All Jonathan Kozol Quotes
- If there are amazing graces on this earth, I believe that they are these good children sent to us by God and not yet soiled… Amazing
- I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure. Been
- My goal is to connect the young teachers to the old, to reignite their sense of struggle. Connect
- If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that you… Angeles
- Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. Battle
- I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Don't use the gibberish of the standards writers. Encourage
- Wonderful teachers should never let themselves be drill sergeants for the state. Drill
- The ones I pity are the ones who never stick out their neck for something they believe, never know the taste of moral struggle, and… Believe
- An awful lot of people come to college with this strange idea that there's no longer segregation in America's schools, that our schools are basically… America
- Even if you never do anything about this, you've benefited from an unjust system. You're already the winner in a game that was rigged to… Advantage
- But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. We're… Art
- At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book to read. Well,… Amazing
- Children are not simply commodities to be herded into line and trained for the jobs that white people who live in segregated neighborhoods have available. Available
- I emphasize teachers because they are largely left out of the debate. None of the bombastic reports that come from Washington and think tanks telling… Asks
- The greatest difference between now and 1964, when I began teaching, is that public policy has pretty much eradicated the dream of Martin Luther King. Began
- Well, teachers have been profoundly demoralized in recent years and are often treated with contempt by politicians. There's a great deal of reckless rhetoric in… All
- A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest. Assumed
- President Obama still places far too much emphasis on relentless testing with standardized exams. Emphasis
- Separate and unequal didn't work 100 years ago. It will not work today. Ago
- The answers I remember longest are the ones that answer questions that I didn't think of asking. Answer