Kliewer and Varenne & McDermott Quotes

1) "Democracy, in Dewey's perspective, "is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience."
- The Kliewer article goes on to say that in a true democracy everyone listens to and sees value in everyone else. Both of the articles talked about how people without disabilities tend to not even see people with disabilities as the people and peers that they are. We look down on them with pity and fail to see that we 100% can work with them or be friends with them and things like that. We create this divide between us and them as if they aren't capable of being apart of us and what we do. As long as we have this mindset we will not have a true democracy because we do not listen to those with disabilities, we silence and dismiss them due to our misunderstandings about what they are capable of.

2) "These students who exhibit the canonical mind are credited with understanding, even when real understanding is limited or absent; many people can pass the test but fail other, perhaps more appropriate or probing of understanding. Less happily many who are capable of exhibiting significant understanding appear deficient, simply because they cannot readily traffic in the commonly accepted coin of the educational realm."
- This quote is basically saying that our education system and the things or skills that we value in it are messed up. Doing well in school is not the same thing as being smart nor does it mean that you'll do better in life. Also we as a society value being able, which ties into the second article about the small town where there are a lot of deaf people and they all managed fine, everyone knew sign language and they had all these strengths but the people in the neighboring towns felt pity for the deaf people in the town.

3) "So I guess what I'm arguing is that if you did pick Lee out, you wouldn't be seeing Lee. It's not Lee you're picking out. It's your stereotype, your mindset."
- I picked this quote because I think that it is so true. We see a person and we make these judgments about who they are and what they're capable of and it's unfair.