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> [It was much later that I realized Dad's secret. He gained respect by giving it. He talked and listened to the fourth-grade kids in Spring Valley who shined shoes the same way he talked and listened to a bishop or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-lawrence-lightfoot/it-was-much-later-that-i-realized-dad-s-secret-he-gained-respect-by/)

[Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-lawrence-lightfoot/)

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## More by Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

> [Productive collaborations between family and school, therefore, will demand that parents and teachers recognize the critical importance of each other's participation in the life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-lawrence-lightfoot/productive-collaborations-between-family-and-school-therefore-will/)

[Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-lawrence-lightfoot/)

> [Even though fathers, grandparents, siblings, memories of ancestors are important agents of socialization, our society focuses on the attributes and characteristics of mothers and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-lawrence-lightfoot/even-though-fathers-grandparents-siblings-memories-of-ancestors-are/)

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> [Schooling is what happens inside the wall of the school, some of which is educational. Education happens everywhere, and it happens from the moment…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-lawrence-lightfoot/schooling-is-what-happens-inside-the-wall-of-the-school-some-of-which/)

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> [Dissonance between family and school, therefore, is not only inevitable in a changing society; it also helps to make children moremalleable and responsive to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-lawrence-lightfoot/dissonance-between-family-and-school-therefore-is-not-only-inevitable/)

[Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-lawrence-lightfoot/)

> [“I also believe that the boundaries of school need to be made more porous and permeable, that we need to reduce the generational segregation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-lawrence-lightfoot/i-also-believe-that-the-boundaries-of-school-need-to-be-made-more/)

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> [We must develop a compelling vision of later life: one that does not assume a trajectory of decline after fifty, but one that recognizes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-lawrence-lightfoot/we-must-develop-a-compelling-vision-of-later-life-one-that-does-not/)

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> [There must be a profound recognition that parents are the first teachers and that education begins before formal schooling and is deeply rooted in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-lawrence-lightfoot/there-must-be-a-profound-recognition-that-parents-are-the-first/)

[Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-lawrence-lightfoot/)

> [Part of teaching is helping students learn how to tolerate ambiguity, consider possibilities, and ask questions that are unanswerable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-lawrence-lightfoot/part-of-teaching-is-helping-students-learn-how-to-tolerate-ambiguity/)

[Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-lawrence-lightfoot/)

> [ For those parents from lower-class and minority communities\[who\] have had minimal experience in negotiating dominant, external institutions or have had negative and hostile contact… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-lawrence-lightfoot/for-those-parents-from-lower-class-and-minority-communities-who-have/)

[Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-lawrence-lightfoot/)

> [The ambiguous, gray areas of authority and responsibility between parents and teachers exacerbate the distrust between them. The distrust is further complicated by the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-lawrence-lightfoot/the-ambiguous-gray-areas-of-authority-and-responsibility-between/)

[Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-lawrence-lightfoot/)

> [It is rare, I think, for parents to let their children -- of any age -- grow up and become peers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-lawrence-lightfoot/it-is-rare-i-think-for-parents-to-let-their-children-of-any-age-grow/)

[Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-lawrence-lightfoot/)

> [Whether outside work is done by choice or not, whether women seek their identity through work, whether women are searching for pleasure or survival…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-lawrence-lightfoot/whether-outside-work-is-done-by-choice-or-not-whether-women-seek/)

[Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-lawrence-lightfoot/)

> [It was much later that I realized Dad's secret. He gained respect by giving it. He talked and listened to the fourth-grade kids in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-lawrence-lightfoot/it-was-much-later-that-i-realized-dad-s-secret-he-gained-respect-by/)

[Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-lawrence-lightfoot/)

> [Mothers seem to be in subtle competition with teachers. There is always an underlying fear that teachers will do a better job thanthey have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-lawrence-lightfoot/mothers-seem-to-be-in-subtle-competition-with-teachers-there-is/)

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> [Views of women, on one side, as inwardly directed toward home and family and notions of men, on the other, as outwardly striving toward…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-lawrence-lightfoot/views-of-women-on-one-side-as-inwardly-directed-toward-home-and/)

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