You need massive recruitment to tell the poorest of the poor what is possible. — Jonathan Kozol Massive 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 Citizens Copy Share Image
I don't know if anything I write will endure, but I do try to write it as a narrative that will not… — Jonathan Kozol Also Copy Share Image
The fact that a crime might have been committed with impunity in the past may make it seem more familiar and less… — Jonathan Kozol Any 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 Bent Copy Share Image
So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge… — Jonathan Kozol Advantage 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
“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
Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools. — Jonathan Kozol White 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 Education 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 Cities Copy Share Image
I went to Washington to challenge the soft bigotry of low expectations — Jonathan Kozol Bigotry Copy Share Image
I think a moment of critical energy has suddenly emerged. But moments like this come and go unless we seize them at… — Jonathan Kozol Come and go 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 Adults 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 Age Copy Share Image
The last thing the theatre owners wanted was for people who spent $200 to see 'Les Miserables' to come out again and… — Jonathan Kozol Again Copy Share Image
We continue, however, to write about important people, prize-winning people, blacks of grandeur, women of great fire, fame or wit. We do… — Jonathan Kozol Educational Copy Share Image
“I find I like to talk with her as often as I can. It feels to me as if I'm standing with… — Jonathan Kozol Courage 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 Areas Copy Share Image
I tell young teachers who are determined to dissent from some of the Draconian aspects of the current orthodoxy that the best… — Jonathan Kozol Aspects Copy Share Image
The ones I pity are the ones who never stick out their neck for something they believe, never know the taste of… — Jonathan Kozol Adventure Copy Share Image
Placing the burden on the individual to break down doors in finding better education for a child is attractive to conservatives because… — Jonathan Kozol Ambition Copy Share Image
Many of us regard ourselves as mildly liberal or centrist politically, voice fairly pleasant sentiments about our poor children, contribute money to… — Jonathan Kozol Amenities 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 Being true Copy Share Image
