Quotes by Jonathan Kozol

The ones I pity are the ones who never stick out their neck for something...

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The greatest difference between now and 1964, when I began teaching, is that public policy...

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So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive...

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Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.

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Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools.

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Many of those who argue for vouchers say that they simply want to use competition...

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Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are, we are measuring them...

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In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read...

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If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or...

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If we allow public funds to be used to support our relatively benign, morally grounded...

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I'd love to go back and teach primary school. I used to teach fourth grade...

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I think a lot of people don't have any idea of how deeply segregated our...

#Jonathan Kozol