"Even though fathers, grandparents, siblings, memories of ancestors are important agents of socialization, our society focuses on the attributes and characteristics of mothers and teachers and gives them the ultimate responsibility for the child's life chances."

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Source : Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot (1978). “Worlds apart: relationships between families and schools”, Basic Books (AZ)

Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

#Education Quotes #Mother Quotes #Teacher Quotes

“If the text is God's Word, it is appropriate that we respond with reverence, a certain fear, a holy joy, a questing obedience.”
“He bared his teeth in a happy feral grin. My own personal psycho.”
“We met [with Massimo Pupillo] many years ago in the halcyon days of the underground avant-prog math-rock scene when I was playing in Guapo.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“When faced with a situation, the confidence you stand up to that situation with usually pushes the other person to back down because the guy that is trying to start the fight doesn't really want to fight. He just wants a scene.”

Source : Interview with Chris Yandek, www.cyinterview.com. February 21, 2008.
“If a country forgets where it came from, how will its people know who they are?”
“Getting to the next level always requires ending something, leaving it behind, and moving on. Growth demands that we move on. Without the ability to end things, people stay stuck, never becoming who they are meant to be, never accomplishing all that their talents and abilities should afford them.”

Source : Henry Cloud (2011). “Necessary Endings: The Employees, Businesses, and Relationships That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Move Forward”, p.7, Harper Collins
“There are 500 million people on Facebook, but what are they saying to each other? Not much.”
“The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.”

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