“I was very bored at school. I found it very easy and slow and grey. My teachers didn't really know how to handle me, because I was very sarcastic. I was over-confident, arrogant, a typical youngest child. I went through periods of withdrawing into myself and school psychologists tried to figure me out, work out why I didn't fit in. I found that irritating, too.” KnowsChildrenSchoolFoundEasyKnow HowTeacherFiguresPeriodsFitWork OutHandleBoredSarcasticArrogantTypicalGreyPsychologistIrritatingWithdrawingYoungest ChildOver ConfidentVery SarcasticHandle Me Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“If the attitude of the teacher toward the material is positive, enthusiastic, committed and excited, the students get that. If the teacher is bored, students get that and they get bored, quickly, instinctively.” IfsAttitudeTeacherStudentsMaterialsCommittedExcitedBoredEnthusiastic Author:David McCullough
“My mother taught me to read before I went to school, so I was pretty bored in school, and I turned into a little terror. You should have seen us in third grade. We basically destroyed our teacher. We would let snakes loose in the classroom and explode bombs.” ShouldLittlesSchoolMotherTeacherTaughtShould HaveThirdsTerrorDestroyedBoredBombsGradesClassroomSnakesThird Grade Author:Steve Jobs
“I loathed school. I don't have an academic mind, and besides I was so bored by my teachers! How teachers can take a child's inventiveness and say yes, yes, in that pontifical way of theirs, and smother everything!” WayMindChildrenSchoolTeacherBoredAcademicInventivenessSo Bored Author:John Hurt
“My mother had been an English teacher in India before she came to the U.K., and she taught me to read early on - not only in English, but in Hindi, too. My teachers didn't like the fact that I was reading more quickly than they were teaching, and as a consequence, I would sometimes get bored in class.” SometimesFactsMotherReadingClassTeacherTeachingTaughtConsequenceIndiaBoredHindiEnglish TeacherReading More Author:Sanjeev Bhaskar