6 Quotes by Martin Haberman

For the children and youth in poverty from diverse cultural backgrounds who attend urban schools, having effective teachers is a matter of life and death. These children have no life options for achieving decent lives other than by experiencing success in school … Because it generates extremely high levels of emotional intensity, it [teaching in an urban school system] is more akin to being an air traffic controller than being a ‘schoolteacher’.

If you can create community in a classroom the kids will not drop out.

The pursuit of learning is not a piece of content that can be taught. It is a value that teachers model. Only teachers who are avid, internally motivated learners can truly teach their students the joy of learning.

You cannot teach somebody how to relate to the kids, they have to come with it.

If you believe it’s life or death for the kids, it changes everything you do.

Before we can go on making workers, we must first make people.