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"Some autistic children cannot stand the sound of certain voices. I have come across cases where teachers tell me that certain children have problems with their voice or another person's voice. This problem tends to be related to high-pitched ladies' voices."

"Some autistic children cannot stand the sound of certain voices. I have come across cases where teachers tell me that certain children have problems with their voice or another person's voice. This problem tends to be related to high-pitched ladies' voices."

Temple Grandin, American Educator

Family, Children, Ladies, Problems, Sound

3

"Simplicity should not be identified with bareness."

"Simplicity should not be identified with bareness."

Felix Adler, German Educator

3

"It also called upon traditional people in the Four Directions to strengthen the healing ceremonies and asked people to heed the warnings of Mother Earth."

"It also called upon traditional people in the Four Directions to strengthen the healing ceremonies and asked people to heed the warnings of Mother Earth."

Dennis Banks, American Educator

Family, Mother, People, Earth, Healing

3

"Because religion has such a compelling hold on the deep psyches of so many people, feminists cannot afford to leave it in the hands of the fathers."

"Because religion has such a compelling hold on the deep psyches of so many people, feminists cannot afford to leave it in the hands of the fathers."

Carol P. Christ, American Educator

Religion, People, Deep, Fathers

3

"I think the greatest photographers are the amateur photographers who do it because they love it. Arnold Newman is a good example; he is a consummate professional, but he's also an 'amateur' in the pure sense of the word."

"I think the greatest photographers are the amateur photographers who do it because they love it. Arnold Newman is a good example; he is a consummate professional, but he's also an 'amateur' in the pure sense of the word."

John Sexton, American Educator

Love, Example, Sense, Word

3

"Research is starting to show that a child should be engaged at least 20 hours a week. I do not think it matters which program you choose as long as it keeps the child actively engaged with the therapist, teacher, or parent for at least 20 hours a week."

"Research is starting to show that a child should be engaged at least 20 hours a week. I do not think it matters which program you choose as long as it keeps the child actively engaged with the therapist, teacher, or parent for at least 20 hours a week."

Temple Grandin, American Educator

3

"The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do."

"The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do."

James Lipton, American Educator

3

"The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced."

"The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced."

D. Elton Trueblood, American Educator

Christian, Christianity, Hearing, World

3

"Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others, for the moral agency and rights of those others would then be violated."

"Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others, for the moral agency and rights of those others would then be violated."

Tom G. Palmer, American Educator

Equality, People, Rights

3

"Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill."

"Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill."

Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese Educator

Knowledge, Skill

3

"If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned."

"If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned."

Ward Churchill, American Educator

Death, Policy, Destruction, Foreignpolicy

3

"But to understand what it means to be strong and courageous, Christians should look to the person of Christ."

"But to understand what it means to be strong and courageous, Christians should look to the person of Christ."

Marvin Olasky, American Educator

Christian, Christ

3

"We are constantly protecting the male ego, and it's a disservice to men. If a man has any sensitivity or intelligence, he wants to get the straight scoop from his girlfriend."

"We are constantly protecting the male ego, and it's a disservice to men. If a man has any sensitivity or intelligence, he wants to get the straight scoop from his girlfriend."

Betty Dodson, American Educator

Intelligence, Men, Girlfriend, Ego

3

"Comedians don't laugh. They're too busy analyzing why it's funny or not."

"Comedians don't laugh. They're too busy analyzing why it's funny or not."

James Lipton, American Educator

Fun, Funny, Comedians

3

"Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion."

"Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion."

Leon Kass, American Educator

Science, Life, Meaning

3

"In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn."

"In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn."

Michael Pollan, American Educator

Food, Fossilfuel, Pollution, Zone

3

"A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay."

"A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay."

Amos Bronson Alcott, American Educator

Business, Government, Corruption

3

"We Americans have the great gifts of freedom and democracy, but it has been our education system that has fulfilled the promise of democracy."

"We Americans have the great gifts of freedom and democracy, but it has been our education system that has fulfilled the promise of democracy."

James E. Rogers, American Educator

Education, Americans, Democracy, Freedom

3

"Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of the common good."

"Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of the common good."

Tom G. Palmer, American Educator

Liberty, Reason, World

3

"This call for a new culture is not a new idea."

"This call for a new culture is not a new idea."

John Hutton, English Educator

Creativity, Idea, Culture

3

"Before the monopoly should be permitted, there must be reason to believe it will do some good - for society, and not just for monopoly holders."

"Before the monopoly should be permitted, there must be reason to believe it will do some good - for society, and not just for monopoly holders."

Lawrence Lessig, American Educator

Society, Reason, Will

3

"From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment."

"From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment."

Ellsworth Huntington, American Educator

Civilization, America, Environment, First

3

"Probably people always feel that they are living in a time of transition, but we can hardly be mistaken perhaps in thinking that this is an era of particularly momentous change, rapid and proceeding at an ever quickening rate."

"Probably people always feel that they are living in a time of transition, but we can hardly be mistaken perhaps in thinking that this is an era of particularly momentous change, rapid and proceeding at an ever quickening rate."

Emily Greene Balch, American Educator

Time, Change, People, Living

3

"The government is best which makes itself unnecessary."

"The government is best which makes itself unnecessary."

Wilhelm von Humboldt, German Educator

3

"For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred."

"For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred."

John W. Gardner, American Educator

Talent, Poverty

3

"Rather than have it the principal thing in my son's mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament."

"Rather than have it the principal thing in my son's mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament."

Thomas Arnold, English Educator

Family, Son, Earth, Mind, Stars

3

"Life is the art of drawing without an eraser."

"Life is the art of drawing without an eraser."

John W. Gardner, American Educator

3

"Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care."

"Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care."

Paul Farmer, American Educator

Health, Care, Extreme, Limitations

3

"The foundation for film acting is stage acting."

"The foundation for film acting is stage acting."

James Lipton, American Educator

3

"Whoever knows it also knows that in love there is no More and no Less; but that he who loves can only love with the whole heart, and with the whole soul; with all his strength and with all his will."

"Whoever knows it also knows that in love there is no More and no Less; but that he who loves can only love with the whole heart, and with the whole soul; with all his strength and with all his will."

Max Muller, German Educator

Love, Heart, Soul, Strength

3

"I called their attention also to the absence of all means of ventilating the hall, remarking that, as we had already breathed the air which it contained for a full hour, it must have lost much of its vital properties and needed to be renewed."

"I called their attention also to the absence of all means of ventilating the hall, remarking that, as we had already breathed the air which it contained for a full hour, it must have lost much of its vital properties and needed to be renewed."

George Combe, American Educator

Absence, Attention

3

"Surprising as it may seem, this study indicates that similar conditions are best for all sorts of races."

"Surprising as it may seem, this study indicates that similar conditions are best for all sorts of races."

Ellsworth Huntington, American Educator

Diversity, May, Study

3

"Resistance is thought transformed into feeling. Change the thought that creates the resistance, and there is no more resistance."

"Resistance is thought transformed into feeling. Change the thought that creates the resistance, and there is no more resistance."

Robert Conklin, American Educator

Change, Thought, Feeling

3

"If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious."

"If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious."

Kingman Brewster, Jr., American Educator

Ambiguity, Kingman Brewster

3

"The studio is meant to be always a place where, first of all, they can be out of spotlight, and second, where they could work with a peer group on parts that they might not have played otherwise."

"The studio is meant to be always a place where, first of all, they can be out of spotlight, and second, where they could work with a peer group on parts that they might not have played otherwise."

James Lipton, American Educator

3

"But we can turn challenges into opportunities if we look outwards to the realities of the global economy and modernise our internal institutions in ways that will equip Europe to meet that challenge and create confidence amongst the public."

"But we can turn challenges into opportunities if we look outwards to the realities of the global economy and modernise our internal institutions in ways that will equip Europe to meet that challenge and create confidence amongst the public."

John Hutton, English Educator

Challenge, Confidence, Economy, Europe

3

"Today, no less than in the past, the tetrahedral form of the earth and the relation of the tetrahedron to the poles and to the equator preserve the conditions that favor rapid evolution."

"Today, no less than in the past, the tetrahedral form of the earth and the relation of the tetrahedron to the poles and to the equator preserve the conditions that favor rapid evolution."

Ellsworth Huntington, American Educator

Earth, Evolution, Past, Today

3

"I think we can work through a lot of these issues."

"I think we can work through a lot of these issues."

William P. Leahy, American Educator

3

"Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world."

"Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world."

William Lyon Phelps, American Educator

Love, Music, People, Development

3

"People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet."

"People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet."

Temple Grandin, American Educator

Change, People, Magic, Will

3

"The term 'cost shifting,' as I use it, refers to those items in a university's budget that used to be reimbursed by the federal government but are no longer paid for by them."

"The term 'cost shifting,' as I use it, refers to those items in a university's budget that used to be reimbursed by the federal government but are no longer paid for by them."

Charles Vest, American Educator

Government, University

3

"The spring of love becomes hidden and soon filled up."

"The spring of love becomes hidden and soon filled up."

Max Muller, German Educator

3

"The problem is that there are very few technologies that essentially haven't changed for 60, 70 years."

"The problem is that there are very few technologies that essentially haven't changed for 60, 70 years."

Robert Sternberg, American Educator

Technology, Years

3

"The danger in media concentration comes not from the concentration, but instead from the feudalism that this concentration, tied to the change in copyright, produces."

"The danger in media concentration comes not from the concentration, but instead from the feudalism that this concentration, tied to the change in copyright, produces."

Lawrence Lessig, American Educator

Change, Danger, Media

3

"These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out."

"These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out."

Emily Greene Balch, American Educator

Death, Hope, Possessions

3

"We're living under the illusion that we have the power to determine what to do with it."

"We're living under the illusion that we have the power to determine what to do with it."

Mordecai Wyatt Johnson, American Educator

Power, Illusion, Living

3

"It was from an old friend who thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, 'Life and death issues don't come along that often, thank God, so don't treat everything like it's life or death. Go easier.'"

"It was from an old friend who thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, 'Life and death issues don't come along that often, thank God, so don't treat everything like it's life or death. Go easier.'"

Thomas Arnold, English Educator

Friendship, Death, Life, God, Thought

3

"What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it."

"What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it."

Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish Educator

Psychology, Motives

3

"Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and urges you to stand there too."

"Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and urges you to stand there too."

Anna Julia Cooper, American Educator

Nothing, Sermons

3

"I've been impressed, over the last 15 years, with how often the somewhat conspiratorial comments of Haitian villagers have been proven to be correct when the historical record is probed carefully."

"I've been impressed, over the last 15 years, with how often the somewhat conspiratorial comments of Haitian villagers have been proven to be correct when the historical record is probed carefully."

Paul Farmer, American Educator

Human Rights, Years

3

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