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My goal is to connect the young teachers to the old, to reignite their sense of struggle.
— Jonathan Kozol
No human being who wants to read and own a book should ever have to go on a bended knee to get it.
— Jonathan Kozol
Equity, after all, does not mean simply equal funding. Equal funding for unequal needs is not equality.
— Jonathan Kozol
Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools.
— Jonathan Kozol
A dream does not die on its own. A dream is vanquished by the choices ordinary people make about real things in their own lives ...
— Jonathan Kozol
The greatest difference between now and 1964, when I began teaching, is that public policy has pretty much eradicated the dream of Martin Luther King.
— Jonathan Kozol
Look for battles big enough to matter but, at the same time, small enough to win some realistic victories.
— Johnathan Kozol
I believe that the wilderness is where God is found.
— Jonathan Kozol
People who know but do not act do evil too. I don't know if I would call them evil but they're certainly not thinking about heaven.
— Jonathan Kozol
False hope is worse than despair.
— Jonathan Kozol
Young children give us glimpses of some things that are eternal.
— Jonathan Kozol
Childhood does not exist to serve the national economy. In a healthy nation, it should be the other way around.
— Jonathan Kozol
When they pray, what do they say to God?
— Jonathan Kozol
I have an enormous sense of having failed in life.
— Jonathan Kozol
I think a moment of critical energy has suddenly emerged. But moments like this come and go unless we seize them at their height.
— Jonathan Kozol
All of my education at Harvard, then Oxford, then Paris was in literature - even my thesis was on Shakespeare.
— Jonathan Kozol
President Obama still places far too much emphasis on relentless testing with standardized exams.
— Jonathan Kozol
In many of the high schools in the South Bronx, more children will end up in prison than will go to college.
— Jonathan Kozol
Discrimination is alive and soaring.
— Jonathan Kozol
Still, I think it grieves the heart of God when human beings created in His image treat other human beings like filthy rags.
— Jonathan Kozol
In schools with a history of chaos, the teacher who can keep the classroom calm becomes virtually indispensable.
— Jonathan Kozol
The answers I remember longest are the ones that answer questions that I didn't think of asking.
— Jonathan Kozol
I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education.
— Jonathan Kozol
When I was young, I was religious.
— Jonathan Kozol
I am a longtime, rabid fan of Jonathan Kozol.
— Sandra Tsing Loh
Segregation, he concluded, is neither sought nor imposed by healthy ... human beings.
— Jonathan Kozol
A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest.
— Jonathan Kozol
I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy.
— Jonathan Kozol
Children sometimes understand things that most grown-ups do not see.
— Jonathan Kozol
The 'niche' effect of charter schools guarantees a swift and vicious deepening of class and racial separation.
— Jonathan Kozol
It's sad that some people who have one exciting moment spend the rest of their lives rehashing it.
— Jonathan Kozol
It is our nation which is blind, and needs our prayers.
— Jonathan Kozol
I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.
— Jonathan Kozol
[Of] particular importance is the relationship between education and the political process.
— Jonathan Kozol
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
— Jonathan Kozol
We are now operating a school system in America that's more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther King.
— Jonathan Kozol
I hope to be remembered for writing books about social justice that also have enough aesthetic value to endure as works of literature.
— Jonathan Kozol
The cause of homelessness is lack of housing.
— Jonathan Kozol
I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Don't use the gibberish of the standards writers.
— Jonathan Kozol
Charity isn't a good substitute for justice.
— Jonathan Kozol