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1 " Knowledge counts but common sense matters. "
― LouAnne Johnson , Dangerous Minds
2 " There are two kinds of books in the world--the boring kind they make you read in school and the interesting kind that they won't let you read in school because then they would have to talk about real stuff like sex and divorce and is there a God and if there isn't then what happens when you die, and how come the history books have so many lies in them. "
― LouAnne Johnson
3 " I know you kids are angry, because the world isn't fair. Well, get over it, because it's never going to be fair. The white boys have all the money and all the power and that's the way it is. And they aren't going to give it up - to you or to me. And you can't blame them for it because if you had it, you wouldn't give it to them, either. But fighting each other isn't going to fix anything. All it's going to do is let everybody go on insisting that black and Hispanic kids are ignorant and violent. That's perfect. It's easy. If you're ignorant and violent, people who don't like you can kick you out of school or put you in jail. And it's you own fault. "
4 " Be careful. Everything you say, every single day, may be recorded in your students’ hearts forever. "
― LouAnne Johnson , Teaching Outside the Box: How to Grab Your Students by Their Brains
5 " He thinks if he tells us for hundred times a day that he went to Stanford University, then we'll appreciate what a big sacrifice he's making to be a teacher who gets paid crap. "
― LouAnne Johnson , Muchacho
6 " We'll talk to them in Spanish and if they don't understand us, we'll say it louder and slower, and shake our heads because how stupid can you be not to be able to speak such a simple language. "
7 " Just because you remember somebody real good doesn't mean they remember you back. "
8 " He doesn't even know he has a choice. He really believes he has to be a loser forever. "
9 " I communicate that philosophy to my students frequently, to remind them that whenever I ask them to do something, my goal is to help them be successful—not simply to issue orders. Once "
