Jonathan Kozol Quotes

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.

Jonathan Kozol

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 5, 1936

Topics

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Dick Gregory was a great comedian who went and got arrested, did hunger strikes, protests. It never hurt his career to be outspoken.

Joe Rogan

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Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.

Robert Morgan

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Are you playing for your teammates and coaches? That's how it should be.

Jeff Van Gundy

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Poirot is a classic character from fiction, not a MacBook Air; he would not benefit from updates.

Sophie Hannah

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Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.

Sophocles

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If theatre paid as well as movies and TV, I'd do it all the time.

Tom Irwin

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I hate hospitals. Even if it's a joyful occasion when a friend gave birth. It's like, 'Oh, look at the beautiful baby.... and all the disease on the walls...'

Rob Huebel

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There's a certain logic to systems, and that logic is fairly self-evident. It's very straightforward, usually. It might take a little research, it might take a little bit of industry to prize it out, but it's there to be seen.

Michael Nesmith

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When dad told me Mr Steptoe had passed away, I broke down.

Louise Brown

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So seven new countries, three of them formerly part of the Soviet Union, and the others part of the Warsaw Pact, will become full members of NATO next year.

Lord Robertson

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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Jonathan Swift

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We need to ask ourselves what are we here for and what have we worked so hard to be here for.

Jonny Wilkinson

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