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
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
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
It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of Negro children… — 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
Public school was never in business to produce Thoreau. It is in business to produce a man like Richard Nixon and, even… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The White House, in advancing the agenda for a [school] "choice" plan, rests its faith on market mechanisms. What reason have the… — 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
Let's concede that we have decided to let our children grow up in two separate nations, and lead two separate kinds of… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I… — 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… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Hypersegregated inner-city schools - in which one finds no more than five or ten white children, at the very most, within a… — 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 Copy Share Image
As a matter of record, New York City spends a higher portion of its budget on instruction and associated costs within the… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
I'd love to go back and teach primary school. I used to teach fourth grade and fifth grade. I'd love to spend… — 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
If we allow public funds to be used to support our relatively benign, morally grounded schools, we will have to allow those… — 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
In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Children, of course, don't understand at first that they are being cheated. They come to school with a degree of faith and… — Jonathan Kozol 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 Copy Share Image
As damaging as the obsessive emphasis on testing often proves to be for kids in general, I believe that the effects are… — 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
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