Discussing Autism

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

Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity. – Deborah Meier

The most extraordinary thing about a really good teacher is that he or she transcends accepted educational methods. Such methods are designed to help average teachers approximate the performance of good teachers. – Margaret Mead

The highest result of education is tolerance. – Helen Keller

Nine tenths of education is encouragement. – Anatole France

We learn…
10% of what we read
20% of what we hear
30% of what we see
50% of what we both hear and see
70% of what is discussed
80% of what we experience personally
95% of what we teach to someone else
– William Glasser

And as Albert Einstein said long before, We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. – Albert Einstein

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
Marlene Dietrich

When you take a drug to treat high blood pressure or diabetes, you have an objective test to measure blood pressure and the amount of sugar in the blood. It is straight-forward. With autism, you are looking for changes in behavior.
Temple Grandin

Autism is the fastest growing developmental disability in our nation.
Mary Bono

“If a child cannot learn in the way we teach … we must teach in a way the child can learn.”

José Ortega Gasset (Spanish philosopher and statesman 1883 - 1955)
He who wishes to teach us a truth should not tell it to us, but simply suggest it with a brief gesture which starts an ideal trajectory in the air along which we glide until we find . . . the new truth.

Jerry Garicia of the Grateful Dead
Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

Mohandas K. Gandhi
The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children.

If we are to attain real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a war against war, we will have to begin with the children.