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Than Quotes by Jonathan Kozol
- Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower…
- Competitive skills are desperately needed by poor children in America, and realistic recognition of the economic roles that they may someday have an opportunity to…
- In many of the high schools in the South Bronx, more children will end up in prison than will go to college.
- 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…
More Than Quotes
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — 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
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle