Children Quotes by Jonathan Kozol

Young children give us glimpses of some things that are eternal.

— Jonathan Kozol

Children sometimes understand things that most grown-ups do not see.

— Jonathan Kozol

In many of the high schools in the South Bronx, more children will end up in prison than will go to college.

— Jonathan Kozol

We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals.

— Jonathan Kozol

Childhood is not merely basic training for utilitarian adulthood. It should have some claims upon our mercy, not for its future value…

— Jonathan Kozol

The last thing the theatre owners wanted was for people who spent $200 to see 'Les Miserables' to come out again and…

— Jonathan Kozol

Congress has an opportunity to take advantage of the opening created by Justice Kennedy later this year when it reauthorizes the federal…

— Jonathan Kozol

Our nation's oldest sin and deepest crime is the isolation of minority children - black children, in particular - in schools that…

— Jonathan Kozol

Unlike these powerful grown-ups, children have no ideologies to reinforce, no superstructure of political opinion to promote, no civic equanimity or image…

— Jonathan Kozol

But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into…

— Jonathan Kozol

No Child Left Behind widens the gap between the races more than any piece of educational legislation I've seen in 40 years.…

— Jonathan Kozol

I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education…

— Jonathan Kozol

The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are…

— Jonathan Kozol

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

“Research experts want to know what can be done about the values of poor segregated children; and this is a question that…

— Jonathan Kozol

'Savage Inequalities' was about school finance, and 'Amazing Grace' primarily dealt with medical and social injustices in New York. But with 'Ordinary…

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I have been criticized throughout the course of my career for placing too much faith in the reliability of children's narratives; but…

— Jonathan Kozol

President Obama's first term in office has been better for intentions than for actual changes in planning and policy. I do believe,…

— Jonathan Kozol

The trouble is not that schools don't work; they do. They're excellent machines for achieving historically accepted purposes. In suburban schools are…

— Jonathan Kozol

Placing the burden on the individual to break down doors in finding better education for a child is attractive to conservatives because…

— Jonathan Kozol

Many of us regard ourselves as mildly liberal or centrist politically, voice fairly pleasant sentiments about our poor children, contribute money to…

— Jonathan Kozol

But what is now encompassed by the one word (“school”) are two very different kinds of institutions that, in function, finance and…

— Jonathan Kozol

“There is a belief advanced today, and in some cases by conservative black authors, that poor children and particularly black children should…

— Jonathan Kozol

It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of Negro children…

— Jonathan Kozol

We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals. No, I refuse…

— Jonathan Kozol

I don't know if anything I write will endure, but I do try to write it as a narrative that will not…

— Jonathan Kozol

If there are amazing graces on this earth, I believe that they are these good children sent to us by God and…

— Jonathan Kozol

'Death at an Early Age' was about racial segregation in Boston. 'Illiterate America' was about grownups who can't read. 'Rachel and Her…

— Jonathan Kozol

On Mondays and Fridays in early May, nearly 18,000 children-the equivalent of all the elementary students in suburban Glencoe, Wilmette, Glenview, Kenilworth,…

— Jonathan Kozol

No Child Left Behind's fourth-grade gains aren't learning gains, they're testing gains. That's why they don't last. The law is a distraction…

— Jonathan Kozol

At present, black children are more segregated in their public schools than at any time since 1968. In the inner-city schools I…

— Jonathan Kozol

People rarely speak of children; you hear of 'cohort groups' and 'standard variations,' but you don't hear much of boys who miss…

— Jonathan Kozol

East St. Louis-which the local press refers to as "an inner city without an outer city"-has some of the sickest children in…

— Jonathan Kozol

Children are not simply commodities to be herded into line and trained for the jobs that white people who live in segregated…

— Jonathan Kozol

Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are, we are measuring them only by the standard of whether they…

— Jonathan Kozol

In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to…

— Jonathan Kozol

No matter what happens in a child's home, no matter what other social and economic factors may impede a child, there's no…

— Jonathan Kozol

Hypersegregated inner-city schools - in which one finds no more than five or ten white children, at the very most, within a…

— Jonathan Kozol

The first ten, twelve or fifteen years of life are excavated of inherent moral worth in order to accommodate a regimen of…

— Jonathan Kozol

Childhood ought to have at least a few entitlements that aren't entangled with utilitarian considerations. One of them should be the right…

— Jonathan Kozol