I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy. — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
I went to Washington to challenge the soft bigotry of low expectations — Jonathan Kozol Bigotry Copy Share Image
I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Don't use the gibberish of the standards writers. — Jonathan Kozol Education Copy Share Image
Wonderful teachers should never let themselves be drill sergeants for the state. — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools. — Jonathan Kozol Education Copy Share Image
It's sad that some people who have one exciting moment spend the rest of their lives rehashing it. — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
I think a moment of critical energy has suddenly emerged. But moments like this come and go unless we seize them at… — Jonathan Kozol Come and go Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people don't have any idea of how deeply segregated our schools have become all over again. Most… — Jonathan Kozol Education Copy Share Image
There has been so much recent talk of progress in the areas of curriculum innovation and textbook revision that few people outside… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Businessmen are not in business to lose customers, and schools do not exist to free their clients from the agencies of mass… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
I do get scared about the physical danger from drug dealers. But it's not in the same league as the danger I… — Jonathan Kozol Adversity Copy Share Image
I wrote the first book, and I thought people would say: 'Separate and unequal schools in the City of Boston? I didn't… — Jonathan Kozol Book Copy Share Image
Congress has an opportunity to take advantage of the opening created by Justice Kennedy later this year when it reauthorizes the federal… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
The last thing the theatre owners wanted was for people who spent $200 to see 'Les Miserables' to come out again and… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book… — Jonathan Kozol Amazing grace Copy Share Image
Competitive skills are desperately needed by poor children in America, and realistic recognition of the economic roles that they may someday have… — Jonathan Kozol America Copy Share Image
A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos.… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
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 Age Copy Share Image
“Sometimes," he [Congressmen John Lewis] said, "you have to ask for something that you know you may not get. And still you… — Jonathan Kozol Fight Copy Share Image
“This, then, is the dread that seems to lie beneath the fear of equalizing. Equity is seen as dispossession. Local autonomy is… — Jonathan Kozol Democracy Copy Share Image
The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
'Savage Inequalities' was about school finance, and 'Amazing Grace' primarily dealt with medical and social injustices in New York. But with 'Ordinary… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
“The struggle being waged today, where there is any struggle being waged at all, is closer to the one that was addressed… — Jonathan Kozol Black people Copy Share Image
But what is now encompassed by the one word (“school”) are two very different kinds of institutions that, in function, finance and… — Jonathan Kozol Children Copy Share Image
“I want to correct something I told you once,' she says. 'You asked me once if I thought white people wish that… — Jonathan Kozol Black people Copy Share Image
“She empathized with those who were true victims but, in her own case, she rejected victimhood. The details of life and the… — Jonathan Kozol Bitterness Copy Share Image
The future teachers I try to recruit are those show have refused to let themselves be neutered in this way, either in… — Jonathan Kozol Affirmation Copy Share Image
“Still, the facts are always there. Every teacher, every parent, every priest who serves this kind of neighborhood knows what these inequalities… — Jonathan Kozol Child Copy Share Image
President Obama still places far too much emphasis on relentless testing with standardized exams. — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
“Equity, after all, does not mean simply equal funding. Equal funding for unequal needs is not equality.” — Jonathan Kozol Equality Copy Share Image
We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals. — Jonathan Kozol Children Copy Share Image
Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance. — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
The answers I remember longest are the ones that answer questions that I didn't think of asking. — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
In schools with a history of chaos, the teacher who can keep the classroom calm becomes virtually indispensable. — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
A dream does not die on its own. A dream is vanquished by the choices ordinary people make about real things in… — Jonathan Kozol Choices Copy Share Image
Separate and unequal didn't work 100 years ago. It will not work today. — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
We are now operating a school system in America that's more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther… — Jonathan Kozol America Copy Share Image
![“Sometimes," he [Congressmen John Lewis] said, "you have to ask for something that you know you may not get. And still you have to ask for it. It's still worth fighting for and, even if you don't believe that you will see it in your lifetime, you have got to hold it up so that the generation that…” quote by Jonathan Kozol](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/719/jonathan-kozol-2747_fight_sometimes-he-congressmen-john-lewis-said_1062175.jpg)
