Home / Quotes / Quote by Martin Haberman

Quote 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’.”

Book:Star Teachers of Children in Poverty

Work

Star Teachers of Children in Poverty

Browse quotes and source details for this work. more

Author

Martin Haberman

Martin Haberman is a renowned author whose works span across various fields, including history, literature, and philosophy. Although specific biographical information is limited, his works have influenced both academic circles and the general public. more

“Within the elaborate tableau of illusions weaved by every optimist lies a cynic longing to escape from its cave. This is not a world redeemed, but one saturated with oppression and misery. That is its currency. I feel as if I am Atlas, but instead of carrying the weight of the world on my shoulders, I am crushed beneath its injustice”

Poverty Illusion Misery Injustice Opression

Book:Lamentations on the Nothingness of Being

Source: Lamentations on the Nothingness of Being

“Such a waste," my mother said whenever she came to a game to find the sidelines littered with wedges, little land mines of uneaten fruit, of privilege. My family was always attuned to such waste: chicken left on the bone by diners too polite to eat with their hands, crusts cut off of sandwiches for children who took only a single bite and left the rest.”

Poverty Food Waste

Book:Transcendent Kingdom

Source: Transcendent Kingdom

“Poverty is greatly exaggerated by sanity.”

Spirituality Poor Poverty Rich Insane Insanity Sanity Sane Stoicism Minimalism

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“It was still not too late to begin, but Jeeter did not have a mule, and he did not have the credit to purchase seed-cotton and guano at the stores. Up until this year, he had lived in the hope that something would happen at the last moment to provide a mule and credit, but now it seemed to him that there was no use hoping for anything any more. He could still look forward to the following year when he could perhaps raise a crop of cotton, but it was an anticipation not so keen as it once had been. He had felt himself sink lower and lower, his condition fall further and further, year after year, until now his trust in God and the land was at the stage where further disappointment might easily cause him to lose his mind and reason. He still could not understand why he had nothing, and would never have anything, and there was no one who knew and who could tell him. It was the unsolved mystery of his life.”