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
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
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
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
“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
As damaging as the obsessive emphasis on testing often proves to be for kids in general, I believe that the effects are… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or… — Jonathan Kozol Accountability Copy Share Image
“We should invest in kids like these," we're told, "because it will be more expensive not to." Why do our natural compassion… — Jonathan Kozol Children Copy Share Image
Let's concede that we have decided to let our children grow up in two separate nations, and lead two separate kinds of… — Jonathan Kozol Activist Copy Share Image
“Conservatives are generally the ones who speak more passionately of patriotic values. They are often the first to rise up to protest… — Jonathan Kozol Conservatives 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
'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
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
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
Our political establishment refuses to use the word 'segregated.' They call the schools diverse, which means half black, half Hispanic, and maybe… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Apartheid education, rarely mentioned in the press or openly confronted even among once-progressive educators, is alive and well and rapidly increasing now… — Jonathan Kozol Alive Copy Share Image
Political struggle is the most important thing any of us can do as a citizen in a democracy; and that means the… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
If you could lead through testing, the U.S. would lead the world in all education categories. When are people going to understand… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Childhood ought to have at least a few entitlements that aren't entangled with utilitarian considerations. One of them should be the right… — Jonathan Kozol Child Copy Share Image
“A dream does not die on it's own. A dream is vanquished by the choices ordinary people make about real things in… — Jonathan Kozol Dream 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 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
Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are, we are measuring them only by the standard of whether they… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
No matter what happens in a child's home, no matter what other social and economic factors may impede a child, there's no… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Hypersegregated inner-city schools - in which one finds no more than five or ten white children, at the very most, within a… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
