"I do get scared about the physical danger……" — Jonathan Kozol
"I do get scared about the physical danger from drug dealers. But it's not in the same league as the danger I feel eating an $80 lunch with my privileged friends to discuss hunger and poverty. That's when my soul feels imperiled."
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106 Quotes by Jonathan Kozol
Jonathan Kozol has 106 quotes on this site.
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More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on…
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We continue, however, to write about important people, prize-winning people, blacks of grandeur, women of great fire, fame or wit.…
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What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you…
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Let's concede that we have decided to let our children grow up in two separate nations, and lead two separate…
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I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy.
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The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to educate good people, but good citizens.…
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If you could lead through testing, the U.S. would lead the world in all education categories. When are people going…
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As damaging as the obsessive emphasis on testing often proves to be for kids in general, I believe that the…
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Childhood is not merely basic training for utilitarian adulthood. It should have some claims upon our mercy, not for its…
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Unlike these powerful grown-ups, children have no ideologies to reinforce, no superstructure of political opinion to promote, no civic equanimity…
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So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with…
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Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools.
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