9 Quotes & Sayings By Geoffrey Canada

Geoffrey Canada is the founder and CEO of the Harlem Children's Zone. He is an internationally recognized leader in education reform and has been described by President Bill Clinton as "one of this country's great civil rights leaders." Canada is the co-founder of Harlem Children's Zone, a non-profit organization that transforms children's lives across Harlem through education, healthcare, and social services. Founded in 1997, Harlem Children's Zone is one of the first and largest federally designated Family Promise agencies serving homeless families and children in New York City.

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Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure. Geoffrey Canada
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Video games offer violent messages, and even the sports video games include taunting and teasing. Geoffrey Canada
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Many schools today are sacrificing social studies, the arts and physical education so children can cover basic subjects like math, English and science. Geoffrey Canada
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If you are a lousy teacher, you should be fired. Geoffrey Canada
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Movies portray men as tough guys. Geoffrey Canada
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People don't believe or understand that a community can lose hope. You can have a whole community where hopelessness is the norm, where folks don't have faith that things will get better because history and circumstances have proven over 30, 40, or 50 years that things don't get better. Geoffrey Canada
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My own faith was nurtured by my grandmother and her clinging deeply to her faith when she was dying a painful and slow death from cancer. Geoffrey Canada
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I believe that for lots of churches and religious institutions, their main focus on the development of faith among parishioners needs to spread to the community. Geoffrey Canada