If you could lead through testing, the U.S. would lead the world in all education categories. When are people going to understand… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
An awful lot of people come to college with this strange idea that there's no longer segregation in America's schools, that our… — Jonathan Kozol 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
At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
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 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 Copy Share Image
'Amazing Grace' is not a book of interviews or onetime snapshots. It's a memoir of a journey that took me into a… — Jonathan Kozol 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 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 Copy Share Image
So long as the most vulnerable people in our population are consigned to places that the rest of us will always shun… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I always want to tell these young idealists that the world is not as dangerous as many in the older generation want… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Children are not simply commodities to be herded into line and trained for the jobs that white people who live in segregated… — Jonathan Kozol 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
What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you to believe.… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is… — 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
We continue, however, to write about important people, prize-winning people, blacks of grandeur, women of great fire, fame or wit. We do… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Many of us regard ourselves as mildly liberal or centrist politically, voice fairly pleasant sentiments about our poor children, contribute money to… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
But when I went to Harvard, it kind of got washed out of me, partly because people made fun of you in… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
The rich...should beg the poor to forgive us for the bread we bring them. Healthy people sometimes feel they need to beg… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy. — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
'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 Copy Share Image
By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
The primary victims of Katrina, those who were given the least help by the government, those rescued last or not at all,… — 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 Image
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 Image
Separate and unequal didn't work 100 years ago. It will not work today. — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
'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 Image
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 Image
