Movie: In front of the class (Front of the Class)
In addition to the value of reading and the value of math, it is important to teach them that it is good to be themselves. It's okay to go over the edges of the coloring if you like it.
Yes, you're right, you're crazy. You have a gift - to teach. And this is not in spite of the syndrome, but thanks to it.
I just want to be treated like everyone else.
You have a gift to teach. And it's not against the syndrome. And thanks to him.
- The sounds you just heard is Tourette's syndrome. I live with him since I was six. And here I stand now because the love and support of many people brought me here: my family, my school family, my students and friends - I owe this award to them. But I also have his most unbearable and the most faithful teacher I've ever had - my Constant Companion - my illness. Some of you may think that it's weird to thank your flaw and call him a great teacher. That's really unusual. But what really I could extract from their inferiority? Yes, Gailon?
- You learned not to give up.
- Eli?
- You learned not to let that stop you.
- Yes, Thomas?
- You learned not to let the disease win!
- Right. Struggle with the disease has taught me the most valuable lesson imaginable. Anything should not be allowed to stop you on the way to a dream: no work, neither in-game nor in love. So. Struggle with the disease has taught me the most valuable lesson...
- You learned not to give up.
- Eli?
- You learned not to let that stop you.
- Yes, Thomas?
- You learned not to let the disease win!
- Right. Struggle with the disease has taught me the most valuable lesson imaginable. Anything should not be allowed to stop you on the way to a dream: no work, neither in-game nor in love. So. Struggle with the disease has taught me the most valuable lesson...
