Special Education Quotes

• Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

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• In special education, there's too much emphasis placed on the deficit and not enough on the strength.

  Temple Grandin

  Special, Too Much, Enough

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  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.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Rhythm of Life : Living Every Day with Passion and Purpose" by Matthew Kelly, (p. 80), 2004.

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• '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.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Children, School, Accountability

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  Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

  Xunzi

  Inspiring, Leadership, Teacher

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• 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.

  Barbara Coloroso

  Inspirational, Family, Teacher

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

  Lourdes Garcia-Navarro

  Teacher, Special, Harder

  "Maybe Teaching Special Ed Doesn't Have To Be So Hard". "All Things Considered" with Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, kuer.org. January 15, 2017.

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• 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.

  Seymour Papert

  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.

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• 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.

  John W. Gardner

  Education, Flower, Teaching

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• It's not a competition, it's a doorway.

  Mary Oliver

  Competition, Doorways

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• 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

  James Heckman

  Education, Children, Opportunity

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• 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.

  Clay Aiken

  Autism, Special, Study

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

  Mary Oliver

  Love Yourself, World, Forget

  Mary Oliver (2009). “Evidence: Poems”, p.39, Beacon Press

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• 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.

  Clay Aiken

  School, Kids, Opportunity

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• With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when he says: 'I want my child to be able to write contracts in Spanish,' or, 'I want my child to shake hands firmly,' or, 'I want my child to study statistics and accounting, not calculus.

  Amity Shlaes

  Children, Writing, School

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

  Mary Oliver

  Attitude, Blessed, Needs

  Mary Oliver (2009). “Evidence: Poems”, p.21, Beacon Press

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• 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

  Opportunity, Men, Entrepreneur

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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• 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.

  Shakira

  Children, College, Childhood

  Source: www.americasquarterly.org

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• 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.

  Clay Aiken

  Opportunity, Sight, Careers

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• 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.

  Mary Oliver

  World, Weight, Want

  Mary Oliver (2013). “New and Selected Poems, Volume One”, p.102, Beacon Press

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• 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.

  Indira Gandhi

  Daughter, Mother, Father

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• I'd like to work with kids in special education - younger kids.

  John Madden

  Kids, Special

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• I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.

  Al Gore

  President, Special, Firsts

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• 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

  Christian, Book, Writing

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.74, HarperCollins UK

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• One of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Special, Needs

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.123, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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