Rafe Esquith Quotes - Page 2

• I have students who are PhDs in music who come back and scored the music and teach the kids the instruments that I don't know how to play. Those are the points of light, the former students.

  Rafe Esquith

  Kids, Light, Play

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• I always tell the kids that excellence is like pregnancy. You can't be a little bit pregnant. You either are or you're not.

  Rafe Esquith

  Pregnancy, Kids, Excellence

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• There's a difference between logic and what maybe people see when they're presented evidence and justice and that they're not always together.

  Rafe Esquith

  Differences, People, Justice

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• One of the funny things about the racism of the system, when I started 30 years ago, I'm in an area called Koreatown and most of the kids were Asian. And when the kids did well, people said, "Well, of course, they did well. They're Asians." But when we had this huge influx of Latino children from Central America, they said, "Oh, you're gonna have problems now."

  Rafe Esquith

  Children, Kids, Years

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