Culture Quote by Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

“There must be a profound recognition that parents are the first teachers and that education begins before formal schooling and is deeply rooted in the values, traditions, and norms of family and culture.”

Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

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Even though fathers, grandparents, siblings, memories of ancestors are important agents of socialization, our society focuses on the attributes and characteristics of mothers and…

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“I also believe that the boundaries of school need to be made more porous and permeable, that we need to reduce the generational segregation…

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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…

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Part of teaching is helping students learn how to tolerate ambiguity, consider possibilities, and ask questions that are unanswerable.

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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…

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The ambiguous, gray areas of authority and responsibility between parents and teachers exacerbate the distrust between them. The distrust is further complicated by the…

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It is rare, I think, for parents to let their children -- of any age -- grow up and become peers.

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