Noguera Pedro Quotes

#1. If you want to find money, focus on people. If you want to lose people, focus on money.

Rob Liano

#2. It's hard to think of another field in which experience is considered a liability and those who know the least about the nuts and bolts of an enterprise are embraced as experts.

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#3. Attitude is no substitute for competence.

Eric Raymond

#4. Stupid pupil, it has to take everything in.

Sylvia Plath

#5. New York rushed to get students into early childhood programs, but the research is clear that it has to be high quality. What we are giving poor kids now in early childhood is nothing like what we are giving middle-class kids in most places.

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#6. The Daimons could, in theory, shoot you until you're too weakened to fight them and then behead you. (Celena)
Want to put a cone around my head like a dog to make sure they can't decapitate me while we're at it? (Rafael)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#7. That's at the core of equity: understanding who your kids are and how to meet their needs. You are still focused on outcomes, but the path to get there may not be the same for each one.

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#8. I wanted us to have an adventure. Because I love that crap. Because I'm not whatever-her-name-is. I don't think it's oh so hard to walk four miles in the snow. I want that. I love that.

John Green

#9. If students don't think that you care and can relate, especially as they get older, they tune you out. I didn't get it in my classes at the graduate school of education. I got it intuitively from my own experiences as a student.

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#10. It's about having a comprehensive vision that includes things like social supports while providing a high-quality education. It seems obvious, but when you look at schools that are really struggling, you don't see high-quality education.

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#11. You don't see a positive culture, stability among teachers, or leadership. We don't focus enough in our policies on creating conditions to educating kids with the greatest needs. There is no state that does that.

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#12. Boys are still led to believe that power is associated with domination.

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#13. And this is all based on a belief system that we never chose to believe. These beliefs are so strong, that even years later when we are exposed to new concepts and try to make our own decisions, we find that these beliefs still control our lives. Whatever

Miguel Ruiz

#14. The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.

Mahatma Gandhi

#15. We need to create schools that are organized to meet the needs of the kids they serve instead of what we've been doing. We expect kids to adjust to the schools and if they can't, we say something is wrong with the child - instead of focusing on engagement and nurturing the love of learning in kids.

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#16. Most departments of education are set up largely to regulate schools and hold them in compliance. They don't really help schools. When a school is struggling with certain kids, they can't go to the state and say, "Can you help us with resources and training?" That should be their role.

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#17. You must never lower yourself to being a person you don't like.

Henry Rollins

#18. I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.

Bernard Berenson

#19. Oklahomans value our children and our seniors. Oklahomans value traditions of faith. Oklahomans value our heroes, our veterans. Oklahomans value innovation and the creative arts.

Brad Henry

#20. My dad was a Communist Party member who fought for his country.

Tim Roth

#21. How do you love? With everything thy heart holds will kindness find its abode in you, with you? Feel the senses that the touch of another brings, behold thy jumping heart when lips part and you enter into loves sweet suffering. Take hold, make thy grip tight for I also know of losing.

Tonny K. Brown

#22. The air of compromise is rarely appreciated fully by men of principle. C. Vann Woodward

Robert A. Caro

#23. Middle-class kids get to play, develop their thinking ability. Poor kids are much more likely to get regimentation under the guise of socialization. On top of it, we have huge segregation in early childhood programs. I don't see these patterns changing anytime soon, and that's a big obstacle.

Pedro Noguera

#24. One of my favorite quotes is:
... If I strike you it ain't going to be in your fancy.

Shannon Stacey

#25. I had the feeling I'd just found something I didn't even know I'd lost. We hovered above the moment like two rain clouds, until I said: Don't swear off all fruit just because you ate one bad apple.

Tiffanie DeBartolo