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Public Quotes by Jonathan Kozol
- The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function which…
- In public schooling, social policy has been turned back almost one hundred years.
- The greatest difference between now and 1964, when I began teaching, is that public policy has pretty much eradicated the dream of Martin Luther King.
- I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education.
- Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance.
- During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time…
- If we allow public funds to be used to support our relatively benign, morally grounded schools, we will have to allow those public funds to…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
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- Dare to risk public criticism. — Mary Kay Ash
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- It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he… — Charles Babbage
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- I am a woman with a calling for social struggle and public service. — Michelle Bachelet
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