Meg Cabot Quotes

You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read.

I always say deafness is a silent disability: you can't see, and it's not life-threatening, so it has to touch your life in some way in order for it to be on your radar.

Dad could speak with a strong voice. And luckily, he was very good at lip-reading, so he was able to disguise his deafness well. He tried various hearing aids but would find them fiddly and uncomfortable, and worse, they often made horrible high-pitched noises.

[On being deaf:] How much less pain there is in calmly estimating the enjoyments from which we must separate ourselves, of bravely saying, for once and for ever, 'Let them go,' than in feeling them waste and dwindle, till their very shadows escape from our grasp!

I am just as deaf as I am blind. The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important than those of blindness. Deafness is a much worse misfortune. For it means the loss of the most vital stimulus- the sound of the voice that brings language, sets thoughts astir, and keeps us in the intellectual company of man.

I have to constantly remind myself that I am communicating with a person with hearing loss.

We're far more defined by our mistakes than the things that we succeed at.

I became deaf when I was 18 months old. And I learned to sign when I was 5 years old.

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.

We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.

Besides the aesthetics, besides teaching an appreciation of T.S. Eliot, a basic need is fulfilled when you teach English at CUNY.

Where I Was Wrong

Dumbness comes from the fact that a child is born deaf and that it consequently never learns how to articulate, for it is by the medium of hearing that such instruction is acquired.

When somewhat at a distance, I cannot hear the high tones of instruments, voices. In speaking, it is not surprising that there are people who have never noticed it, for as a rule I am absent-minded, and they account for it in that way.

If you can't hear language, you won't be able to understand language and experience normal development. Every minute spent without hearing is a minute a child is not getting back.

Looking back at the 'Wonder Years,' I see things I did well, and I see things I did very, very badly.

The total loss of hearing was a process that lasted more than a decade, but it was sufficiently gradual for me to attend Sydney Boys' High School and to profit from the teaching there.

We should teach kids how to question. Now having said that, of course, to be a productive adult, there are certain skills that are required - reading, writing, and, in the old-fashioned days, we used to say arithmetic. Now we say mathematics.

I am a visual person, given that I am deaf.

I loved teaching English and giving my students confidence.

I was born deaf. Sound never existed in my life, and this is completely normal to me.

I've made mistakes, and I'm very aware of them, and I've tried to better myself from those mistakes.

When I lost my hearing, my mom got a deaf mentor to come into the home.