Good teachers don't approach a child of this age with overzealousness or with destructive conscientiousness. They're not drill-masters in the military or… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
I tell young teachers who are determined to dissent from some of the Draconian aspects of the current orthodoxy that the best… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Well, teachers have been profoundly demoralized in recent years and are often treated with contempt by politicians. There's a great deal of… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
My goal is to connect the young teachers to the old, to reignite their sense of struggle. — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Don't use the gibberish of the standards writers. — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Wonderful teachers should never let themselves be drill sergeants for the state. — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
I emphasize teachers because they are largely left out of the debate. None of the bombastic reports that come from Washington and… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Political struggle is the most important thing any of us can do as a citizen in a democracy; and that means the old joining… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share
The future teachers I try to recruit are those show have refused to let themselves be neutered in this way, either in their private… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share
“Unless we have the wealth to pay for private education, we are compelled by law to go to public school—and to the public school… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share
At present, black children are more segregated in their public schools than at any time since 1968. In the inner-city schools I visit, minority… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share
“I want to correct something I told you once,' she says. 'You asked me once if I thought white people wish that Puerto Rican… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share
Let's concede that we have decided to let our children grow up in two separate nations, and lead two separate kinds of lives. If,… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share
Our political establishment refuses to use the word 'segregated.' They call the schools diverse, which means half black, half Hispanic, and maybe two white… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share
'Savage Inequalities' was about school finance, and 'Amazing Grace' primarily dealt with medical and social injustices in New York. But with 'Ordinary Resurrections,' I… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share
If you could lead through testing, the U.S. would lead the world in all education categories. When are people going to understand you don't… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share
No Child Left Behind widens the gap between the races more than any piece of educational legislation I've seen in 40 years. It denies… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share
An awful lot of people come to college with this strange idea that there's no longer segregation in America's schools, that our schools are… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share
The answers I remember longest are the ones that answer questions that I didn't think of asking. — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share
