Lisa Delpit quotes
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“Those with power are frequently least aware of -- or least willing to acknowledge -- its existence [and] those with less power are often most aware of its existence.”
-- Lisa DelpitSource : Lisa Delpit (2013). “Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom”, p.37, The New Press
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“Progressive white teachers seem to say to their black students 'Let me help you find your voice. I promise not to criticize one note as you search for your song'. But the black teachers say 'I've heard your song loud and clear. Now I want to teach you to harmonize with the rest of the world.”
-- Lisa DelpitSource : Lisa Delpit (2006). “Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom”, p.18, The New Press
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“We do not really see through our eyes or hear through our ears, but through our beliefs.”
-- Lisa DelpitSource : Lisa Delpit (2013). “Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom”, p.55, The New Press
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“When one 'we' gets to determine standards for all 'we's' then some 'we's' are in trouble.”
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“If the curriculum we use to teach our children does not connect in positive ways to the culture young people bring to school, it is doomed to failure.”
-- Lisa DelpitSource : Lisa Delpit (2012). “"Multiplication Is for White People": Raising Expectations for Other People's Children”, p.23, New Press, The
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“In order to teach you, I must know you.”
-- Lisa DelpitSource : Lisa Delpit (2013). “Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom”, p.162, The New Press
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“We do not really see through our eyes or hear through our ears, but through our beliefs. To put our beliefs on hold is to cease to exist as ourselves for a moment -- and that is not easy ... but it is the only way to learn what it might feel like to be someone else and the only way to start the dialogue.”
-- Lisa Delpit
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Source : "Satires". Book by Juvenal, edited by A. E. Housman, p. XI, 1931.
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“Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.”
Source : Table-Talk "Law" (1689) See Proverbs 153
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Source : "Lightning Fast Enlightenment: A Journey to the Secrets of Happiness". Book by Jordan S. Metzger, p. 9, 2000.
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Source : Alfred Russel Wallace (1875). “Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection: A Series of Essays”, p.5
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