Citas de Geoffrey Canada

• When you see a great teacher, you are seeing a work of art.

  Geoffrey Canada

  Education, Teacher, Art

  "The Real Problem With Waiting for 'Superman'" by Aaron Swartz, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 7, 2010.

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• Tienes que estar preparado para pensar fuera de la caja... Hazte a un lado y piensa en lo que podríamos hacer con creatividad. Tenemos que hacerlo para impulsar el campo.

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  Creativity, Thinking, Fields

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• I want to be a children’s hero… Children need heroes because heroes give hope; without hope they have no future.

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  Children, Hero, Giving

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• One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist. I was like what do you mean he's not real. And she thought I was crying because it’s like Santa Claus is not real and I was crying because there was no one coming with enough power to save us.

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  Mamá, Madre, Real

  "Waiting for 'Superman'". www.imdb.com. January 22, 2010.

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• When kids know that you refuse to let them fail ... they don't give up as easy. So sometimes they don't have it inside, [but] they're like,'You know, I don't want to do this, but I know my mother's going to be mad.'That matters to kids, and it helps get them through.

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  Madre, Renunciar, No Renunciar

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• Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure.

  Geoffrey Canada

  Dollars, Billions, Tolerate

  "Geoffrey Canada warns Michael Gove teaching unions 'kill' innovation" by Jeevan Vasagar, Allegra Stratton, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2010.

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• Build an organization that can tackle the tough things and keep moving.

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  Moving, Organization, Tough

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• En los últimos cinco años, me he reunido con varios presidentes, varios secretarios de educación... y no hay ningún plan. Si quieren salvar a sus hijos, tendrán que hacerlo ustedes mismos. Somos sólo nosotros.

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  Children, Past, Years

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• When the safety of America is threatened, we will spend any amount of money. The real safety of our nation is preparing this next generation so that they can take our place [in] thinking and technology and democracy.

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  Education, Real, Technology

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• Los niños quieren ser de mayores como sus modelos masculinos. Y los niños que crecen en hogares con padres ausentes son los que más tratan de averiguar qué significa ser varón.

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  Crecer, Padre, Hogar

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• Es fácil tener fe cuando todo va bien. La verdadera prueba de fe es cuando te enfrentas a algo que sólo tu fe en Dios te ayudará a superar.

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  Real, Have Faith, Tests

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• Let's stop teaching to the middle and start teaching to the student.

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  Teaching, Students, Middle

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• Osama Bin Laden is not going to come here and destroy America. Our education system is doing that just fine.

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  America, Osama Bin Laden, Fine

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• ¿Por qué cuando teníamos teléfonos de disco, cuando había gente lisiada por la polio, enseñábamos de la misma manera que ahora?

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  Educational, Teaching, Phones

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• En la actualidad, muchas escuelas sacrifican los estudios sociales, las artes y la educación física para que los niños puedan cursar asignaturas básicas como matemáticas, inglés y ciencias.

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  Arte, Niños, Escuela

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• An extended school day gives administrators the ability to ensure children get a well-rounded education.

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  Children, School, Giving

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• I graduated from Bowdoin College and went to the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Then I left and took a job teaching really poor inner-city white kids in Boston. It was interesting to me because I'd never been around poor whites before.

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  Jobs, Enseñanza, Escuela

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• Hay un acantilado educativo sobre el que estamos caminando en este mismo segundo.

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  Educational, Cliffs, Walking

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• Las familias de clase media saben que la educación empieza al nacer.

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  Class, Birth, Middle

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• Monsters work seven days a week and don't take vacations.

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  Vacation, Seven Days, Monsters

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• The rates of soda consumption in our poorest communities cannot be explained by individual consumer preferences alone, but rather are linked to broader issues of access and affordability of healthy foods in low-income neighborhoods, and to the marketing efforts of soda companies themselves.

  Geoffrey Canada

  Issues, Effort, Community

  "NYC’s SNAP Sugary Beverage Ban Is the Right Idea" by Geoffrey Canada, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2011.

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• Una de las cosas que vende música es cuando el artista es visto como alguien que ha salido de la calle. No de cualquier calle, sino de las calles más duras y malvadas del gueto urbano. Y eso se llama "credibilidad callejera".

  Geoffrey Canada

  Ghetto, Artist, Urban

  "The Stop Snitchin' Crisis; Did U.S. Military Choose Public Relations Over Truth in Tillman Death?; War of Words Over Iraq Funding Escalates". "Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees", April 24, 2007.

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• If you raise a child, there's no time, you can't be a great parent.

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  Children, Parent, Raises

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• When I was growing up, kids used to talk about snitching... It never extended as a cultural norm outside of the gangsters.

  Geoffrey Canada

  Growing Up, Kids, Snitch

  "Stop Snitchin'". "60 Minutes" with Anderson Cooper, www.cbsnews.com. April 22, 2007.

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• Movies portray men as tough guys.

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  Men, Guy, Tough

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