Learn to listen with your fingers.
Interpretation
Understanding through alternative methods is crucial for effective communication.
This quote emphasizes the importance of adapting our communication and learning styles to different contexts, particularly in relation to those who may have disabilities. It highlights the necessity of listening and understanding in ways that go beyond conventional methods, encouraging empathy and innovative approaches in our interactions.
In practice
This quote can be used in a presentation about inclusive education practices.
It's the way I study - to understand something by trying to work it out or, in other words, to understand something by creating it. Not creating it one hundred percent, of course; but taking a hint as to which direction to go but not remembering the details. These you work out for yourself.
Let there be nothing harmonious about our children's playthings, lest they grow up expecting peace and order, and be eaten alive.
I am confident in saying that Oberlin did more for me than vice versa. I took a fantastic class in religion, which led me to archaeology, which got me to the Middle East, which led me to international relations, which launched me on my career.
Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.
If we can dispel the delusion that learning about computers should be an activity of fiddling with array indexes and worrying whether X is an integer or a real number, we can begin to focus on programming as a source of ideas.
Our aim is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch his imagination as to enthuse him to his innermost core.
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