All Jonathan Kozol Quotes
- Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are, we are measuring them only by the standard of whether they will be future… Assets
- Now, I don't expect what I write to change things. I think I write now simply as a witness. This is how it is. This… Change
- When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive,… Air
- As a matter of record, New York City spends a higher portion of its budget on instruction and associated costs within the schools themselves than… Any
- But when I went to Harvard, it kind of got washed out of me, partly because people made fun of you in college. If you… Believed
- During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time… Achievement
- Hypersegregated inner-city schools - in which one finds no more than five or ten white children, at the very most, within a student population of… Areas
- I once made a check of all books in my fourth-grade classroom. Of the slightly more than six hundred books, almost one quarter had been… All
- I wrote the first book, and I thought people would say: 'Separate and unequal schools in the City of Boston? I didn't know that. Let's… Book
- I'd love to go back and teach primary school. I used to teach fourth grade and fifth grade. I'd love to spend several years teaching… Fifth
- If we allow public funds to be used to support our relatively benign, morally grounded schools, we will have to allow those public funds to… Allow
- In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing… Ads
- The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower… Any
- The first ten, twelve or fifteen years of life are excavated of inherent moral worth in order to accommodate a regimen of basic training for… Accommodate
- The primary victims of Katrina, those who were given the least help by the government, those rescued last or not at all, were overwhelmingly people… All
- There has been so much recent talk of progress in the areas of curriculum innovation and textbook revision that few people outside the field of… Areas
- A dream does not die on its own. A dream is vanquished by the choices ordinary people make about real things in their own lives... Choices
- 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 floor managers in… Age
- You have to remember. . .that for this little boy whom you have met, his life is just as important to him, as your life… Boy
- I have been criticized throughout the course of my career for placing too much faith in the reliability of children's narratives; but I have almost… Actually Goes
- The future teachers I try to recruit are those show have refused to let themselves be neutered in this way, either in their private lives… Affirmation
- I always want to tell these young idealists that the world is not as dangerous as many in the older generation want them to believe...The… Act
- The rich...should beg the poor to forgive us for the bread we bring them. Healthy people sometimes feel they need to beg forgiveness too, although… Ask
- Young children give us glimpses of some things that are eternal. Children
- There is something deeply hypocritical in a society that holds an inner-city child only eight years old "accountable" for her performance on a high-stakes standardized… Accountable