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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.

From Geoffrey Canada

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?

From Geoffrey Canada

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.

From Geoffrey Canada

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.

From Geoffrey Canada

At a school in Massachusetts where I once worked, we managed early on through consensus. Which sounds wonderful, but it was just a very, very difficult way to sort of manage anything, because convincing everybody to do one particular thing, especially if it was hard, was almost impossible.

From Geoffrey Canada

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.

From Geoffrey Canada

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.

From Geoffrey Canada

There's not a day that goes by that I don't draw on my undergraduate background in psychology.

From Geoffrey Canada

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

From Geoffrey Canada

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.'

From Geoffrey Canada

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