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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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It doesn't bother me that I'm not a household word on the East Coast. Baton Rouge, Raleigh, Minneapolis - I'm so popular…
— Elayne Boosler
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Minneapolis has two seasons: Road Removal and Snow Repair.
— Steven Brust
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A Minneapolis, Minnesota high school teacher hung this sign under the clock in her classroom. "Time will pass...Will you?"
— James E. Myers
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I was testing a P-51 fighter in Minneapolis when I spotted this object. I was at about 10,000 feet on a nice,…
— Deke Slayton
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Say, I was on The Craig Kilbourne Show and the next day I flew to Minneapolis. I was at the airport and…
— Mitch Hedberg
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Six imams removed from a US Airways flight from Minneapolis to Phoenix are calling on Muslims to boycott the airline. If only…
— Ann Coulter
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St. Louis is closer to Minneapolis than Milwaukee is.
— Bud Selig
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Eventually I got asked to be in a Michael J. Fox sitcom called High School U.S.A. I didn’t think it was funny…
— Joel Hodgson
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I was, aged nine, the go-to kid in Minneapolis for a commercial voiceover.
— Vincent Kartheiser
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Where I come from, when a Catholic marries a Lutheran it is considered the first step on the road to Minneapolis.
— Garrison Keillor
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I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.
— Kate DiCamillo
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I don't love L.A. I love New York and Minneapolis, so if I have a choice I'll stay in those places.
— Josh Hartnett
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