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  • What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge.

    War   Reading   Men  
    Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.40
  • Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

    "The Rhythm of Life : Living Every Day with Passion and Purpose" by Matthew Kelly, (p. 80), 2004.
  • In special education, there's too much emphasis placed on the deficit and not enough on the strength.

  • If kids come to us from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.

  • Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

  • Anyone who is honestly trying to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened: one of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself. That is why an uneducated believer like Bunyan was able to write a book that has astonished the whole world.

    C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.74, HarperCollins UK
  • One of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself.

    C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.123, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • It's not a competition, it's a doorway.

  • Sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed.

    Mary Oliver (2009). “Evidence: Poems”, p.21, Beacon Press
  • If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others.

  • Undoubtedly, there are kids with intellectual deficiencies or neurological problems. But a lot of kids shunted into special education classes are deficient only in a willingness to conform to the school pattern.They are just honest, brave kids who say, "I just won't take that, and I don't believe in what you're doing." If you give them an alternative to the usual classroom, they break free of a lot of inhibitions and bad associations, and they begin to learn.

    Believe   School   Kids  
    "Sunday Interview - Seymour Papert/ Computers in the Lives of Our Children/ an Mit Mathematician and Philosopher Is Exploring How Technology Can Educate the Next Generation - and Their Parents". www.sfgate.com. February 2, 1997.
  • English was my fourth language. I arrived, I enrolled in public school, as a child, I believe I was about six years old when we finally landed in Michigan. And I was initially put in special education because I couldn't quite wrap my mind around the English language because I was listening to Hungarian and Albanian and German. My mind broke down like I couldn't quite wrap my mind around the fourth language.

    Source: thecelebritycafe.com
  • Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled---to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe even to float a little above this difficult world.

    World   Weight   Want  
    Mary Oliver (2013). “New and Selected Poems, Volume One”, p.102, Beacon Press
  • I did get a degree in special education.

  • Ten times a day something happens to me like this - some strengthening throb of amazement - some good sweet empathic ping and swell. This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness.

    FaceBook post by Mary Oliver from Mar 28, 2017
  • I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to try and help kids with disabilities.

  • 'No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms.

  • Love yourself. Then forget it. Then, love the world.

    Mary Oliver (2009). “Evidence: Poems”, p.39, Beacon Press
  • I'd like to work with kids in special education - younger kids.

  • Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.

    School   Special   Needs  
  • The best way to improve the American workforce in the 21st century is to invest in early childhood education, to ensure that even the most disadvantaged children have the opportunity to succeed along side their more advantaged peers

  • A good special education teacher is hard to find and even harder to hang on to.

    "Maybe Teaching Special Ed Doesn't Have To Be So Hard". "All Things Considered" with Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, kuer.org. January 15, 2017.
  • It is better for the heart to break, than not to break.

    Mary Oliver (1995). “Blue Pastures”, Harcourt
  • I'm actually working on with Autism Speaks. Since my brother's 18, I wanted to work on a program for these older kids. A lot of the schools' special education programs end when the kids are 21, like my brother's school. What is next for these kids? I want him to be constantly active, and not just sitting at home. I want him to be constantly growing and it would be amazing if the funds could go to something like jobs for these kids, or a home where they can be together.

    School   Kids   Home  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • For me it's absolutely the same - I treat one and the other in exactly the same way. As persons, that is, not as men and women. But, even here, you have to consider the fact that I've had a very special education, that I'm the daughter of a man like my father and a woman like my mother.

    Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.
  • I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.

  • An entrepreneur cannot be trained. A man becomes and entrepreneur by seizing an opportunity and filling the gap. No special education is required for such a display of keen judgment, foresight, and energy.

    Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”
  • A poor child who receives high-quality early childhood development is 40 percent less likely to need special education, twice as likely to attend college and dramatically more likely to survive childhood.

    Source: www.americasquarterly.org
  • I decided to study special education and fell in love with working with individuals with autism. That's what I planned to do with my life.

    Autism   Special   Study  
  • My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special education side.

    Interview with Lynn Olson and Erik W. Robele, www.edweek.org. February 9, 2005.
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