Top 22 Rafe Esquith Quotes
#1. I want my kids to know that they're just as good and just as American as Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, or Dr. Martin Luther King. My worst fear is they will become ordinary.
Rafe Esquith
#2. I am asking teachers to understand that we must make the education relevant for the children. If they're only working for the tests or they're only working to please us, they're not going to be interested in school.
Rafe Esquith
#3. You hear terrible stories because there'll be a story about some terrible kid, but most of the kids I work with are terrific kids. They're poor, maybe their families are broken, so they're not coming home to a mom and dad and a nice dinner every night. But these kids are capable.
Rafe Esquith
#4. We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment
Chanakya
#5. I travel a lot with my students. We go on the road and even learn about things like doing your laundry and managing your time. And maybe that's not on the test at the end of the year, but it's in the test of life and that's why my classroom is successful.
Rafe Esquith
#6. I always tell the kids that excellence is like pregnancy. You can't be a little bit pregnant. You either are or you're not.
Rafe Esquith
#7. I try to show the children how every lesson I teach them is going to be something they use in their real life. That's why my kids work so hard, not because I'm so cool. They're working for themselves.
Rafe Esquith
#9. I have students who are PhDs in music who come back and scored the music and teach the kids the instruments that I don't know how to play. Those are the points of light, the former students.
Rafe Esquith
#10. I love Shakespeare. In Shakespeare, tragedy is not just something that's bad. It's something that could be good and is bad.
Rafe Esquith
#11. A world ought to have a few genuine good guys, and not just a spectrum of people running from bad to worse.
Glen Cook
#12. I don't think we expect enough of students. They just need someone to show them the way.
Rafe Esquith
#13. America is concerned more with the possibility of moon folks than the reality of hungry poor folks.
Dick Gregory
#14. There's a difference between logic and what maybe people see when they're presented evidence and justice and that they're not always together.
Rafe Esquith
#15. Baseball is a religion in my classroom. It's a very important part of life, baseball.
Rafe Esquith
#16. The reason I love teaching, it's like being a miner. I find all these undiscovered jewels and, with the right motivation, they're amazed at what they can do. I have to show them their capability.
Rafe Esquith
#17. Should I be concerned over the obvious delight our daughter takes in the ultraviolence?"
"It's genetic.
Young Justice
#18. I want my students to love to read. Reading is not a subject. Reading is a foundation of life, an activity that people who are engaged with the world do all the time
Rafe Esquith
#19. I'm just a bloody guy in a bathroom waiting for the girl of my dreams to realize that she's in love with me.
Chelsea Fine
#20. That's the beauty of art
we strive for perfection but never achieve it. The journey is everything.
Rafe Esquith
#21. Good teachers are an endangered species because they're giving up because of the tests and everything.
Rafe Esquith
#22. I believed that what mattered to God was the direction I was facing not how far away I was. Sin it seemed to me was the refusal to let God be God.
Sara Wheeler
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