Failing In School Quotes

#1. I was working at Kentucky Fried Chicken when my math teacher said, "You're failing in school, you're messing up, why don't you just try this?" I said, "Alright, let me try it," and I started going to acting classes and I loved it. I thought, "I may not make it but I love doing it."

John Leguizamo

#2. I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits.

Dustin Hoffman

#3. It's pretty popular today to say that everybody should learn to fail and that failure's a good thing. Intellectually, it's an obvious thing. But in fact, it gets conflated with another meaning of failure, so when we grow up as kids, failing in school was a really bad thing.

Edwin Catmull

#4. He (a teacher at school) was the epitome of the Oxonian code of "effortless superiority" whereby to be seen trying really hard to achieve something was in many ways worse than actually failing it.

John Cleese

#5. Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.

Mark Skousen

#6. The less literate are the first to fail and drop out of school.

Stephen D. Krashen

#7. I was talking and playing pranks and skipping school, failing pretty much every class I took.

Tig Notaro

#8. American [public] schools are failing because they are organized according to a bureaucratic, monopolistic model; their organizing principle is basically the same as that of a socialist economy.

David Boaz

#9. As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best.

Alice Walker

#10. When kids start school, families often have little choice over where they can go. Sometimes, children are forced into a failing school simply because their parents live in a certain district, and that school is the only option.

Kevin McCarthy

#11. If the government is going to mandate levels and punish schools for failing, they should send that money to the school system.

Robert Duncan

#12. I just have a position that any child that's in a failing school should be able to get out, or be in a position to have that school fixed.

John Engler

#13. I was not much interested in school, and both at secondary school and at university, I only just scraped through, with as little effort as I judged possible without failing.

Nikolaas Tinbergen

#14. You no more have the right to risk others by failing to vaccinate than you do by sending your child to school with a hunting knife. Vaccination isn't a private choice but a civic obligation.

Nicholas Kristof

#15. The new program for children in failing schools will be the largest statewide school choice program in the nation. The creation of that program plus the expansion of two others illustrates that states with the greatest experience with school choice are the most likely to expand it.

Clint Bolick

#16. When you're in school, every little mistake is a permanent crack in your windshield. But in the real world, if you're not swerving around and hitting the guard rails every now and then, you're not going fast enough. Your biggest risk isn't failing; it's getting too comfortable.

Drew Houston

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

Kevin O'Leary

#18. Going to school is like going to prison ... you have about two weeks to establish your credibility, failing which you're either a punk or as good as dead. Depending on the school, some students can manage ot avoid those stark alternatives, but even at the best school, no teacher does.

Garret Keizer

#19. Business schools are failing to teach the students about the risks of market failures. We need to include some material on market failures in the core of curriculum.

Pankaj Ghemawat

#20. I'll fail."
"At schoool.""Failing at school is failing at life.

Ned Vizzini

#21. I went to a failing school, and by the grace of God, my mother was able to put me into private school, and had she not, I would probably be in a gang or dead right now, because that was the road I was going down.

Stacey Dash