Charity isn't a good substitute for justice.

- Jonathan Kozol

Separate and unequal didn't work 100 years ago. It will not work today.

- Jonathan Kozol

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

- Jonathan Kozol

Good teachers don't approach a child of this age with overzealousness or with destructive conscientiousness. They're not drill-masters in the militar…

- Jonathan Kozol

Children sometimes understand things that most grown-ups do not see.

- Jonathan Kozol

Childhood is not merely basic training for utilitarian adulthood. It should have some claims upon our mercy, not for its future value to the economic…

- Jonathan Kozol

Apartheid education, rarely mentioned in the press or openly confronted even among once-progressive educators, is alive and well and rapidly increasi…

- Jonathan Kozol

There is something deeply hypocritical in a society that holds an inner-city child only eight years old "accountable" for her performance on a high-s…

- Jonathan Kozol

More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I mean, what is more precious to u…

- Jonathan Kozol