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Jonathan Kozol has 106 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I…
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We continue, however, to write about important people, prize-winning people, blacks of grandeur, women of great fire, fame or wit. We do…
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What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you to believe.…
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Let's concede that we have decided to let our children grow up in two separate nations, and lead two separate kinds of…
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I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy.
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The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is…
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If you could lead through testing, the U.S. would lead the world in all education categories. When are people going to understand…
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As damaging as the obsessive emphasis on testing often proves to be for kids in general, I believe that the effects are…
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Childhood is not merely basic training for utilitarian adulthood. It should have some claims upon our mercy, not for its future value…
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Unlike these powerful grown-ups, children have no ideologies to reinforce, no superstructure of political opinion to promote, no civic equanimity or image…
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So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge…
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Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools.
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I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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Let people who have to observe sickness and death look back and try to register in their observation the appearances which have…
— Florence Nightingale
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I spent twenty-two seasons playing professional baseball. Naturally, success in that field is measured by batting averages, number of home runs and…
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Few scientists now dispute that today's soaring levels of carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere will cause global temperature averages…
— Carl Sagan
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Don't leave it to the law of averages to make you break even.
— Mike Caro
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There's a game out there, and the stakes are high. And the guy who runs it figures the averages all day long…
— Dalton Trumbo
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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon…
— Thomas Carlyle
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In cricket, as in no other game, a great master may well go back to the pavilion scoreless.... In no other game…
— Neville Cardus
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The great body of physical science, a great deal of the essential fact of financial science, and endless social and political problems…
— H.G. Wells
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I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head.
— Dizzy Dean
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God isn't really interested in our batting averages.
— Dale Murphy
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Beware of averages. The average person has one breast and one testicle.
— Dixie Lee Ray
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