Sublime

The only way we are ever going to stop abuse in all its forms is by ceasing to believe that punishing people makes them good.

Schools are not good at dealing with kids who show signs of independent thinking.

“People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care”—

Perhaps I learned that children know the difference between right and wrong, that they do not need to be punished for wrongs they did not intend to commit, and that the wrong itself contains its own punishment. My father was a very wise man. He understood children.

When a white kid doesn’t listen to instructions and hurls blocks across the room, he might be gently chastised, or soothed. When a Black or brown kid does the exact same thing, he’s “corrected” far more aggressively.

classroom as a community of learners (rather than treating faculty as the ultimate and only experts).

Children have a seemingly innate passion for justice; they don’t have to be taught it. They have to have it beaten out of them, in fact, to end up as properly prejudiced adults.

At first it will be mortifying to see that she is not always good, understanding, tolerant, controlled, and, above all, without needs, for these have been the basis of her self-respect.

Educators act as guides