A Mind at a Time Quotes

“إننا جميعاً نعيش بعقول صُممت لأن تنشط في مجال و تتعثر في آخر …

دكتور مِل لفين”
― Melvin D. Levine, A Mind at a Time: America's Top Learning Expert Shows How Every Child Can Succeed

“If we went out on the street dressed the way we talk, we should be arrested for indecentexposure. JAMES THURBER”
― Mel Levine, A Mind at a Time

“الوقت هو ما يوجد ضمنه فرصة ...
و الفرصة هى ما لا يوجد فيها وقت كثير ...
الشفاء أمر عائد إلى الزمن، لكنه أيضاً عائد إلى الفرصة ...

هيبوقراط، الأوبئة”
― Melvin D. Levine, A Mind at a Time: America's Top Learning Expert Shows How Every Child Can Succeed

“third grade could evolve into his prize assets during adulthood. Distractibility and daydreaming during reading class may be an attention deficit yet may also be early indicators of creativity and innovative thinking, “symptoms” that will bolster her career as a scriptwriter or music video producer”
― Mel Levine, A Mind at a Time

“think schools should assume responsibility for teaching kids how to learn, and parents need to have the assignment of teaching kids how to work!”
― Mel Levine, A Mind at a Time

“Honey, you are wrong, just plain wrong. Let me tell you what I do. Each year during the first week of school I tell all the kids in my science classes, ‘I’m not going to treat any two of you the same way. And I don’t want to hear anything about it. Some of you might have to write long reports and some of you are allowed to do shorter ones. Some of you may have to read long articles and some of you shorter ones. And that’s just the way it is. Everyone learns different. If there’s ever any special thing any of you need you can let me know, and I’ll think about doing it for you. But I don’t want to catch you complaining about what I’m doing for anyone else.’ ” I wholeheartedly agree with that teacher’s policy and philosophy and with the need to declare it openly to the students.”
― Mel Levine, A Mind at a Time

“It is vitally important that teachers and parents identify students who are slow processors and not consider them abnormal or deviant persons.”
― Mel Levine, A Mind at a Time

“I worry when we try to make every little cluster of traits into a syndrome, ignoring the toxic stigmatizing effects of being so designated, which can last a lifetime. We could help Doug without forcing him to become a pathological specimen!”
― Mel Levine, A Mind at a Time

“The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men arecreated different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy inseeking to become like each other. DAVID RIESMAN, The Lonely Crowd”
― Mel Levine, A Mind at a Time

“Reading problems may stem from dysfunctions of phonologic or phonemic awareness, deficient analysis or recognition of visual patterns, active working memory limitations, and/or reduced lexical access. The latter might be part of a much broader memory retrieval or language dysfunction.”
― Mel Levine, A Mind at a Time

“When a child can’t seem to control his behavior, there is a very real possibility that some of his attention controls may not be functioning as they should. That is to say, he is not evil, not a bad boy; he just needs to gain control. If you call someone bad long enough, he is apt to turn bad. Accounting for the behavior as a control issue and pinpointing the control(s) in need of repair can enable a child to determine what he has to do to stay out of trouble. I have seen children’s behavior improve markedly when the adult world has stopped making their actions seem criminal.”
― Mel Levine, A Mind at a Time

“Many children who are thought to be lazy are experiencing trouble generating and sustaining their mental effort”
― Mel Levine, A Mind at a Time

“It’s never too late to understand and strengthen a mind.”
― Mel Levine, A Mind at a Time

“neurodevelopmental dysfunction is misread as a behavior problem”
― Mel Levine, A Mind at a Time