Rafe Esquith Quotes - Page 2

• You hear terrible stories because there'll be a story about some terrible kid, but most of the kids I work with are terrific kids. They're poor, maybe their families are broken, so they're not coming home to a mom and dad and a nice dinner every night. But these kids are capable.

  Rafe Esquith

  Mom, Dad, Nice

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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

  Source: www.pbs.org

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