Special Education Quotes - Page 2

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

  Margaret Spellings

  Education, Kansas, Understanding

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

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• It is better for the heart to break, than not to break.

  Mary Oliver

  Heart, Break

  Mary Oliver (1995). “Blue Pastures”, Harcourt

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• 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.

  Joe Baca

  School, Special, Needs

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• 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.

  Mary Oliver

  Inspirational, Sweet, Soul

  FaceBook post by Mary Oliver from Mar 28, 2017

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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.

  Wendell Phillips

  War, Reading, Men

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.40

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• I did get a degree in special education.

  Clay Aiken

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• 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.

  Masiela Lusha

  Children, Believe, School

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist, and my father an advertising executive. They are about as wacky as you can get without being alcoholics.

  Sloane Crosley

  Mother, Teacher, Father

  "Book Talk: Sloane Crosley hits brothels and clowns in new essays". Interview with Belinda Goldsmith, www.reuters.com. June 23, 2010.

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• 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.

  Jacquelyn Jablonski

  School, Kids, Home

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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