it?

I was a very bad student... I was ahead in many things, but when the time came to study, I just made a face and used to feel bad that I had to study.

Well, maybe it was just that I wasn't going to like anybody because I had to work and I had to explain to my teachers why I wasn't keeping up. I'd fall asleep and things in class and they'd lecture me about the reality of their classroom. I said, 'You want to see my reality?' I opened up my backpack to where you usually keep your pencils. That's where I kept my bills... electric bills, rent... That was my reality.

I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it.

People think of poetry as a school subject... Poetry is very frustrating to students because they don't have a taste for ambiguity, for one thing. That gives them a poetry hangover.

Many children struggle in schools... because the way they are being taught is incompatible with the way they learn.

School used to be an escape. Now it's just another place with too much pressure, too much confrontation, & so not enough joy.

Every day, I see my students work hard to overcome obstacles just to be in the classroom.

I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander.

I remember, in my senior year, one of my teachers taking me aside and saying: 'You look really tired.' This was when I was being a bad kid and she knew that something was wrong.

I didn't blend well with my classmates or my teachers.