The life in our school does not come from any preconceptions anyone has about what children need or about what they are. Headstart blunders about with canons of presuppositions, preconceptions, vain expectations, and middle class notions of good behavior that would be inaccurate enough if Headstart were dealing with the middle class; they are inaccurate and dangerous notions when they are brought into the lives of black children in Harlem. (p. 68)