"I encourage teachers to speak in their own……" — Jonathan Kozol
"I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Don't use the gibberish of the standards writers."
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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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Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories.
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Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties…
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I have a very high opinion of Steve King and his ability, so I would encourage him to consider any…
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I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college…
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Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.
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Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Encourage good music and art and literature in your homes. Homes that have a spirit of refinement and beauty will…
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New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my…
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I have always been one to encourage perseverance.
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This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at…
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In baptism, new Christians become part of a body of fellow believers who are called to spiritually encourage one another…
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I have this feeling that as time goes on, we're not getting any more civilized, and we should be. We're…
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