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I want my kids to graduate from high school. But that's not enough. I also want them to go to college. Why? Because rich people's kids go to college. And if that's good enough for them, it's good enough for my kids. Because you know what? College graduates don't tend to go to jail as frequently as nongraduates.

~Geoffrey Canada

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When I first found out that Superman wasn't real, I was about maybe eight. And I was talking to my mother about it. And she was like, 'No, no, no. There's no Superman.' And I started crying. I really thought he was coming to rescue us. The chaos, the violence, the danger. No hero was coming.

~Geoffrey Canada

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Middle-class families know education begins at birth.

~Geoffrey Canada

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The system decides you can't run schools in the summer.

~Geoffrey Canada

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Kids who are poor often have families that have not really been kept informed about... how important it is to read to your child, to reduce stresses in their life, to use positive incentives and words.

~Geoffrey Canada

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My own faith was nurtured by my grandmother and her clinging deeply to her faith when she was dying a painful and slow death from cancer.

~Geoffrey Canada

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I believe that for lots of churches and religious institutions, their main focus on the development of faith among parishioners needs to spread to the community.

~Geoffrey Canada

Topics: Among Believe Churches Community Development Faith Focus Institutions Lots Main Needs Religious Spread I Believe I Believe That

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At a school in Massachusetts where I once worked, we managed early on through consensus. Which sounds wonderful, but it was just a very, very difficult way to sort of manage anything, because convincing everybody to do one particular thing, especially if it was hard, was almost impossible.

~Geoffrey Canada

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The tendency in lots of large organizations is to try and find a comfortable place where you think you can get measured rewards for measured work.

~Geoffrey Canada

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My contract with my teachers is fair, and is two pages. The union contract is 200 pages. You cannot manage your business when you cannot make any decision without going back to 200 pages worth of stuff.

~Geoffrey Canada

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: January 13th, 1952

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