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Teaching Quotes by Jonathan Kozol
- In public schooling, social policy has been turned back almost one hundred years.
- On Mondays and Fridays in early May, nearly 18,000 children-the equivalent of all the elementary students in suburban Glencoe, Wilmette, Glenview, Kenilworth, Winnetka, Deerfield, Highland…
- 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.
- Well, teachers have been profoundly demoralized in recent years and are often treated with contempt by politicians. There's a great deal of reckless rhetoric in…
- When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive,…
- 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…
- 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…
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