Young people will tell you, if you're not prepared to write the most violent, the most misogynistic, the most horrible kinds of… — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
Good dental care doesn't make you a good student, but if your tooth hurts, it's hard to be a good student. — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
You don't need someone destroying you when your own people are the worst messengers possible. And this is what black people in… — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
The tendency in lots of large organizations is to try and find a comfortable place where you think you can get measured… — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
I want my kids to graduate from high school. But that's not enough. I also want them to go to college. Why?… — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
How is it we could have a system where schools could remain lousy for 50 years and yet you do exactly the… — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
You go through the Civil Rights struggle, everybody knew the songs - 'We shall overcome.' Everybody would sing it. Music helped us.… — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
You grow up in America and you're told from day one, 'This is the land of opportunity.' That everybody has an equal… — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
Convincing people to give your way a try will work if you neutralize - and sometimes you have to cauterize - the… — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
People don't believe or understand that a community can lose hope. You can have a whole community where hopelessness is the norm,… — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
My contract with my teachers is fair, and is two pages. The union contract is 200 pages. You cannot manage your business… — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
I want my kids to graduate from high school. But that's not enough. I also want them to go to college. Why? Because rich… — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
Many schools today are sacrificing social studies, the arts and physical education so children can cover basic subjects like math, English and science. — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
If you raise a child, there's no time, you can't be a great parent. — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
Let's stop teaching to the middle and start teaching to the student. — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
Video games offer violent messages, and even the sports video games include taunting and teasing. — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
There's not a day that goes by that I don't draw on my undergraduate background in psychology. — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
Convincing people to give your way a try will work if you neutralize - and sometimes you have to cauterize - the ones who… — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
When kids know that you refuse to let them fail ... they don't give up as easy. So sometimes they don't have it inside,… — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
Kids who are poor often have families that have not really been kept informed about... how important it is to read to your child,… — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
I believe that for lots of churches and religious institutions, their main focus on the development of faith among parishioners needs to spread to… — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
![“When kids know that you refuse to let them fail ... they don't give up as easy. So sometimes they don't have it inside, [but] they're like,'You know, I don't want to do this, but I know my mother's going to be mad.'That matters to kids, and it helps get them through.” quote by Geoffrey Canada](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8f7/geoffrey-canada-11965_children_when-kids-know-that-you-refuse-to-let-th_627702.jpg)
