Quotes About Diversity

Culture is the possibility and impossibility that bacon and fruit can appear on the same plate.

When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties.

As we seek to eliminate individualism in teaching, we should not eradicate individuality with it.

Do not ever say to anybody it's time for us to have a woman in the leadership, because that's the least important selling point.

Our world loses out when the leadership doesn't reflect the led - when a minority makes decisions for the majority.

I ask the clergy why don't I see myself represented in leadership? And I'm told, and this happens quite a bit, "We don't think about race when we hire. We just hire the best person for the job."

You can't make a difference unless you are different.

Education, in the broadest of truest sense, will make an individual seek to help all people, regardless of race, regardless of color, regardless of condition.

Learning Indian mannerisms, how to wear saris, and the language were a challenge.

We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't.

Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child

Whether we're talking about race or gender or class, popular culture is where the pedagogy is, it's where the learning is.

The human race is not divided into two opposing camps of good and evil. It is made up of those who are capable of learning and those who are incapable of doing so.

The world cannot afford to lose the talents of half it's people if we are to solve the many problems that beset us.

I think that's what's great about being an actress is you get to learn so many different things like that, like learning a little bit of Tibetan here, learning a Southern accent there.

The better part of valor is to spend it learning to live with differences, however hostile, unless and until we can find another planet.

We must never return to the Julie Andrews curriculum where we teach "a few of my favorite things"!

As long as man remains an inquiring animal, there can never be a complete unanimity in our fundamental beliefs. The more diverse our paths, the greater is likely to be the divergence of beliefs.

He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.

I like doing accents and I like learning as much as I can learn.

Every learner has special needs.

My worst decision was not learning Spanish yet. I think it would really help my business if I could do some of my singles in Spanish or a Spanish/English mix.

We can learn so much looking outside our core field of expertise.

But the great Master said, "I see No best in kind, but in degree; I gave a various gift to each, To charm, to strengthen, and to teach".