Delpit Quote:
"To act as if power does not exist is to ensure that the power status quo remains the same. To imply to children or adults that it doesn't matter how you talk or how you write is to ensure their ultimate failure."
Connections with other authors:
Delpit/Collier:
"I suggest that schools must provide these children the content that other families from a different cultural orientation provide at home. This does not mean separating children according to family background, but instead, ensuring that each classroom incorporate strategies appropriate for all the children in its confines."
Delpit/Kohl:
"The teacher cannot be the only expert in the classroom. To deny students their own expert knowledge is to disempower them... This sense of being cheated can be so strong that the student may be completely turned off to the educational system."
"To act as if power does not exist is to ensure that the power status quo remains the same. To imply to children or adults that it doesn't matter how you talk or how you write is to ensure their ultimate failure."
Connections with other authors:
Delpit/Collier:
"I suggest that schools must provide these children the content that other families from a different cultural orientation provide at home. This does not mean separating children according to family background, but instead, ensuring that each classroom incorporate strategies appropriate for all the children in its confines."
Delpit/Kohl:
"The teacher cannot be the only expert in the classroom. To deny students their own expert knowledge is to disempower them... This sense of being cheated can be so strong that the student may be completely turned off to the educational system."