This paper examines the importance of having a multicultural curriculumin amulticultural society. It focuses on the theory of “recognition” and its application in multicultural educational contexts. Recognition is an important social mechanism that needs to be practiced at both personal and social levels. In the public place of school, students of different race, gender, class, and ethnicity need to be recognized for their individuality and distinctness from everyone else so that their identity is not glossed over by the identity of the majority group. Meanwhile, students should be treated all equally as human beings no matter where they are coming from or what their differences are. This is what Charles Taylor calls ‘the politics of difference’ and ‘the politics of equal dignity’. Recognition, whether it is recognition of human differences or it is recognition of human equality, needs to be a central concern of educators and be practiced at schools. This paper examines Taylor’s politics of recognition as well as Charles Bingham’s idea on “mirroring” which is very much related to the concept of recognition. In addition, using Vivian Paley's teaching experiences, some practical examples will be given to explain recognizing students for who they are and celebrating their heterogeneity in classroom.