> “The impressive accomplishments … show that the negative outcomes predicted for kids who grow up in concentrated poverty like Cabrini-Green … are not inevitable,” she wrote. “They result not from a so-called ‘culture of poverty’ but from a poverty of opportunities.” [source](https://larrycuban.wordpress.com/2018/08/21/you-cant-be-what-you-cant-see/)

> In The Gift of Education, Kenneth Saltman traces the shift from the ‘Scientific Philanthropy’ of the Carnegie, Rockefeller and Ford Foundations to the ‘Venture Philanthropy’ (VP) of Bill Gates. While Scientific Philanthropy extended the “logic of cultural imperialism” and worked to “serve ruling class interests”, it was to some extent built on the idea…

> As Julian Reid and Brad Evans write, we apply the word “resilient” to a population “insofar as it adapts to rather than resists the conditions of its suffering in the world” (2014, 81). [source](http://www.boundary2.org/2018/08/leary/)

> The ideology of innovation, with its emphasis on processes rather than outcomes, and individual brilliance over social structures, asks us to accommodate global inequality, rather than challenge it. It is a kind of idealism, therefore, well suited to our dispiriting neoliberal moment, where the sense of possibility seems to have shrunk. [source](http://www.boundary2.org/2018/08/leary/)