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.
You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analagous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination. Hold the philosophy, hold the adjectives, just give us a plain subject and verb and perhaps a wholesome, nonfattening adverb or two.
Virtually the only subject in which one could ever get a scholarship to Oxford or Cambridge was classics. So I went to Oxford to study classics and, unlike Cambridge, it had a philosophy component, and I became completely transported by it.
We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.
Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.
I feel like I am walking in some amazing footsteps of writers who have come before me, like S.E. Hinton, Walter Dean Myers, Christopher Paul Curtis, Richard Peck and Kate DiCamillo, who I love.
Research shows us that children who are read to from a very early age are more likely to begin reading themselves at an early age. They're more likely to excell in school. They're more likely to graduate secondary school and go to college.
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