City Schools Quotes

11 quotes by 9 authors

According to one account of the New York City schools during the 1950s: The teacher could not technically hit the child, but the old crones… — Robert Klein
Let's concede that we have decided to let our children grow up in two separate nations, and lead two separate kinds of lives. If, on… — Jonathan Kozol
Many offenders are tracked for prison at early ages, labeled as criminals in their teen years, and then shuttled from their decrepit, underfunded inner city… — Michelle Alexander
I am involved with 'Write Girl,' which is such a great organization, because they go into inner city schools and work with underprivileged girls to… — Melissa Rosenberg
Hypersegregated inner-city schools - in which one finds no more than five or ten white children, at the very most, within a student population of… — Jonathan Kozol
I became so frustrated with visiting inner-city schools (in America) that I just stopped going. The sense that you need to learn just isn't there.… — Oprah Winfrey
The public school system is not about educating black children. Never has been. Inner-city schools are about social control. Period. Theyâ€™re operated as holding pensâ€”miniature… — Barack Obama
This is the problem with over-crowded inner-city schools there aren't enough parts for everyone in the nativity story. — Karl Pilkington
Imagine if baseball were taught the way science is taught in most inner-city schools. Schoolchildren would get lectures about the history of the World Series.… — Alison Gopnik
At present, black children are more segregated in their public schools than at any time since 1968. In the inner-city schools I visit, minority children… — Jonathan Kozol
Safe Place I rememberd the day when a B-52 flew over my place carring nucler warheads from it's mother bace. I rembered the day when… — Bobby Hazzard

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