Geoffrey Canada famous quotes

03-22-2025

When you see a great teacher, you are seeing a work of art,
-- Geoffrey Canada

#Teacher #Art #Great Teacher
Let's stop teaching to the middle and start teaching to the student.
-- Geoffrey Canada

#Teaching #Students #Middle
When the safety of America is threatened, we will spend any amount of money. The real safety of our nation is preparing this next generation so that they can take our place [in] thinking and technology and democracy.
-- Geoffrey Canada

#Real #Educational #Technology
Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure.
-- Geoffrey Canada

#Dollars #Billions #Tolerate
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

#Children #Past #Years
Middle-class families know education begins at birth.
-- Geoffrey Canada

#Class #Birth #Middle
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

#Growing Up #Father #Home
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.
-- Geoffrey Canada

#Issues #Effort #Community
Movies portray men as tough guys.
-- Geoffrey Canada

#Men #Guy #Tough
Many schools today are sacrificing social studies, the arts and physical education so children can cover basic subjects like math, English and science.
-- Geoffrey Canada

#Art #Children #School
An extended school day gives administrators the ability to ensure children get a well-rounded education.
-- Geoffrey Canada

#Children #School #Giving
Monsters work seven days a week and don't take vacations.
-- Geoffrey Canada

#Vacation #Monsters #Week
There is an educational cliff we are walking over right this very second.
-- Geoffrey Canada

#Educational #Cliffs #Walking
When kids know that you refuse to let them fail ... they don't give up as easy. So sometimes they don't have it inside, [but] they're like,'You know, I don't want to do this, but I know my mother's going to be mad.'That matters to kids, and it helps get them through.
-- Geoffrey Canada

#Mother #Giving Up
One of the things that sells music is when the artist is looked at as someone who's come up from the streets. Not just any streets, but the toughest, meanest streets of the urban ghetto. And that's called 'street credibility,'
-- Geoffrey Canada

#Ghetto #Artist #Urban
When I was growing up, kids used to talk about snitching. It never extended as a cultural norm outside of the gangsters,
-- Geoffrey Canada

#Growing Up #Kids #Snitch
Osama Bin Laden is not going to come here and destroy America. Our education system is doing that just fine.
-- Geoffrey Canada

#America #Osama Bin Laden #Fine
One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist. I was a comic book reader. I read comic books and I just loved them because even in the depths of the ghetto, you just thought, 'heâ€™s coming. I just donâ€™t know when because he always shows up and saves all the good people.â€™ I was maybe in the fourth grade, fifth grade; I was like â€˜Mom you think Supermanâ€™s coming?â€™ and she said â€˜Superman is not real.â€™ She thought I was crying because itâ€™s like Santa Claus is not real. I was crying because there was no one coming with enough power to save us.
-- Geoffrey Canada

#Mom #Mother #Real
I want to be a childrenâ€™s heroâ€¦ Children need heroes because heroes give hope; without hope they have no future.
-- Geoffrey Canada

#Children #Hero #Giving
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

#Educational #Teaching #Phones
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

#Jobs #Teaching #School

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