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
“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
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 Copy Share Image
Consider what it is like to go into a new classroom and to see before you suddenly, and in a way you… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
The primary victims of Katrina, those who were given the least help by the government, those rescued last or not at all,… — Jonathan Kozol Color 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 Copy Share Image
I once made a check of all books in my fourth-grade classroom. Of the slightly more than six hundred books, almost one… — Jonathan Kozol Bombing Copy Share Image
An awful lot of people come to college with this strange idea that there's no longer segregation in America's schools, that our… — Jonathan Kozol America 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 Copy Share Image
Competitive skills are desperately needed by poor children in America, and realistic recognition of the economic roles that they may someday have… — Jonathan Kozol America Copy Share Image
I emphasize teachers because they are largely left out of the debate. None of the bombastic reports that come from Washington and… — Jonathan Kozol 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
More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
There is something deeply hypocritical in a society that holds an inner-city child only eight years old "accountable" for her performance on… — Jonathan Kozol Children Copy Share Image
I write books to change the world. Perhaps I can only change one little piece of that world. But if I can… — Jonathan Kozol Book Copy Share Image
“Evil exists," he says, not flinching at the word. "I believe that what the rich have done to the poor people in… — Jonathan Kozol Evil Copy Share Image
“Many suburban legislators representing affluent school districts use terms such as "sinkhole" when opposing funding for Chicago's children. "We can't keep throwing… — Jonathan Kozol Black hole Copy Share Image
I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education… — Jonathan Kozol Amendment Copy Share Image
Schooling should not be left to the whim or wealth of village elders. I believe that we should fund all schools in… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Businessmen are not in business to lose customers, and schools do not exist to free their clients from the agencies of mass… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
I do get scared about the physical danger from drug dealers. But it's not in the same league as the danger I… — Jonathan Kozol Adversity Copy Share Image
I wrote the first book, and I thought people would say: 'Separate and unequal schools in the City of Boston? I didn't… — Jonathan Kozol Book 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
Public school was never in business to produce Thoreau. It is in business to produce a man like Richard Nixon and, even… — Jonathan Kozol Business Copy Share Image
There has been so much recent talk of progress in the areas of curriculum innovation and textbook revision that few people outside… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people don't have any idea of how deeply segregated our schools have become all over again. Most… — Jonathan Kozol Education Copy Share Image
We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals. No, I refuse… — Jonathan Kozol Children 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
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 Copy Share Image
If there are amazing graces on this earth, I believe that they are these good children sent to us by God and… — Jonathan Kozol Amazing grace 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
'Death at an Early Age' was about racial segregation in Boston. 'Illiterate America' was about grownups who can't read. 'Rachel and Her… — Jonathan Kozol 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
On Mondays and Fridays in early May, nearly 18,000 children-the equivalent of all the elementary students in suburban Glencoe, Wilmette, Glenview, Kenilworth,… — Jonathan Kozol Children Copy Share Image
Now, I don't expect what I write to change things. I think I write now simply as a witness. This is how… — Jonathan Kozol Change Copy Share Image
Even if you never do anything about this, you've benefited from an unjust system. You're already the winner in a game that… — Jonathan Kozol Advantage 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
I tell young teachers who are determined to dissent from some of the Draconian aspects of the current orthodoxy that the best… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
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
