Temple Grandin Quotes About Today

Quotes about: Today

• All children in the '50s were taught manners, they were taught to say please and thank you, they were taught not to be rude. And I'm seeing some problems today where somebody's losing a job because they made fun of a fat lady that couldn't fit in the elevator. I mean that was the sort of thing that, when I was eight years old, my mother made it very clear to me that that was not okay to say that kind of stuff.

  Temple Grandin

  Mother, Jobs, Children

  "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 2006.

• People wouldn’t have become who we are today if we hadn’t coevolved with dogs.

  Temple Grandin

  Dog, People, Who We Are

  Temple Grandin, Catherine Johnson (2009). “Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior”, p.346, Simon and Schuster

• I'm a child of the 50s. I was expected to have table manners. There needs to be some expectations for behavior. I'm seeing some children today, they don't push them enough.

  Temple Grandin

  Children, Expectations, Needs

  Source: www.kshb.com

• My mother was always expanding my art skills and getting me to paint different things. You always got to push some. And, I mean, I learned basic things like getting up on time, how to shop - you know, you don't touch things in a store you're not going to buy. These things were taught very young. I don't see today enough of this basic, you know, basic skill teaching.

  Temple Grandin

  Mother, Art, Teaching

  Source: www.kshb.com

• I think the mild Aspergers have always been there. You see, Asperger's diagnosis did not become common in the U.S. until the early '90s. And an Aspergers has more or less normal speech development and they've always been here, that hasn't changed. I can think back to when I was in high school, this is 40 years ago, I could name kids in my high school class and college class that, today, would be diagnosed as Aspergers.

  Temple Grandin

  School, Kids, College

  "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 2006.

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