Education Quotes on Teaching
- “Children with special needs are unique individuals.” – Neena Dash
2. “Special Education is a service, not a place!” – Anonymous
3. “I did get a degree in special education.” – Clay Aiken
4. “What most people don’t know is that most Special Education teachers are really angels disguised as extraordinary humans.” – Joe Martin
5. “A good special education teacher is hard to find and even harder to hang on to.” – Lourdes Garcia-Navarro
6. “Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or in the same way.” – John Evans
7. “I’d like to work with kids in special education – younger kids.” – John Madden
8. “Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms.” – Dianne Feinstein
9. “If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.” – Ignacio Estrada
10. “All children with special needs have a right to be part of a family, a community, and society.” – Angela Dare
The Importance of Special Education Quotes
11. “A poor child who receives high-quality early childhood development is 40 percent less likely to need special education, twice as likely to attend college, and dramatically more likely to survive childhood.” – Shakira
12. “I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.” – Al Gore
13. “The past haunts and the future taunts. This is particularly true if you love a child with special needs.” – Lisa Thornbury
14. “But, even here, you have to consider the fact that I’ve had a very special education, that I’m the daughter of a man like my father and a woman like my mother.” – Indira Gandhi
15. “My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they’ve been more pioneers on the special education side.” – Margaret Spellings
16. “Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.” – Joe Baca
17. “Special needs children deviate from the normal children either in the positive direction or in the negative direction.” – Neena Dash
18. “When you have a child who has special needs, you really start thinking about children across the board with special needs.” – Soledad O’Brien
19. “The earlier a child’s special need is recognized and assessed, the sooner effective and ongoing help and family-centered support can be provided.” – Angela Dare
20. “Sometimes even the greatest joys bring challenge, and children with special needs inspire a very, very special love.” – Sarah Palin
Education Quotes That Mean Something
21. “In special education, there’s too much emphasis placed on the deficit and not enough on the strength.” – Temple Grandin
22. “I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to try and help kids with disabilities.” – Clay Aiken
23. “Without question, a diagnosis of an attention deficit disorder does not necessarily equate to a need for special education.” – James Whittemore
24. “The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.” – Robert M Hutchins
25. “A lot of the schools’ special education programs end when the kids are 21, like my brother’s school. What is next for these kids?” – Jacquelyn Jablonski
26. “If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others.” – Clay Aiken
27. “I have a child with special needs. I didn’t know if I would be strong enough. Turns out I am. And so are you.” – Lisa Thornbury
28. “A man becomes an entrepreneur by seizing an opportunity and filling the gap. No special education is required for such a display of keen judgment, foresight, and energy.” – Ludwig von Mises
29. “But a lot of kids shunted into special education classes are deficient only in a willingness to conform to the school pattern.” – Seymour Papert
30. “I decided to study special education and fell in love with working with individuals with autism. That’s what I planned to do with my life.” – Clay Aiken
Education Quotes for the World
31. “A kid shouldn’t need a diagnosis to access help.” – Ross W. Greene, Lost at School
32. “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” – Albert Einstein
33. “It is different than in special education where you have no alternative. For the gifted, it is an issue that is not absolutely required.” – Arthur Allen
34. “I’ll say this: It takes a special person to see the special needs of a complicated kid.” – James Duff
35. “If you look at the movement to reform the special education movement, it was driven by parents who were fierce advocates for their children.” – Davis Guggenheim
36. “Great education is a combination of a supporting environment, dedicated teachers, and students who take joy in learning.” – Hermann J Steinherr
37. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the one who’ll decide where to go.” – Dr. Seuss
38. “Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students, and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.” – Bob Beauprez
39. “I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the youngest of four girls, including my oldest sister, Lisa, who has special needs. My mom was a special education teacher, and my dad worked on the Army base. We weren’t wealthy, but we were determined to succeed.” – Eva Longoria
40. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela
41. “With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can’t always hear a parent when he says: ‘I want my child to be able to write contracts in Spanish,’ or, ‘I want my child to shake hands firmly,’ or, ‘I want my child to study statistics and accounting, not calculus.” – Amity Shlaes
42. “I had a lot of trouble in school to begin with. I got left back in kindergarten, and I was in special education. My teachers didn’t have very much faith in me.” – Jesse Ball
43. “Parenting a child with special needs will be the greatest challenge of your life, and if you make good choices, it may also prove one of the most rewarding.” – Judy Winter
44. “The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” – Sidney Harris
Education Quotes About Responsibility
45. “I was initially put in special education because I couldn’t quite wrap my mind around the English language because I was listening to Hungarian and Albanian and German.” – Masiela Lusha
46. “If every child matters, every child has the right to a good start in life. If every child matters, every child has the right to be included. And that is so important for children with special needs.” – Cherie Blair
47. “I left school with basically nothing, I was a special needs kid. I did feel as though my school had let me down.” – Jamie Oliver
48. “My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist, and my father an advertising executive. They are about as wacky as you can get without being alcoholics.” – Sloane Crosley
49. “We have a responsibility to ensure that every individual has the opportunity to receive a high-quality education, from prekindergarten to elementary and secondary, to special education, to technical and higher education, and beyond.” – Jim Jeffords
50. “What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind, and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge.” – Wendell Phillips
