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We need a pedagogy free from fear and focused on the magic of children's innate quest for information and understanding. Sugata Mitra

Fear Free Understanding Focused Magic Quest Children Information Innate Need

Education prepares to be one piece of a machine. Sugata Mitra

Education Machine Piece Prepares

In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test is coming up. Because measuring the results of rote learning is easy, rote prevails. What kids know is just not important in comparison with whether they can think. Sugata Mitra

Learning Important Whatever Think Kids Easy Memorize Prevails Results Know Most Schools Content Because Test Coming Up Just Children Whether Measure Measuring Large Rote Comparison

The truth is that I am enslaved... in one vast love affair with 70 children. Sylvia Ashton-Warner

Love Truth Truth Is Enslaved Vast Am Affair Love Affair Children

I am my own Universe, I my own Professor. Sylvia Ashton-Warner

Own Universe My Own Am Professor

I've got to relearn what I was supposed to have learned. Sylvia Ashton-Warner

Supposed Learned Got

Love has the quality of informing almost everything - even one's work. Sylvia Ashton-Warner

Work Love Quality Everything Almost Almost Everything Informing Even

I was so afraid to go out west to my aunt's ranch. But the only choice my mother gave me was to go for two weeks or all summer. I wound up staying all summer. And that's where I learned about cattle. I could relate to their behavior, their fears. Temple Grandin

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One big question that's come up is: Has autism increased on the mild side of things? I don't think so - they've always been here. Some of this is increased detection. Temple Grandin

Big Autism Think Increased Side Detection Some Come Always Been Question Up Big Question Mild Things Here

My life is basically my work. Temple Grandin

Life Work My Life Basically

I've always thought of myself as a cattle-handling specialist, a college professor first; autism is secondary. Temple Grandin

Myself Thought College First Autism Secondary College Professor Always Specialist Professor

It's very important for the parents of young autistic children to encourage them to talk, or for those that don't talk, to give them a way of communicating, like a picture board, where they can point to a glass of milk, or a jacket if they're cold, or the bathroom. If they want something, then they need to learn to request that thing. Temple Grandin

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I am much less autistic now, compared to when I was young. I remember some behaviors like picking carpet fuzz and watching spinning plates for hours. I didn't want to be touched. I couldn't shut out background noise. I didn't talk until I was about 4 years old. I screamed. I hummed. But as I grew up, I improved. Temple Grandin

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Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind. When I work on designing livestock equipment I can test run that equipment in my head like 3-D virtual reality. In fact, when I was in college I used to think that everybody was able to do that. Temple Grandin

I had problems getting my words out. If people spoke directly to me, I understood what they said. But when the grownups got to yakking really fast by themselves, it just sounded like 'oi oi.' I thought grownups had a separate language. I've now figured out I was not hearing the hard consonant sounds. Temple Grandin

Me People Words Problems Language Thought Out Directly Had Spoke Like Said Got Understood Sounds Hearing Getting Just Themselves Really Separate Hard Figured Now Fast Grownups

Costs for liability insurance are higher than costs for many procedures. There is a need to reform liability laws to stop out-of-control health care costs. Temple Grandin

Health Care Out-Of-Control Laws Costs Higher Health Care Health Care Costs Insurance Than Reform Stop Procedures Many Care Costs Need Liability

When you take a drug to treat high blood pressure or diabetes, you have an objective test to measure blood pressure and the amount of sugar in the blood. It is straight-forward. With autism, you are looking for changes in behavior. Temple Grandin

You Treat Diabetes Behavior Pressure Looking Autism Sugar Changes High High Blood Pressure Objective Take Test Blood Blood Pressure Measure Amount

I was fascinated with optical illusions. Temple Grandin

Optical Fascinated Illusions

I am also a believer in an integrated treatment approach to autism. Temple Grandin

Autism Approach Also Am Integrated Believer Treatment

One of my sensory problems was hearing sensitivity, where certain loud noises, such as a school bell, hurt my ears. It sounded like a dentist drill going through my ears. Temple Grandin

Hurt School Problems Ears Drill Through Like Noises Hearing Loud Dentist Going Where Sensitivity Sensory Certain Bell

There is a tremendous range of children with a PDD label. Temple Grandin

Tremendous Range Label Children

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. Temple Grandin

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