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Jonathan Kozol Quotes

American - Writer | September 5, 1936 -

Apartheid does not happen spontaneously, like bad weather conditions.

Weather Bad Happen Bad Weather Like

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.

Today Children White Student More

Wonderful teachers should never let themselves be drill sergeants for the state.

Teachers Never Wonderful State Drill

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.

Live Knowledge Game Long Expensive

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.

Education Child Believe America Will

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

White Than Pupil Receive Less Per

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.

Today Hope Teacher New York Child

The cause of homelessness is lack of housing.

Housing Cause Homelessness Lack

Businessmen are not in business to lose customers, and schools do not exist to free their clients from the agencies of mass persuasion. School and media possess a productive monopoly upon the imagination of a child.

Business Imagination School Child

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

Win Small Enough Matter Battles Big

I think a lot of people don't have any idea of how deeply segregated our schools have become all over again. Most textbooks are not honest in what they teach our high school students.

School People High School Think High

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.

Opportunity Justice Child Year Act

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