Geoffrey Canada : (4) " The system decides you can’t run schools in the summer. " - Geoffrey Canada " When I was growing up, kids used to talk about snitching… It never extended as a cultural norm outside of the gangsters. " - Geoffrey Canada " My own faith was nurtured by my grandmother and her clinging deeply to her faith when she was dying a painful and slow death from cancer. " - Geoffrey Canada " At a school in Massachusetts where I once worked, we managed early on through consensus. Which sounds wonderful, but it was just a very, very difficult way to sort of manage anything, because convincing everybody to do one particular thing, especially if it was hard, was almost impossible. " - Geoffrey Canada