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Geoffrey Canada Quotes

If you raise a child, there’s no time, you can’t be a great parent Picture Quote #1
It is important to have permanent safe spaces in Harlem Picture Quote #1
The system decides you can’t run schools in the summer Picture Quote #1
When you see a great teacher, you are seeing a work of art, Picture Quote #1
It’s easy to have faith when everything is going great. The real test of faith is when you’re facing something that only your faith in God will get you through Picture Quote #1
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 reduce stresses in their life, to use positive incentives and words Picture Quote #1
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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 children, you’re going to have to do it yourself. It’s just us Picture Quote #1
Good dental care doesn’t make you a good student, but if your tooth hurts, it’s hard to be a good student Picture Quote #1
You grow up in America and you’re told from day one, ‘This is the land of opportunity.’ That everybody has an equal chance to make it in this country. And then you look at places like Harlem, and you say, ‘That is absolutely a lie.’ Picture Quote #1
In two-parent households, women have increasingly entered the workplace, and in single-parent households, there is even more of a need for the adults to work. That means parents do not fully control their own schedule and have to scramble to find high-quality after-school options Picture Quote #1
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 work Picture Quote #1
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 community Picture Quote #1
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Poverty places not just one or two obstacles but multiple obstacles in a child’s pathway to what we would consider to be regular development - cognitively, intellectually and emotionally Picture Quote #1
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 cancer Picture Quote #1
People don’t believe or understand that a community can lose hope. You can have a whole community where hopelessness is the norm, where folks don’t have faith that things will get better because history and circumstances have proven over 30, 40, or 50 years that things don’t get better Picture Quote #1
My contract with my teachers is fair, and is two pages. The union contract is 200 pages. You cannot manage your business when you cannot make any decision without going back to 200 pages worth of stuff Picture Quote #1
Osama Bin Laden is not going to come here and destroy America. Our education system is doing that just fine Picture Quote #1
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 white kids in Boston. It was interesting to me because I’d never been around poor whites before Picture Quote #1
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Good dental care doesn’t make you a good student, but if your tooth hurts, it’s hard to be a good student Picture Quote #1
When I began working in not-for-profits, it was taking a vow of poverty, which eliminated huge numbers of folks Picture Quote #1
Movies portray men as tough guys Picture Quote #1
Monsters work seven days a week and don’t take vacations Picture Quote #1
When you see a great teacher, you are seeing a work of art Picture Quote #1
There is an educational cliff we are walking over right this very second Picture Quote #1
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Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure Picture Quote #1
Let’s stop teaching to the middle and start teaching to the student Picture Quote #1
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 then that we’re doing right now? Picture Quote #1
Boys want to grow up to be like their male role models. And boys who grow up in homes with absent fathers search the hardest to figure out what it means to be male Picture Quote #1
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 children, you’re going to have to do it yourself. It’s just us Picture Quote #1
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If you raise a child, there’s no time, you can’t be a great parent  (Geoffrey Canada Quotes) It is important to have permanent safe spaces in Harlem  (Geoffrey Canada Quotes) The system decides you can’t run schools in the summer  (Geoffrey Canada Quotes) When you see a great teacher, you are seeing a work of art,  (Geoffrey Canada Quotes) It’s easy to have faith when everything is going great. The real test of faith is when you’re facing something that only your faith in God will get you through  (Geoffrey Canada Quotes) 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 reduce stresses in their life, to use positive incentives and words.  (Geoffrey Canada Quotes) 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 children, you’re going to have to do it yourself. It’s just us.  (Geoffrey Canada Quotes) 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 Quotes) You grow up in America and you’re told from day one, ‘This is the land of opportunity.’ That everybody has an equal chance to make it in this country. And then you look at places like Harlem, and you say, ‘That is absolutely a lie.’  (Geoffrey Canada Quotes) In two-parent households, women have increasingly entered the workplace, and in single-parent households, there is even more of a need for the adults to work. That means parents do not fully control their own schedule and have to scramble to find high-quality after-school options.  (Geoffrey Canada Quotes) 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 work.  (Geoffrey Canada Quotes) 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 community.  (Geoffrey Canada Quotes) Poverty places not just one or two obstacles but multiple obstacles in a child’s pathway to what we would consider to be regular development - cognitively, intellectually and emotionally.  (Geoffrey Canada Quotes) 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 cancer.  (Geoffrey Canada Quotes) People don’t believe or understand that a community can lose hope. You can have a whole community where hopelessness is the norm, where folks don’t have faith that things will get better because history and circumstances have proven over 30, 40, or 50 years that things don’t get better.  (Geoffrey Canada Quotes) My contract with my teachers is fair, and is two pages. The union contract is 200 pages. You cannot manage your business when you cannot make any decision without going back to 200 pages worth of stuff.  (Geoffrey Canada Quotes) Osama Bin Laden is not going to come here and destroy America. Our education system is doing that just fine  (Geoffrey Canada Quotes) 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 white kids in Boston. It was interesting to me because I’d never been around poor whites before  (Geoffrey Canada Quotes) 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 Quotes) When I began working in not-for-profits, it was taking a vow of poverty, which eliminated huge numbers of folks  (Geoffrey Canada Quotes) Movies portray men as tough guys  (Geoffrey Canada Quotes) Monsters work seven days a week and don’t take vacations  (Geoffrey Canada Quotes) When you see a great teacher, you are seeing a work of art  (Geoffrey Canada Quotes) There is an educational cliff we are walking over right this very second  (Geoffrey Canada Quotes) Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure  (Geoffrey Canada Quotes) Let’s stop teaching to the middle and start teaching to the student  (Geoffrey Canada Quotes) 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 then that we’re doing right now?  (Geoffrey Canada Quotes) Boys want to grow up to be like their male role models. And boys who grow up in homes with absent fathers search the hardest to figure out what it means to be male  (Geoffrey Canada Quotes) 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 children, you’re going to have to do it yourself. It’s just us  (Geoffrey Canada Quotes)