"In order to teach you, I must know you."

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Source : Lisa Delpit (2013). “Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom”, p.162, The New Press

Lisa Delpit

#Order Quotes #Teach Quotes

“It is not your outward appearance that you should beautify, but your soul, adorning it with good works.”
“New Zealand has a great reputation in America for golf.”
“To me, the advantage of the recorder is that it is so natural. I love the fact that it is just a piece of wood, that there are almost no mechanics involved.”
“Compassion is easily forsaken in the midst of prosperity, even when this prosperity is God given.”
“E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires.”
“'One Week' changed my life because I used to be the Million Dollars Guy, and now I'm the Chickity China Guy.”
“The world is more magical, less predictable, more autonomous, less controllable, more varied, less simple, more infinite, less knowable, more wonderfully troubling than we could have imagined being able to tolerate when we were young.”

Source : James Hollis (2005). “Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up”, p.72, Penguin
“I am brave, though I am alone.”

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