Jonathan Kozol Quotes - Page 4

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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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• 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.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Children, Opportunity, Skills

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• When I was young, I was religious.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Religious, Young

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• I went to Washington to challenge the soft bigotry of low expectations

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  Expectations, Challenges, Lows

  Jonathan Kozol (2005). “The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America”, p.284, Broadway Books

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• Unlike these powerful grown-ups, children have no ideologies to reinforce, no superstructure of political opinion to promote, no civic equanimity or image to defend, no personal reputation to secure.

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  Children, Powerful, Political Opinions

  Jonathan Kozol (2005). “The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America”, p.12, Broadway Books

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• 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.

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  Teacher, Teaching, Years

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• If there are amazing graces on this earth, I believe that they are these good children sent to us by God and not yet soiled by the knowledge that their nation does not love them.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Children, Believe, Grace

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• On Mondays and Fridays in early May, nearly 18,000 children-the equivalent of all the elementary students in suburban Glencoe, Wilmette, Glenview, Kenilworth, Winnetka, Deerfield, Highland Park and Evanston-are assigned to classes with no teacher.

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  Friday, Teacher, Monday

  Jonathan Kozol (2012). “Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools”, p.65, Broadway Books

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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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• East St. Louis-which the local press refers to as "an inner city without an outer city"-has some of the sickest children in America. Of 66 cities in Illinois, East St. Louis ranks first in fetal death, first in premature birth, and third in infant health.

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  Children, Illinois, Cities

  Jonathan Kozol (2012). “Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools”, p.25, Broadway Books

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• I'd love to go back and teach primary school. I used to teach fourth grade and fifth grade. I'd love to spend several years teaching kindergarten or maybe third grade.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Teaching, School, Years

  The Education World Interview, www.educationworld.com.

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• There has been so much recent talk of progress in the areas of curriculum innovation and textbook revision that few people outside the field of teaching understand how bad most of our elementary school materials still are.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Teaching, School, People

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