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Been Quotes by Jonathan Kozol
- So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories…
- In public schooling, social policy has been turned back almost one hundred years.
- I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.
- If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that you…
- Well, teachers have been profoundly demoralized in recent years and are often treated with contempt by politicians. There's a great deal of reckless rhetoric in…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- I write books to change the world. Perhaps I can only change one little piece of that world. But if I can empower teachers and…
- The fact that a crime might have been committed with impunity in the past may make it seem more familiar and less gruesome, but surely…
- A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos. Little in my…
- Many of those who argue for vouchers say that they simply want to use competition to improve public education. I don't think it works that…
More Been Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour