Richard Rodriguez Quotes About Children

• Creo que el marrón marca el reencuentro de los pueblos, el fin de antiguos vagabundeos. Culturas y credos rivales conspiran con la primavera para crear hijos de una belleza, quizá de una armonía, antes desconocidas. O largo tiempo olvidada.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Children, Spring, Thinking

  Richard Rodriguez (2003). “Brown: The Last Discovery of America”, p.9, Penguin

• In some countries, of course, Spanish is the language spoken in public. But for many American children whose families speak Spanish at home, it becomes a private language. They use it to keep the English-speaking world at bay.

  Richard Rodriguez

  País, Niños, Hogar

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• Bilingual-education advocates say it's important to teach a child in his or her family's language. I say you can't use family language in the classroom - the very nature of the classroom requires that you use language publicly.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Children, Important, Use

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• The popular idea of a role model implies that an adult's influence on a child is primarily occupational, and that all a black child needs is to see a black doctor, and then this child will think, "Oh, I can become a doctor too."

  Richard Rodriguez

  Niños, Pensamiento, Ideas

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• I have a good black friend who is a doctor, but he didn't become a doctor because he saw other black men who were doctors. He became a doctor because his mother cleaned office buildings at night, and because she loved her children. She grew bowlegged from cleaning office buildings at night, and in the process she taught him something about courage and bravery and dedication to others.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Madre, Niños, Noche

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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