“When the ability to really be who we are becomes a realm of only the privileged, we have lost our capacity to create a school, a home, a country that we love. Period. …
You can create a culture of courage within a classroom that can be the only place a (learner) has to take the armor off his or her heart. The one thing that will kill it faster than anything else… is shame. …
Eight five percent of the men and women I have interviewed over the past fifteen years can remember a shaming incident at school that was so devastating that it forever changed the way they thought of themselves as learners. … Over 90% … can remember (an educator) who made them believe in their self worth when no one else did. … What does that mean?”
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