Quotes About Diversity

There are so many different areas to explore. There are so many different types of people. It can crush your dreams or help them come true.

You learned people and artists have, no doubt, all sorts of superior things in your heads; but you're human beings like the rest of us, and we, too, have our dreams and fancies.

I would be happier if it were a full audience full of drag queens. It would be my dreams come true.

Sometimes the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.

Classroom libraries are not 25 copies of 5 books. Classroom libraries are 1000-2000 copies of different books.

It is better to solve one problem five different ways, than to solve five problems one way.

That's at the core of equity: understanding who your kids are and how to meet their needs. You are still focused on outcomes, but the path to get there may not be the same for each one.

Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance.

My grammar be's ebonics, gin tonics, and chronic.

The purpose of a college education is to give you the correct view of minorities, and the means to live as far away from them as possible.

The content of the curriculum should never exclude the realities of the very students who must intellectually wrestle with it. When students study all worlds except their own, they are miseducated.

Apartheid education, rarely mentioned in the press or openly confronted even among once-progressive educators, is alive and well and rapidly increasing now in the United States.

Culture and education are the lethal weapons against all kinds of fundamentalism.

What's gotten in the way of education in the United States is a theory of social engineering that says there is ONE RIGHT WAY to proceed with growing up.

Treat them just the same as anybody else, give them an opportunity to make a living, and to get an education.

When everyone thinks alike, no one thinks very much.

We already have so much pressure towards sameness through radio, film and comic outside the school, that we can't afford to do a thing inside that is not toward individual development.

I believe that education is the greatest equalizer; thus, I will continue to fight to equalize the playing field in an educational atmosphere that is not always level!

By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, it's hard to eat spaghetti.

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

People should be judged on the basis of their performance, not nationality, personality, education, or personal traits and skills.

In ancient times and in our times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and education.

I am suggesting that quality in undergraduate education means giving students a perspective that is global.