Children sometimes understand things that most grown-ups do not see. — Jonathan Kozol Child Copy Share Image
Young children give us glimpses of some things that are eternal. — Jonathan Kozol Child Copy Share Image
Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance. — Jonathan Kozol Come Copy Share Image
I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education. — Jonathan Kozol Education Copy Share Image
Separate and unequal didn't work 100 years ago. It will not work today. — Jonathan Kozol 100 years Copy Share Image
All of my education at Harvard, then Oxford, then Paris was in literature - even my thesis was on Shakespeare. — Jonathan Kozol Books 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 America Copy Share Image
You need massive recruitment to tell the poorest of the poor what is possible. — Jonathan Kozol Massive 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 Exciting Copy Share Image
No human being who wants to read and own a book should ever have to go on a bended knee to get… — Jonathan Kozol Being 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
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
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
Businessmen are not in business to lose customers, and schools do not exist to free their clients from the agencies of mass… — Jonathan Kozol Agencies 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 High school Copy Share Image
During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially.… — Jonathan Kozol Achievement 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 Advancing Copy Share Image
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 Actual Copy Share Image
I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education… — Jonathan Kozol Amendment Copy Share Image
Like grain in a time of famine, the immense resources which the nation does in fact possess go not to the child… — Jonathan Kozol Abundance 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 Belief Copy Share Image
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 Accepted 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… — Jonathan Kozol Education Copy Share Image
“Research experts want to know what can be done about the values of poor segregated children; and this is a question that… — Jonathan Kozol Children 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
'Savage Inequalities' was about school finance, and 'Amazing Grace' primarily dealt with medical and social injustices in New York. But with 'Ordinary… — Jonathan Kozol About 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
“But just as legal segregation in the South was a huge national horror hidden in plain view, so too the massive desolation… — Jonathan Kozol Male privilege Copy Share Image
“I can say it, but it doesn’t seem convincing to most people. I can call it an ‘injustice,’ but that doesn’t always… — Jonathan Kozol Justice Copy Share Image
“What may be learned from the rebuttals made by the defendants in New Jersey and from the protests that were sparked by… — Jonathan Kozol Fear Copy Share Image
“If any lesson may be learned from the academic breakthroughs achieved by Pineapple and Jeremy, it is not that we should celebrate… — Jonathan Kozol Education Copy Share Image
“Shorn of unattractive language about "robots" who will be producing taxes and not burglarizing homes, the general idea that schools in ghettoized… — Jonathan Kozol Goals 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 Inspirational 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
“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
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