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.
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 … - Geoffrey Canada
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 …
- Geoffrey Canada
Osama Bin Laden is not going to come here and destroy America. Our education system is doing that just fine. - Geoffrey Canada
Osama Bin Laden is not going to come here and destroy America. Our education system is doing that just fine.
I want to be a children’s hero… Children need heroes because heroes give hope; without hope they have no future. - Geoffrey Canada
I want to be a children’s hero… Children need heroes because heroes give hope; without hope they have no future.
You have to be prepared to think outside the box...Stand back and think about what we could do creativity. We've got to do that to push the field for… - Geoffrey Canada
You have to be prepared to think outside the box...Stand back and think about what we could do creativity. We've got to do that to push the field for…
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 wa… - Geoffrey Canada
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 wa…
Boys want to grow up to be like their male role models. And boys who grow up in homes with absent fathers search the hardest to figure out what it me… - Geoffrey Canada
Boys want to grow up to be like their male role models. And boys who grow up in homes with absent fathers search the hardest to figure out what it me…
It's easy to have faith when everything is going great. The real test of faith is when you're facing something that only your faith in God will get y… - Geoffrey Canada
It's easy to have faith when everything is going great. The real test of faith is when you're facing something that only your faith in God will get y…
Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure. - Geoffrey Canada
Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure.
Let's stop teaching to the middle and start teaching to the student. - Geoffrey Canada
Let's stop teaching to the middle and start teaching to the student.
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