Education Quote by Jonathan Kozol Download Open image “In public schooling, social policy has been turned back almost one hundred years.” — Jonathan Kozol ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Education Has beens Hundred Policy Public school Schooling Social Social policy Teaching Years
Historically, much of the motivation for public schooling has been to stifle variety and institute social control. — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
How is it we could have a system where schools could remain lousy for 50 years and yet you do exactly the same thing… — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
Somewhere in, I think, the back of the mind of some [education] policy makers is this idea that if we fine-tune it well enough,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I look back and see the kids who made it through school - it made a huge difference in their lives, which made me… — Denise Juneau Copy Share Image
Public schools in the late '80s and early '90s were a total mess... we felt that if I was going to have a good… — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Copy Share Image
The public school education system has done so much for me that it would be wrong not give anything back. — Amanda Warren Copy Share Image
“The story of declining school quality across the twentieth century is, for the most part, a fable,” says social scientist Richard Rothstein, whose book… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
Everything that we used to think got taught at home now seemingly has to be taught in the public school system, and something is… — Ann Richards Copy Share Image
We have an economic policy that is just about 10,000 years out of date. — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
Improving our nation's education system has long been the cornerstone of my policy agenda. — Jared Polis Copy Share Image
The whole idea of a public education was to train young people about how our system of government works, so they could be good… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
While NCLB drove important progress on transparency and data disaggregation, I think it's clear that the status quo in public education is not working… — Michael Bennet Copy Share Image
Political struggle is the most important thing any of us can do as a citizen in a democracy; and that means the old joining… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
The future teachers I try to recruit are those show have refused to let themselves be neutered in this way, either in their private… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Separate and unequal didn't work 100 years ago. It will not work today. — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
“Unless we have the wealth to pay for private education, we are compelled by law to go to public school—and to the public school… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
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… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
“I want to correct something I told you once,' she says. 'You asked me once if I thought white people wish that Puerto Rican… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
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,… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Our political establishment refuses to use the word 'segregated.' They call the schools diverse, which means half black, half Hispanic, and maybe two white… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
'Savage Inequalities' was about school finance, and 'Amazing Grace' primarily dealt with medical and social injustices in New York. But with 'Ordinary Resurrections,' I… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
If you could lead through testing, the U.S. would lead the world in all education categories. When are people going to understand you don't… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“What's the best thing about being in college? Good teachers. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“If one has not a head of steel it will burst; if he has not within it a brain of liquid quicksilver, he will… — Ioannes Amos Commenius Copy Share Image
“let us not teach / what we have learned badly / and not profited by” — H.D. (Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I only began to enjoy studying after I got through the educational system and became a so-called member of society. If something interested me,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
How wonderful it would be, I thought, if only we could practice the teachings of the Buddha as he really taught them from his… — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche Copy Share Image
