I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education. — Jonathan Kozol Education 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
My goal is to connect the young teachers to the old, to reignite their sense of struggle. — Jonathan Kozol Goal Copy Share Image
It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of Negro children… — Jonathan Kozol America Copy Share Image
A dream does not die on its own. A dream is vanquished by the choices ordinary people make about real things in… — Jonathan Kozol Choices Copy Share Image
The answers I remember longest are the ones that answer questions that I didn't think of asking. — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
In schools with a history of chaos, the teacher who can keep the classroom calm becomes virtually indispensable. — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
In public schooling, social policy has been turned back almost one hundred years. — 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
I hope to be remembered for writing books about social justice that also have enough aesthetic value to endure as works of… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book… — Jonathan Kozol Amazing grace 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 Child 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 Copy Share Image
The inequalities are greater now than in '92. Some states have equalized per-pupil spending but they set the 'equal level' very low,… — Jonathan Kozol Districts 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
But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into… — Jonathan Kozol Art Copy Share Image
No Child Left Behind widens the gap between the races more than any piece of educational legislation I've seen in 40 years.… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
The White House, in advancing the agenda for a [school] "choice" plan, rests its faith on market mechanisms. What reason have the… — Jonathan Kozol 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
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
President Obama's first term in office has been better for intentions than for actual changes in planning and policy. I do believe,… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
The trouble is not that schools don't work; they do. They're excellent machines for achieving historically accepted purposes. In suburban schools are… — Jonathan Kozol 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
A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos.… — Jonathan Kozol 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
“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
“Still, the facts are always there. Every teacher, every parent, every priest who serves this kind of neighborhood knows what these inequalities… — Jonathan Kozol Child Copy Share Image
“I want to correct something I told you once,' she says. 'You asked me once if I thought white people wish that… — Jonathan Kozol Black people Copy Share Image
The future teachers I try to recruit are those show have refused to let themselves be neutered in this way, either in… — Jonathan Kozol Affirmation Copy Share Image
“She empathized with those who were true victims but, in her own case, she rejected victimhood. The details of life and the… — Jonathan Kozol Bitterness Copy Share Image
Separate and unequal didn't work 100 years ago. It will not work today. — Jonathan Kozol 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
It's sad that some people who have one exciting moment spend the rest of their lives rehashing it. — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools. — Jonathan Kozol Education 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
Wonderful teachers should never let themselves be drill sergeants for the state. — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance. — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
President Obama still places far too much emphasis on relentless testing with standardized exams. — Jonathan Kozol 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
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