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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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Some bioengineering is good, especially if it results in plants that are more drought-resistant or perennial food crops.
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If I have any message for others, it is to go for help early and not to be a resistant patient
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I'm very resistant to most forms of theater.
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At the very time that Congress is considering a Bush administration request to equip our troops in Iraq with vehicles that are…
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Embracing your new kind of normal is the most empowering choice you will ever make. It transcends common sense. It is resistant…
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Nothing on earth can resist an absolutely non-resistant person.
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