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One Quotes by Jonathan Kozol
- What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you to believe. Anyone I know…
- But what is now encompassed by the one word (“school”) are two very different kinds of institutions that, in function, finance and intention, serve entirely…
- In public schooling, social policy has been turned back almost one hundred years.
- 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…
- 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…
- You have to remember. . .that for this little boy whom you have met, his life is just as important to him, as your life…
- 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…
- Public school was never in business to produce Thoreau. It is in business to produce a man like Richard Nixon and, even more, a population…
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle