"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."

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Source : Lisa Delpit (2006). “Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom”, p.18, The New Press

Lisa Delpit

#Song Quotes #Teacher Quotes #Teaching Quotes

“There are lot of bands that have too many songs, I think.”

Source : "Built to Spill's Doug Martsch Talks New LP". Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. June 9, 2009.
“If I was asked what my only joy is, maybe it's eating.”
“We do not see everything in the environment in the complete, totally resolved, explicit character of the photograph. We, in fact, prioritize our seeing.”
“I get all my ideas in Switzerland near the Forka Pass. There is a little town called Gletch, and two thousand feet up above Gletch there is a smaller hamlet called Ãœber Gletch. I go there on the fourth of August every summer to get my cuckoo clock fixed. While the cuckoo is in the hospital, I wander around and talk to the people in the streets. They are very strange people, and I get my ideas from them.”
“Problems with visual design can turn users off so quickly that they never discover all the smart choices you made with navigation or interaction design.”
“There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy.”

Source : c.1910 Quoted in Alleyne Ireland An Adventure with a Genius, ch.4.
“I try to make films where the audience forgets the filmmaking and gets engrossed in the story as it unfolds. I don't want them to ever feel bored, or that they're being told what to think, or to feel depressed. I don't like films about victims - I want to celebrate brave survivors like Brenda and the wonderful women in the film.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.”

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