“Be kind to those who feel different and afraid.”
Mary Pope Osborne’s words to live by. This should be all of our mantras, since we have all felt different and afraid at one time or another.
Tag: quotes
Thinking as a skill
“Because learning is hard, it [dyslexia] forces you to rely more on thinking. As you get out into the world, it’s thinking that is a lot more prized than learning.”
~David Boies, Lawyer/Dyslexic
Order of Presentation Mantra
“I will not place before my students any task for which they are not prepared by prior mastery.”
~Dorothy Blosser Whitehead
“If a technique is good enough to use
remedially,
it is good enough to begin with.”
| ~Sylvia Richardson, M.D.,
Past President, Orton Dyslexia Society. |
Priorities
“The reason most major goals are not accomplished is that we spend our time doing second things first.”
| This quote sits in a frame on my desk at school. I try to look at it before I am pulled off on rabbit trails. I owe my students the best planning, the best lessons, the best visuals I can give them. That won’t happen if I give in and allow myself to while away my time on interesting but less important tasks. But why do second most important things seem more appealing than most important? |
Tales from the Dyslexia Center 