The ones I pity are the ones who never stick out their neck for something they believe, never know the taste of moral struggle, and never have the thrill of victory.
Separate and unequal didn't work 100 years ago. It will not work today. - Jonathan Kozol
Separate and unequal didn't work 100 years ago. It will not work today.
- Jonathan Kozol
Charity isn't a good substitute for justice. - Jonathan Kozol
Charity isn't a good substitute for justice.
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. - Jonathan Kozol
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
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
Good teachers don't approach a child of this age with overzealousness or with destructive conscientiousness. They're not drill-masters in the militar…
Children sometimes understand things that most grown-ups do not see. - Jonathan Kozol
Children sometimes understand things that most grown-ups do not see.
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
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…
Apartheid education, rarely mentioned in the press or openly confronted even among once-progressive educators, is alive and well and rapidly increasi… - Jonathan Kozol
Apartheid education, rarely mentioned in the press or openly confronted even among once-progressive educators, is alive and well and rapidly increasi…
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
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…
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
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…
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