Jonathan Kozol Quotes - Page 4

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• In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing job applications. Imagine what would happen if anyone tried to do that to children in a predominantly white suburban school.

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  Jobs, Children, Book

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• Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance.

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  Vengeance, Segregation, Public Education

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• I think a moment of critical energy has suddenly emerged. But moments like this come and go unless we seize them at their height.

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  Thinking, Height, Energy

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• Apartheid does not happen spontaneously, like bad weather conditions.

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  Weather, Doe, Apartheid

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• Let's concede that we have decided to let our children grow up in two separate nations, and lead two separate kinds of lives. If, on the other hand, we have the courage to rise to this challenge to name what's happening within our inner-city schools, then we also need the courage to be activist and go out and fight like hell to change it.

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  Growing Up, Children, School

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• 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.

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  Jobs, Taken, Believe

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• It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of Negro children each year.

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  Children, School, Years

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• When I was young, I was religious.

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  Religious, Young

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• Competitive skills are desperately needed by poor children in America, and realistic recognition of the economic roles that they may someday have an opportunity to fill is obviously important, too. But there is more to life, and there ought to be much more to childhood, than readiness for economic functions.

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  Children, Opportunity, Skills

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• 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.

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  Children, Order, Years

  Jonathan Kozol (2012). “Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope”, p.166, Crown

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• 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.

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  School, College, Ideas

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• In public schooling, social policy has been turned back almost one hundred years.

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  Teaching, Years, Social

  Jonathan Kozol (2012). “Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools”, p.5, Broadway Books

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