In Chapter 4, Delpit talks about the importance of , and promotes the idea that teachers of "school-dependent" students must be warm demanders. I was moved and inspired by the quote by Geneva Gay, which she includes on pgs. 83-84:
"Teachers must care so much about ethnically diverse students and their achievement that they accept nothing less than high-level success from them and work diligently to accomplish it...This is a very different conception of caring than the often-cited notion of 'gentle nurturing and altruistic concern' which can lead to benign neglect under the guise of letting students of color make their own way and move at their own pace."
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