Geoffrey Canada Quotes

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• When the safety of America is threatened, we will spend any amount of money. The real safety of our nation is preparing this next generation…
• Why is it that when we had rotary phones, when we were having folks being crippled by polio, that we were teaching the same way…
• Let's stop teaching to the middle and start teaching to the student.
• Over the past five years, I've met several presidents, several secretaries of education ... and there is no plan. If you want to save your…
• I want to be a children’s hero… Children need heroes because heroes give hope; without hope they have no future.
• One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist. I was a comic book reader. I…
• Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure.
• Osama Bin Laden is not going to come here and destroy America. Our education system is doing that just fine.
• When I was growing up, kids used to talk about snitching. It never extended as a cultural norm outside of the gangsters,
• One of the things that sells music is when the artist is looked at as someone who's come up from the streets. Not just any…
• 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]…
• There is an educational cliff we are walking over right this very second.
• When you see a great teacher, you are seeing a work of art,
• Middle-class families know education begins at birth.
• I graduated from Bowdoin College and went to the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Then I left and took a job teaching really poor inner-city…
• Kids who are poor often have families that have not really been kept informed about... how important it is to read to your child, to…
• My own faith was nurtured by my grandmother and her clinging deeply to her faith when she was dying a painful and slow death from…
• I believe that for lots of churches and religious institutions, their main focus on the development of faith among parishioners needs to spread to the…
• At a school in Massachusetts where I once worked, we managed early on through consensus. Which sounds wonderful, but it was just a very, very…
• The tendency in lots of large organizations is to try and find a comfortable place where you think you can get measured rewards for measured…

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