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I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.

— Scott Hamilton

When I was in grade school, my teachers decided I was just about the dumbest thing to come through the door in a long…

— W. Bruce Cameron

The older I got, the smarter my teachers became.

— Ally Carter

“I used my brains to outsmart teachers—and that wasn't very smart at all.”

— L.J. Smith

Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!

— Steve Wozniak

When I was 14 or 15, a camp counselor told me I was smart. I had never been very good in school, but he…

— Alan Dershowitz

I was so smart when I was a kid that I learnt that I was dumb fast.

— Charles Manson

I didn't say I was that smart, I said I went to class and I enjoyed what I was doing.

— Willie Mays

I wasn't the best student. I wasn't stupid, but I wasn't paying a lot of attention.

— Denis Leary

But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought…

— Robert Sternberg

I was stupid when I was 17 or 18. My thought process was that I thought that I was legitimately a hyper-genius, and so…

— Tucker Max

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.

— Gracie Allen