"In many of the high schools in the……" — Jonathan Kozol
"In many of the high schools in the South Bronx, more children will end up in prison than will go to college."
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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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More Bronx Quotes
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I'm tenacious, I think - I know - and I do also have a quality where if you tell me…
— Ellen Barkin
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The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships.
— Kurtis Blow
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Sometimes you think they must have come out of the chimp cages at the Bronx zoo.
— Gerry Cheevers
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Hip-hop went through different stages, from the beginning in the streets of the Bronx, to the whole Tri-State area and…
— Afrika Bambaataa
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So you think that hip-hop had it's start out in Queensbridge, If you popped that junk up in the Bronx…
— Krs One
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Poor people know poor people, and rich people know rich people. It is one of the few things La Rochefoucauld…
— Moss Hart
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In Manhattan, and its true on some level till this day; its a whole different mentality from the Bronx, Brooklyn…
— Kool Moe Dee
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Sustainable South Bronx advocates for environmental justice through sustainable environmental and economic development projects.
— Majora Carter
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Neither the Destruction of the Ninth Ward Nor the South Bronx Was Inevitable
— Majora Carter
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As someone who grew up in the Bronx, I certainly learned my share of four-letter words, but none are more…
— Linda Kaplan Thaler
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I was haunted always by my other life-my drab room in the Bronx, my square foot of the subway, my…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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When you're a kid with artistic yearnings brought up in the Bronx, you don't get fed up too easily.
— Daniel Libeskind
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