- Children
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Jonathan Kozol Quotes
Most Famous Jonathan Kozol Quotes of All Time!
We have created a collection of some of the best jonathan-kozol quotes so you can read and share anytime with your friends and family. Share our Top 10 Jonathan Kozol Quotes on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Future
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Education
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Many of those who argue for vouchers say that they simply want to use competition to improve public education. I don't think it works that way, and I've been watching this for a longtime.
- Nov 07, 2020
Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools.
- Educations
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage.
- Dream
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest difference between now and 1964, when I began teaching, is that public policy has pretty much eradicated the dream of Martin Luther King.
- Never
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The primary victims of Katrina, those who were given the least help by the government, those rescued last or not at all, were overwhelmingly people of color largely hidden from the mainstream of society.
- People
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you to believe. Anyone I know who has ever taken a risk and lost a job has ended up getting a better one two years later.
- Great
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive, Malcolm X was alive; great, great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement.
- Money
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The inequalities are greater now than in '92. Some states have equalized per-pupil spending but they set the 'equal level' very low, so that wealthy districts simply raise extra money privately.
- Go
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I think a moment of critical energy has suddenly emerged. But moments like this come and go unless we seize them at their height.
- People
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
People rarely speak of children; you hear of 'cohort groups' and 'standard variations,' but you don't hear much of boys who miss their cats or 6-year-olds who have to struggle with potato balls.
- Life
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The first ten, twelve or fifteen years of life are excavated of inherent moral worth in order to accommodate a regimen of basic training for the adult years that many of the poorest children may not even live to know.
- Matter
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
As a matter of record, New York City spends a higher portion of its budget on instruction and associated costs within the schools themselves than any of the other 100 largest districts in the nation.
- Hope
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower than the city averages, and spending levels in the wealthiest suburban areas are daunting challenges to any hope New Yorkers might retain that even semblances of fairness still prevail.
- Education
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Apartheid education, rarely mentioned in the press or openly confronted even among once-progressive educators, is alive and well and rapidly increasing now in the United States.
- More
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Hypersegregated inner-city schools - in which one finds no more than five or ten white children, at the very most, within a student population of as many as 3,000 - are the norm, not the exception, in most northern urban areas today.
- Children
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of Negro children each year.
- Children
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos. Little in my experience supports this, yet the phrase has been repeated endlessly, and the blame in almost all cases is placed somewhere outside the classroom.
- New
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Consider what it is like to go into a new classroom and to see before you suddenly, and in a way you cannot avoid recognizing, the dreadful consequences of a year's wastage of so many lives.
- City
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote the first book, and I thought people would say: 'Separate and unequal schools in the City of Boston? I didn't know that. Let's go out and fix it.'
- Done
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Now, I don't expect what I write to change things. I think I write now simply as a witness. This is how it is. This is what we have done. This is what we have permitted.
- Clever
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest.
- Children
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
At present, black children are more segregated in their public schools than at any time since 1968. In the inner-city schools I visit, minority children typically represent 95 percent to 99 percent of class enrollment.
- Congress
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Congress has an opportunity to take advantage of the opening created by Justice Kennedy later this year when it reauthorizes the federal No Child Left Behind Act.
- Child
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
No Child Left Behind widens the gap between the races more than any piece of educational legislation I've seen in 40 years. It denies inner-city kids the critical-thinking skills to interrogate reality.
- Child
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
No Child Left Behind's fourth-grade gains aren't learning gains, they're testing gains. That's why they don't last. The law is a distraction from things that really count.
- Children
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Our nation's oldest sin and deepest crime is the isolation of minority children - black children, in particular - in schools that are not only segregated but shamefully unequal.
- Nov 07, 2020
I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Don't use the gibberish of the standards writers.
- President
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
President Obama still places far too much emphasis on relentless testing with standardized exams.
- Nothing
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Governor Romney has said nothing about preschool. I think that giving the poorest kids in America wonderful preschool, and three years of it, starting when they are two-and-a-half, is absolutely crucial.
- Better
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
President Obama's first term in office has been better for intentions than for actual changes in planning and policy. I do believe, and he has several things to this effect, that he would like to provide universal preschool or at least far more preschool for our children.
- Great
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Well, teachers have been profoundly demoralized in recent years and are often treated with contempt by politicians. There's a great deal of reckless rhetoric in Washington about the mediocrity of the teaching profession - and I don't find that to be true at all.
- Emphasize
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I emphasize teachers because they are largely left out of the debate. None of the bombastic reports that come from Washington and think tanks telling us what needs to be 'fixed' - I hate such a mechanistic word, as if our schools were automobile engines - ever asks the opinions of teachers.
- Failure
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.
- King
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
We are now operating a school system in America that's more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther King.
- Believe
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education.
- Homelessness
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The cause of homelessness is lack of housing.
- People
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
An awful lot of people come to college with this strange idea that there's no longer segregation in America's schools, that our schools are basically equal; neither of these things is true.
- Me
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book to read. Well, if it was painful to read, it was also painful to write. I had pains in my chest for two years while I was writing that book.
- Music
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. We're not valuing a child for the time in which she actually is a child.
- Live
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Children are not simply commodities to be herded into line and trained for the jobs that white people who live in segregated neighborhoods have available.
- Black
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed.
- Never
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Even if you never do anything about this, you've benefited from an unjust system. You're already the winner in a game that was rigged to your advantage from the start.
- People
- |
- Nov 07, 2020