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Jonathan Kozol Quotes

American - Writer | September 5, 1936 -

The 'niche' effect of charter schools guarantees a swift and vicious deepening of class and racial separation.

Separation Class Racial Niche Effect

The fact that a crime might have been committed with impunity in the past may make it seem more familiar and less gruesome, but surely does not give it any greater legitimacy.

Past Crime More Seem May Give

I have an enormous sense of having failed in life.

Life Sense Failed Having Enormous

I hope to be remembered for writing books about social justice that also have enough aesthetic value to endure as works of literature.

Hope Justice Value Writing Aesthetic

I don't know if anything I write will endure, but I do try to write it as a narrative that will not only challenge but also entice the reader into the lives of children.

Children Challenge Know Will Try

All of my education at Harvard, then Oxford, then Paris was in literature - even my thesis was on Shakespeare.

Education Literature Paris Harvard

I tell young teachers who are determined to dissent from some of the Draconian aspects of the current orthodoxy that the best form of protection is to be incredibly good at what you do and keep good discipline in class.

Good Discipline Best You Young Tell

In schools with a history of chaos, the teacher who can keep the classroom calm becomes virtually indispensable.

Teacher History Chaos Calm Classroom

Our political establishment refuses to use the word 'segregated.' They call the schools diverse, which means half black, half Hispanic, and maybe two white kids and three Asians. 'Diverse' has become a synonym for 'segregated.'

Black Political White Three Become

Discrimination is alive and soaring.

Discrimination Alive Soaring

So long as the most vulnerable people in our population are consigned to places that the rest of us will always shun and flee and view with fear, I am afraid that educational denial, medical and economic devastation, and aesthetic degradation will be inevitable.

Fear Medical I Am People Rest View

It's sad that some people who have one exciting moment spend the rest of their lives rehashing it.

Sad Moment People Rest Some People

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