Levi Rogers

“Others burn out quickly from carrying the weight of salvation that has been piled upon their young shoulders. Several young Teach for America recruits have told me that their colleagues frequently run back home or off to graduate school with the belief that the children they went to save are unsalvageable—not because of poor teaching but because of their students’ parents, families, or communities.”
― Lisa Delpit, "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.”
― Lisa Delpit, "Multiplication Is for White People": Raising Expectations for Other People's Children

“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.”
― Theresa Perry, Young, Gifted, and Black: Promoting High Achievement among African-American Students

“Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.”
― Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy: A Study of Spiritual Reality in Christian Thought