Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Temple Grandin

Quote by Temple Grandin

Work

Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals

This work examines the fundamental needs of animals and how human understanding and intervention can contribute to their optimal welfare. The book discusses the importance of recognizing animal instincts, emotions, and natural behaviors as essential components of their overall health. It addresses the responsibility that comes with human-animal relationships and offers insights into creating environments where animals can thrive physically and psychologically. The content likely covers topics such as proper care protocols, enrichment strategies, and the ethical considerations involved in animal husbandry across various contexts. more

Author

Temple Grandin
Temple Grandin

Temple Grandin is a professor of animal science and an autism advocate. Born on August 29, 1947, she has made significant contributions to the understanding of autism and animal welfare through her groundbreaking research. Grandin's innovative designs, such as the 'hug box,' have improved livestock handling practices. She is also an author and speaker, sharing her experiences and insights on autism and animal welfare with the world. more

You May Also Like

“Well into my teaching career, I learned that good and bad play are usually a matter of having a script that works or one that needs to be rewritten. Once you begin to depend on storytelling and story acting, you start looking at your classrooms as theater. The children are constantly imagining characters and plots and, when they have a chance, with each other, acting out little stories. You can look at the children and yourself as actors. "Well, this hasn't worked. We'd better think of a better way to pretend this story." What seems to be a chaotic scene, one we might call bad play, is simply a scene that lacks closure for one or more characters. The teacher's role is to help the children make up a new scene. The children become used to the teachers - or even other children - saying, "This isn't working. We need to tell the story of what were doing with each other. What characters are we playing? And what needs to be played in a different way so that the play does not have to stop?" (via a Meghan Dombrick-Green interview with Vivian Paley 2001)”

TeachingPedagogyPreschoolEarly EducationVivian Paley
Book:The High-Performing Preschool: Story Acting in Head Start Classrooms
Create image

“Yet GenX'er teens didn't slow down--they were just as likely to drive, drink alcohol, and date as their Boomer peers and more likely to have sex and get pregnant as teens. But then they waited longer to reach full adulthood with careers and children. So GenX'ers managed to lengthen adolescence beyond all previous limits: they started becoming adults earlier and finished becoming adults later.”

DrinkingPregnancyAdulthoodAdolescenceBoomersGenxers
Book:iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of Us
Create image

“To instill the values for the culture was and is the responsibility of the leadership, and staff alignment was critical to its success. It started with both board and staff. They realized that they needed to share the same value system that says, “I am the equipper, not the doer.” If not, there were going to be immense roadblocks to effectively mobilizing people for ministry.”

LeadershipChurchLeadersMinistryEquippingMobilizing
Book:The Equipping Church
Create image