Lisa Delpit Quotes

If the curriculum we use to teach our children does not connect in positive ways to the culture young people bring to school, it is doomed to failure.

In order to teach you, I must know you.

Those with power are frequently least aware of -- or least willing to acknowledge -- its existence [and] those with less power are often most aware of its existence.

We do not really see through our eyes or hear through our ears, but through our beliefs.

When one 'we' gets to determine standards for all 'we's' then some 'we's' are in trouble.