Geoffrey Canada Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“When I was growing up, kids used to talk about snitching... It never extended as a cultural norm outside of the gangsters.”

“The system decides you can't run schools in the summer.”

“Video games offer violent messages, and even the sports video games include taunting and teasing.”

“People talk about Wall Street greed, but one of the things many people don't understand is that there are a lot of organizations that have been the recipient of largess from the same Wall Street.”

“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.”

“If you are a lousy teacher, you should be fired.”

“When I began working in not-for-profits, it was taking a vow of poverty, which eliminated huge numbers of folks.”

“Middle-class families know education begins at birth.”

“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.”

“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.”