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Quotes by Educator


"If you start using a medication in a person with autism, you should see an obvious improvement in behavior in a short period of time. If you do not see an obvious improvement, they probably should not be taking the stuff. It is that simple."


"The three parts of the theory are analytical ability, the ability to analyze things to judge, to criticize. Creative, the ability to create, to invent and discover and practical, the ability to apply and use what you know."

"It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that it is evident that this science can make a contribution to a range of studies that will be of interest to almost anyone."

"The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education."

"Every thoughtful and kind-hearted person must regard with interest any device or plan which promises to enable at least the more intelligent, enterprising, and determined part of those who are not capitalists to cease to labor for hire."

"In traditional schools, you're penalized for making a mistake. But that won't work in the new information culture, in the digital world we live in today."

"The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change."

"I recommend the same therapies for all humans with HIV. There is no reason to believe that physiologic responses to therapy will vary across lines of class, culture, race or nationality."


"The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent."

"All legislative experiments in the way of making forcible distribution of the wealth produced in any country have failed."

"I consider myself a lesbian, but I'm a bisexual lesbian."

"In working with UNICEF our corporate partners have demonstrated time and again that their financial resources, leadership and expertise can bring about real and lasting benefits for the world's children."

"For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the human race."


"A treatment method or an educational method that will work for one child may not work for another child. The one common denominator for all of the young children is that early intervention does work, and it seems to improve the prognosis."

"Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former."

"Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them."


"The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense of the largeness of human brotherhood, a vivid sense of man's increasing obligation to man; a vivid sense of our absolute dependence on one another."

"But we need to show that the EU can modernise itself, can adapt to the needs of its citizens, can take their views into account. That will be our ambition for the UK Presidency."

"Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations."


"If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are."

"My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me."


"I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful."

"Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information."

"Each individual member of a co-operative society works with that interest which is inseparable from the new position he enjoys. Each has an interest in the other."


"One of the biggest issues that we face is that we have people who have their own particular concerns, whether it's on abortion, birth control, divorce and remarriage, civil rights or social justice."

"As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so quickly."


"Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway."

"Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory."

"Instant telecommunication allows better and updated information, lessons learnt and problems encountered to be exchanged and debated, it alerts us more quickly to problems and brings to many households around the world visions and information which hopefully spur us to action."

"I wanted when we began this to have a conversation, the kind that you're able to have, and the only way I knew how to do it was not to have a pre-interview."
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