Geoffrey Canada Quotes
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It is important to have permanent safe spaces in Harlem.
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Convincing people to give your way a try will work if you neutralize - and sometimes you have to cauterize - the ones who really are against change. They're the kind of person who, if you tell them it's raining outside, they'll fight you tooth and nail.
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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.
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Movies portray men as tough guys.
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How is it we could have a system where schools could remain lousy for 50 years and yet you do exactly the same thing this year that they did 50 years ago when it didn't work then, and no one feels any pressure to change?
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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.'
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There's not a day that goes by that I don't draw on my undergraduate background in psychology.
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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.
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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 people's kids go to college. And if that's good enough for them, it's good enough for my kids. Because you know what? College graduates don't tend to go to jail as frequently as nongraduates.
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Video games offer violent messages, and even the sports video games include taunting and teasing.
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Middle-class families know education begins at birth.
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An extended school day gives administrators the ability to ensure children get a well-rounded education.
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The rates of soda consumption in our poorest communities cannot be explained by individual consumer preferences alone, but rather are linked to broader issues of access and affordability of healthy foods in low-income neighborhoods, and to the marketing efforts of soda companies themselves.
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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.