If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to… — Jonathan Kozol Bronx Copy Share Image
The inequalities are greater now than in '92. Some states have equalized per-pupil spending but they set the 'equal level' very low,… — Jonathan Kozol Districts 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
“We should invest in kids like these," we're told, "because it will be more expensive not to." Why do our natural compassion… — Jonathan Kozol Children Copy Share Image
Consider what it is like to go into a new classroom and to see before you suddenly, and in a way you… — Jonathan Kozol Avoid Copy Share Image
Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are, we are measuring them only by the standard of whether they… — Jonathan Kozol Assets 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 Amazing 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 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
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
“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
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
The recklessness with which we sacrifice our sense of decency to maximize profit in the factory farming process sets a pattern for… — Jonathan Kozol Cruelty Copy Share Image
Now, I don't expect what I write to change things. I think I write now simply as a witness. This is how… — Jonathan Kozol Change 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 Almost Copy Share Image
Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance. — Jonathan Kozol Come 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
“Many suburban legislators representing affluent school districts use terms such as "sinkhole" when opposing funding for Chicago's children. "We can't keep throwing… — Jonathan Kozol Black hole Copy Share Image
Our nation's oldest sin and deepest crime is the isolation of minority children - black children, in particular - in schools that… — Jonathan Kozol Black 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
“Evil exists," he says, not flinching at the word. "I believe that what the rich have done to the poor people in… — Jonathan Kozol Poor people Copy Share Image
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 Behind Copy Share Image
“Sometimes," he [Congressmen John Lewis] said, "you have to ask for something that you know you may not get. And still you… — Jonathan Kozol Goals 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