Silenced Dialogue

For this blog post I picked "Silenced Dialogue" by Delpit.
There were a few quotes that stuck out to

me. The first quote is, "they (white people) won't listen; white folks are going to do what they want to do anyway. It's really hard. They just don't listen well. No, they listen, but they don't hear - you know how your mama used to say you listen to the radio, but you hear your mother? Well they don't hear me." This stuck out to me because I think it is very true, not only for African Americans talking to white people, but any one. That is just my opinion. Some people, mainly white people I know, are so fixated on their own opinion, that they don't want to listen to anyone else's. Thus I do agree, I can see why this is mentioned and why it is frustrating. People want their opinions and thoughts to be heard, not for it to go in one person's ear and out the other.

The next quote I chose from Delpit's article is, "if schooling prepares people for jobs, and the kind of jobs a person has determines her or his economic status and, therefore, power, then schooling is intimately related to that power." I couldn't agree more with this statement. Education plays a major role in one's future. The way students develop can impact them for the rest of their life. People are not given the same opportunities as other's, which leads to them not being able to have the same job opportunities because they might not be equally qualified. Schooling and educators have so much power over our future. 

The last quote I have chosen is, “success in institutions – schools, workplaces, and so on – is predicted upon acquisition of the culture of those who are in power." When I read this statement I immediately thought of what Inspiring Minds told us during our training session in class. They gave us numbers on how many words children of different classes hear in an hour. Statistics showed that children of the middle-class heard more words in an hour than children in the lower-class. With this being said I do agree that one's success in school can be predicted upon their environment. 

( http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2010/2010015.pdf )Here is a PDF file I found called, "Status and Trends in  the Education of Racial and Ethnic Groups." I found it very interesting, there are a bunch of facts that tie in with this article.