“In other words, every human brain has the built-in capacity to become, over time, what we demand of it. No ability is fixed. Practice can even change the brain.”
― "Multiplication Is for White People": Raising Expectations for Other People's Children
― "Multiplication Is for White People": Raising Expectations for Other People's Children
“Focusing solely on the minutiae of learning will not create educated people. But that is exactly what is happening too often, in too many of our schools.”
― "Multiplication Is for White People": Raising Expectations for Other People's Children
― "Multiplication Is for White People": Raising Expectations for Other People's Children
“I write these words because what we need to know at a very deep level is that African American children do not come into this world at a deficit. There is no “achievement gap” at birth—at”
― "Multiplication Is for White People": Raising Expectations for Other People's Children
― "Multiplication Is for White People": Raising Expectations for Other People's Children
“Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.”
― The Divine Conspiracy: A Study of Spiritual Reality in Christian Thought
― The Divine Conspiracy: A Study of Spiritual Reality in Christian Thought
“The visible, in-your-face manifestations of oppression have been mostly eliminated. But you scarcely can find a Black student who cannot recall or give you a litany of instances when he or she was automatically assumed to be intellectually incompetent.”
― Young, Gifted, and Black: Promoting High Achievement among African-American Students
― Young, Gifted, and Black: Promoting High Achievement among African-American Students
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