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.
Unfortunately, as a society, we do not teach our children that they need to tend carefully the garden of their minds. Without structure, censorship, or discipline, our thoughts run rampant on automatic. Because we have not learned how to more carefully manage what goes on inside our brains, we remain vulnerable to not only what other people think about us, but also to advertising and/or political manipulation.
I preferred the simplest vocabulary.
All too rarely do I hear people asking just what it is that we've done to make so many children's hearts so hard, or what collectively we might do to right their moral compass - what values we must live by.
I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.
Your ancestors fought for you to have a share in that institution over there. It's yours. See the school board, and every Friday night hold your meetings there. Have your wives clean it up Saturday morning for the children to enter Monday. Your organization is not a praying institution. It's a fighting institution. It's an educational institution along industrial lines. Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living!
Our school systems have to realize that everybody doesn't learn the same way, and no one learns without some emotional support.
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