We live in a highly industrialized society and every member of the Black nation must be as academically and technologically develo...ped as possible. To wage a revolution, we need competent teachers, doctors, nurses, electronics experts, chemists, biologists, physicists, political scientists, and so on and so forth. Black women sitting at home reading bedtime stories to their children are just not going to make it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The conviction that the best way to prepare children for a harsh, rapidly changing world is to introduce formal instruction at an ...early age is wrong. There is simply no evidence to support it, and considerable evidence against it. Starting children early academically has not worked in the past and is not working now.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Self-esteem is the real magic wand that can form a child's future. A child's self-esteem affects every area of her existence, from... friends she chooses, to how well she does academically in school, to what kind of job she gets, to even the person she chooses to marry.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Vanessa wanted to be a ballerina. Dad had such hopes for her.... Corin was the academically brilliant one, and a fencer of Olympic... standard. Everything was expected of them, and they fulfilled all expectations. But I was the one of whom nothing was expected. I remember a game the three of us played. Vanessa was the President of the United States, Corin was the British Prime Minister--and I was the royal dog.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Since good fathers aren't' so insecure about their sexuality, they aren't preoccupied with the gender division of parental labor......Their children reap the benefits of Dad's warmth and flexibility, including academically; androgynous fathers do not have preconceptions, say, that boys alone excel in science and girls alone are good at English. Rather they encourage their children's gender-neutral talents.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »