My goal is to connect the young teachers to the old, to reignite their sense of struggle. — 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
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
I write books to change the world. Perhaps I can only change one little piece of that world. But if I can… — 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 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
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
In schools with a history of chaos, the teacher who can keep the classroom calm becomes virtually indispensable. — 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
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 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
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
