Education Quotes by Richard Rodriguez

9 Education quotes by Richard Rodriguez

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Richard Rodriguez’s nine brief comments examine how education shapes identity and language, reflecting his literary background. His nuanced voice offers a layered look at learning’s personal impact.

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“The boy who first entered a classroom barely able to speak English, twenty years later concluded his studies in the stately quiet…

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I think what education gives you is a voice. It gives you a way of talking to a judge. When a policeman…

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“If, because of my schooling, I had grown culturally separated from my parents, my education finally had given me ways of speaking…

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Education is that human process of feeling your body mature, feeding your mind with ideas that it never had before, or information…

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I think the universities have co-opted the intellectual, by and large. But there is an emerging intellectual set coming out of Washington…

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It's no surprise that at the same time that American universities have engaged in a serious commitment to diversity, they have been…

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Bilingual-education advocates say it's important to teach a child in his or her family's language. I say you can't use family language…

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A primary reason for my success in the classroom was that I couldn't forget that schooling was changing me and separating me…

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The university has become so stultified since the sixties. There is so much you can't do at the university. You can't say…

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“Human unhappiness is evidence of our immortality.”

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In the Sacramento of the 1950s, it was as though White simply hadn't had time enough to figure Brown out. It was a busy…

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Books should confuse. Literature abhors the typical. Literature flows to the particular, the mundane, the greasiness of paper, the taste of warm beer, the…

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Mexico is sex and Canada is mind. There is much about Canada that I find admirable - the treatment of immigrants, for example, particularly…

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My decision was sparked by affirmative action. There was a point in my life when affirmative action would have meant something to me -…

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Who knows what Yale thought it was getting when it hired Richard Rodriguez? The people who offered me the job thought there was nothing…

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I have a good black friend who is a doctor, but he didn't become a doctor because he saw other black men who were…

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In some ways I consider myself more Chinese, because I live in San Francisco, which is becoming a predominantly Asian city. I avoid falling…

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I think the universities have co-opted the intellectual, by and large. But there is an emerging intellectual set coming out of Washington think tanks…

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You don't know Mexico, man. You have trivialized Mexico. You are a fool about Mexico if you think that Mexico is five blocks. That…

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After the second chapter of Days of Obligation, which is about the death of a friend of mine from AIDS, was published in Harper's,…

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What has happened in the last generation is that Tijuana has become a new Third World capital - much to the chagrin of Mexico…

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We're looking at complexity. We're looking at blond kids in Beverley Hills who can speak Spanish because they have been raised by Guatemalan nannies.…

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