Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Lisa Delpit

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American leader Lisa Delpit.

Last updated on December 22, 2024.

Lisa D. Delpit is an American educationalist, researcher, and author. She is the former executive director and Eminent Scholar at the Center for Urban Educational Excellence at Florida International University in Miami, Florida, Benjamin E. Mays Chair of Urban Educational Leadership at Georgia State University, and the first Felton G. Clark Distinguished Professor of Education at Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She earned the MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship for her research on school-community relations and cross-cultural communication.

American - Leader | Born: May 23, 1952

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Those with power are frequently least aware of -- or least willing to acknowledge -- its existence [and] those with less power are often most aware of its existence.

Lisa Delpit

If the curriculum we use to teach our children does not connect in positive ways to the culture young people bring to school, it is doomed to failure.

Lisa Delpit

In order to teach you, I must know you.

Lisa Delpit

Progressive white teachers seem to say to their black students 'Let me help you find your voice. I promise not to criticize one note as you search for your song'. But the black teachers say 'I've heard your song loud and clear. Now I want to teach you to harmonize with the rest of the world.

Lisa Delpit

We do not really see through our eyes or hear through our ears, but through our beliefs.

Lisa Delpit

We do not really see through our eyes or hear through our ears, but through our beliefs. To put our beliefs on hold is to cease to exist as ourselves for a moment -- and that is not easy ... but it is the only way to learn what it might feel like to be someone else and the only way to start the dialogue.

Lisa Delpit

When one 'we' gets to determine standards for all 'we's' then some 'we's' are in trouble.

Lisa Delpit

Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Lisa Delpit

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