Quotes speak for themselves.

Here are a few of the best student quotes that have stuck with me over my four years as a special education teacher:

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"Will you tie my shoe up? It tied down."

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"I wish I had me a pet monkey. The big kind. I wish I had me a pet ... a pet bamboo."

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(Writing on the board) "I hate ... how do you spell Miss Dooley?"

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STUDENT: "I likes dogs. Dogs is good. I likes dogs."
ME: "I like dogs, too, but I like cats best."
STUDENT: (rolling eyes) "Okay, Miss Dooley. You likes cats. I likes dogs eating cats."

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(At the start of geography class) "Look, we can live without them maps, okay?"

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(Upon my return from bus driver training -- the WRITTEN course, not the driving course) "Oh, Miss Dooley! You're back!" (Hugs me) "I was SO worried about you! I did NOT think you were going to make it!"

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"Move moon that-way please!"

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(As I was eating a carrot) "Miss Dooley? Why does old people like carrots?"

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"My grandfather gots penguins on his pond. Or, not penguins. What are those white things?"

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"I saw them squans on my grandfather's pond!"

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ME: (pointing to a picture of a dog in a magazine) "Is that the kind of dog that bit you?"
STUDENT: (looking at me like I am very stupid) "Well, now, he was a hair bigger."

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And, possibly my favorite kid quote ever:

STUDENT: "Is 'dang' a school word?"
ME: "No, honey, we should probably avoid using that word here."
STUDENT: (long, tired sigh) "I wish this was a school where we could say 'dang'!"