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School Quotes by Jonathan Kozol
- More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I mean, what is…
- 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…
- 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…
- As damaging as the obsessive emphasis on testing often proves to be for kids in general, I believe that the effects are still more harmful…
- Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools.
- 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…
- Children, of course, don't understand at first that they are being cheated. They come to school with a degree of faith and optimism, and they…
- The White House, in advancing the agenda for a [school] "choice" plan, rests its faith on market mechanisms. What reason have the black and very…
- An awful lot of people come to college with this strange idea that there's no longer segregation in America's schools, that our schools are basically…
- I emphasize teachers because they are largely left out of the debate. None of the bombastic reports that come from Washington and think tanks telling…
- By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of…
- It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of Negro children each year.
- As a matter of record, New York City spends a higher portion of its budget on instruction and associated costs within the schools themselves than…
- 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…
- 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 wrote the first book, and I thought people would say: 'Separate and unequal schools in the City of Boston? I didn't know that. Let's…
- I'd love to go back and teach primary school. I used to teach fourth grade and fifth grade. I'd love to spend several years teaching…
- 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…
- In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing…
- There has been so much recent talk of progress in the areas of curriculum innovation and textbook revision that few people outside the field of…
- 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…
- The future teachers I try to recruit are those show have refused to let themselves be neutered in this way, either in their private lives…
- 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…
- Businessmen are not in business to lose customers, and schools do not exist to free their clients from the agencies of mass persuasion. School and…
- I think a lot of people don't have any idea of how deeply segregated our schools have become all over again. Most textbooks are not…
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- When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands. — Chinua Achebe
- When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines. — Margaret Atwood
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- Almost every day, instead of going to school, I made for the fields, where I spent my day. — John James Audubon
- Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful. — Diane Ackerman
- I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter… — Dan Aykroyd
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