"In schools with a history of chaos, the……" — Jonathan Kozol
"In schools with a history of chaos, the teacher who can keep the classroom calm becomes virtually indispensable."
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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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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
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Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike…
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
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Money's important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don't have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.
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When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing…
— Teresa of Avila
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I came to the conclusion months ago, and I said it to members of Congress, that the only way people…
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A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise…
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At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
— Charles Babbage
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In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from…
— Charles Babbage
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There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for…
— Charles Babbage
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In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges…
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