"Instead of seeing these children for the blessings……" — Jonathan Kozol
"Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are, we are measuring them only by the standard of whether they will be future deficits or assets for our nation's competitive needs."
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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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People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A…
— Mary Kay Ash
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In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep…
— Julian Assange
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Don't let what you don't know scare you, because it can become your greatest asset. And if you do things…
— Sara Blakely
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The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves,…
— Richard Branson
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I believe that a newspaper is a great civic asset and that ownership is best in the hands of foundations…
— Eli Broad
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When Gordon the Brown, in London in 1997, commissioned a great inquisition or survey of his new realm, the result…
— James Buchan
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Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good…
— Warren Buffett
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Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that…
— Warren Buffett
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Housing associations have fingered the fact that they cannot use their assets as liquidity due to Bank of England rules…
— Vince Cable
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Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
— Winston Churchill
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For far too long the world's poorest people have seen no benefit from the vast natural resources in their own…
— Nick Clegg
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Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets.
— Isabel Allende
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