I was no scholar in college, and was arrogant about what I thought.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant.
I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.
I wasn't very good in academics, but I could have been if I could have studied well. I was a smart kid.
I never went to class. That the university graduated me at all is an indictment of our educational system.
I wasn't the most confident kid in school and college.
At college, I wasn't passionate about anything I was studying.
I was a decent student but not a great student.
I felt slightly superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as slightly more seasoned. I became quite cynical talking to my student friends.
I didn't go to university; I hardly went to school, but I grew up among people well versed in Henry James and Proust, and just felt this endless, total inadequacy.
I had been an academic all my life. As academics, you tend to believe the smartest people are in academia.