Teaching When the World Is on Fire Quotes

“Restorative practices allow us to believe that anyone has the capacity to change; they respect the capacity for human beings to grow, and we owe it to children and maybe to ourselves and other adults to give everyone that chance.”
― Lisa D. Delpit, Teaching When the World Is on Fire

“Education for free people is powered by that precious and fragile ideal: every human being is of infinite and incalculable value, each a work-in-progress and a force-in-motion, a unique intellectual, emotional, physical, spiritual, moral, and creative agent, each endowed with reason and conscience, each deserving a dedicated place in a community of solidarity as well as a vital sense of brotherhood and sisterhood, recognition and respect.”
― Lisa D. Delpit, Teaching When the World Is on Fire

“How do you know what you know about Islam?”
― Lisa Delpit, Teaching When the World Is on Fire

“Our civil rights laws also require educators to protect public school students from harassment based on race, color, national origin, sex, religion, or disability; a school has a responsibility to maintain a safe and nondiscriminatory learning environment for all students. When hostile environments impede student learning, educators must take action to end the harassment, eliminate any hostile environment and its effects, and prevent the harassment from recurring.”
― Lisa Delpit, Teaching When the World Is on Fire

“We must face reality and courageously confront history, tell the truth, and then destroy the entire edifice of white supremacy: metaphorically speaking, it means burning down the plantation.”
― Lisa Delpit, Teaching When the World Is on Fire