A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its… — Jonathan Kozol Clever Copy Share Image
Apartheid does not happen spontaneously, like bad weather conditions. — Jonathan Kozol Apartheid 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 Areas Copy Share Image
But when I went to Harvard, it kind of got washed out of me, partly because people made fun of you in… — Jonathan Kozol College Copy Share Image
The rich...should beg the poor to forgive us for the bread we bring them. Healthy people sometimes feel they need to beg… — Jonathan Kozol Asking for forgiveness Copy Share Image
My goal is to connect the young teachers to the old, to reignite their sense of struggle. — Jonathan Kozol Goal Copy Share Image
The first ten, twelve or fifteen years of life are excavated of inherent moral worth in order to accommodate a regimen of… — Jonathan Kozol Accommodate Copy Share Image
“A caste society,” wrote U.S. Commissioner of Education Francis Keppel 25 years ago, “violates the style of American democracy.… The nation in… — Jonathan Kozol American democracy Copy Share Image
Many of those who argue for vouchers say that they simply want to use competition to improve public education. I don't think… — Jonathan Kozol Competition Copy Share Image
“Equity, after all, does not mean simply equal funding. Equal funding for unequal needs is not equality.” — Jonathan Kozol Equality Copy Share Image
I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Don't use the gibberish of the standards writers. — Jonathan Kozol Speak Copy Share Image
In many of the high schools in the South Bronx, more children will end up in prison than will go to college. — Jonathan Kozol Bronx Copy Share Image
When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King… — Jonathan Kozol Air Copy Share Image
In schools with a history of chaos, the teacher who can keep the classroom calm becomes virtually indispensable. — Jonathan Kozol Becomes Copy Share Image
Governor Romney has said nothing about preschool. I think that giving the poorest kids in America wonderful preschool, and three years of… — Jonathan Kozol About Copy Share Image
I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure. — Jonathan Kozol Done 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 Cheated Copy Share Image
You have to remember. . .that for this little boy whom you have met, his life is just as important to him,… — Jonathan Kozol Boys Copy Share Image
We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals. — Jonathan Kozol Children Copy Share Image
If we allow public funds to be used to support our relatively benign, morally grounded schools, we will have to allow those… — Jonathan Kozol Benign Copy Share Image
But what is now encompassed by the one word (“school”) are two very different kinds of institutions that, in function, finance and… — Jonathan Kozol Children Copy Share Image
I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy. — Jonathan Kozol Accept Copy Share Image
