So one of the things that happened with integration in the South is they found that the black teachers were much more educated than the white teachers.
More Quotes from Bernice Johnson Reagon:
Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the academic environment.Bernice Johnson Reagon
I just don't think one person has that much to contribute to any subject.
Bernice Johnson Reagon
I was at the Smithsonian for twenty years, and I'm still at the Smithsonian as a curator emeritus, and I still plan to figure out what that means for me at this point in my life.
Bernice Johnson Reagon
I learned that if you bring black people together, you bring them together with a song. To this day, I don't understand how people think they can bring anybody together without a song.
Bernice Johnson Reagon
I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background as their primary training experience.
Bernice Johnson Reagon
It makes sense that whatever the topic is, it's more compelling if you can provide the audience with a range of perspectives, and you can cross disciplines. And you don't have to control what people take out of it.
Bernice Johnson Reagon
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Education Quotes, Teachers QuotesBased on Keywords: integration
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
Anton Chekhov
Inspiration is the key to everything.
Olivia Wilde
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
Robert Louis Stevenson