So long as the most vulnerable people in our population are consigned to places that the rest of us will always shun… — Jonathan Kozol Aesthetic 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 Balls Copy Share Image
Childhood is not merely basic training for utilitarian adulthood. It should have some claims upon our mercy, not for its future value… — Jonathan Kozol Adulthood Copy Share Image
There is something deeply hypocritical in a society that holds an inner-city child only eight years old "accountable" for her performance on… — Jonathan Kozol Children Copy Share Image
The greatest difference between now and 1964, when I began teaching, is that public policy has pretty much eradicated the dream of… — Jonathan Kozol Differences 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
Children are not simply commodities to be herded into line and trained for the jobs that white people who live in segregated… — Jonathan Kozol Available Copy Share Image
I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education. — Jonathan Kozol Education Copy Share Image
Unlike these powerful grown-ups, children have no ideologies to reinforce, no superstructure of political opinion to promote, no civic equanimity or image… — Jonathan Kozol Children 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
Public school was never in business to produce Thoreau. It is in business to produce a man like Richard Nixon and, even… — Jonathan Kozol Business 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 Book 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
Competitive skills are desperately needed by poor children in America, and realistic recognition of the economic roles that they may someday have… — Jonathan Kozol America 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
“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 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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you to believe.… — Jonathan Kozol Believe Copy Share Image
