Levi Rogers

“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.”
― Lisa Delpit, "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.”
― Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God

“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