The silenced dialogue- Other Peoples Children Delpit's argument

Lisa Delpit's argument in her article The Silenced Dialogue is that educators do not realize the power they have over their students and how their ways of teaching affect their students. she also stresses on the fact that the education system is centered around people of middle and upper class therefore making life for students of color and lower class more difficult. she mentions many occasions in which this argument is very apparent. She says how white teachers concentrate more on educating their white students for the future than their African American students. According to Delpit we are education African American students on how to be successful in a white mans world, which is not fair to those children. She raises the issue that many teachers think they are doing the right thing in teaching African American students based on research they have done but they don't think about the perspective of the children.

Many things I read in this article were things I did not think about before reading, but I definitely agree with now. As a future educator I think it is important to think about every student and be able to accommodate every students needs differently.