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Years Quotes by Jonathan Kozol
- What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you to believe. Anyone I know…
- 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…
- In public schooling, social policy has been turned back almost one hundred years.
- At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book to read. Well,…
- 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…
- Separate and unequal didn't work 100 years ago. It will not work today.
- People rarely speak of children; you hear of 'cohort groups' and 'standard variations,' but you don't hear much of boys who miss their cats or…
- It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of Negro children each year.
- 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…
- 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…
- The first ten, twelve or fifteen years of life are excavated of inherent moral worth in order to accommodate a regimen of basic training for…
- There is something deeply hypocritical in a society that holds an inner-city child only eight years old "accountable" for her performance on a high-stakes standardized…
- A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos. Little in my…
- Governor Romney has said nothing about preschool. I think that giving the poorest kids in America wonderful preschool, and three years of it, starting when…
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- Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of the Philippines.… — Benigno Aquino III
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour
- I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids… — J. J. Abrams
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put… — Lance Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and… — Lance Armstrong
- Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next… — Neil Armstrong
- I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude. — Desi Arnaz