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Child Quotes by Jonathan Kozol
- Like grain in a time of famine, the immense resources which the nation does in fact possess go not to the child in the greatest…
- But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. We're…
- The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower…
- Good teachers don't approach a child of this age with overzealousness or with destructive conscientiousness. They're not drill-masters in the military or floor managers in…
- There is something deeply hypocritical in a society that holds an inner-city child only eight years old "accountable" for her performance on a high-stakes standardized…
- Placing the burden on the individual to break down doors in finding better education for a child is attractive to conservatives because it reaffirms their…
- Businessmen are not in business to lose customers, and schools do not exist to free their clients from the agencies of mass persuasion. School and…
- Congress has an opportunity to take advantage of the opening created by Justice Kennedy later this year when it reauthorizes the federal No Child Left…
- I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality…
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- 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
- I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in… — Margaret Atwood
- As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the… — Diane Ackerman
- Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event. — Gaston Bachelard
- I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of… — Michele Bachmann
- In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that… — Enid Bagnold
- A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. — James A. Baldwin
- There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it. — James A. Baldwin
- Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing. — Honore de Balzac
- What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended? — Honore de Balzac
- When I gave birth to my fourth child, I suffered from post partum hemorrhaging. I almost lost my life. I was lucky… — Joyce Banda
- It's not like I want to hop on a bandwagon, because I said it 15 years ago - bringing a child into… — Tyra Banks