Pedro Noguera Quotes

#1. 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.

Pedro Noguera

#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.

Pedro Noguera

#3. Kids don't come with instructions. We all mess up. Raising a child is pure impromptu.

Harlan Coben

#4. There's no black and no white, just shades of grey ... But the small betrayals lead to bigger ones, morality is eroded.

Kate Mosse

#5. Mustang, but I shouted it anyway, one last desperate and furtive

John Green

#6. 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.

Pedro Noguera

#7. Eat when it is time to eat. And walk when it is time to walk.

Paulo Coelho

#8. 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.

Pedro Noguera

#9. One of the many disservices done to young people by our schools and colleges is giving them the puffed up notion that they are in a position to pass sweeping judgments on a world that they have barely begun to experience.

Thomas Sowell

#10. 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.

Pedro Noguera

#11. 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.

Pedro Noguera

#12. Graphic novels are such a visually creative world - it's really interesting what they can do in one sketch. Now I'm hooked.

Michelle MacLaren

#13. When it comes to Twitter tweets I try to write things that are brilliant or sweet

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#14. I smoke pot every day, and I love it!

Willie Nelson

#15. Cer sighed. "The bravado of you, Lucaius," he said, like a father disappointed in his son. "This
time will be different because you are in my land, at my mercy, and stripped of all defenses."
"You will make me blush.

Caroline Hanson

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

Pedro Noguera

#17. Boy is this journey ever long. Also arduous.

Dave Barry

#18. 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.

Pedro Noguera

#19. 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.

Pedro Noguera

#20. This morning when I put on my underwear I could hear the fruit-of-the-loom guys laughing at me.

Rodney Dangerfield

#21. What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.

Henry Ford II

#22. We are not masters of our own affections; our inclinations dailyalter: now we love pleasure, and anon we shall dote on business. Human frailty will have it so, and who can help it?

George Etherege

#23. Every sinner needs a saint to balance them out,

K. Bromberg

#24. My mother was an oyster," he said with a wink. "And I'm the pearl.

Leigh Bardugo

#25. 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