Top 92 Quotes by Jonathan Kozol

About Jonathan Kozol

These are some quotes by American author Jonathan Kozol Writer, who was born on September 5, 1936.

Public school was never in business to produce Thoreau. It is in business to produce a man like Richard Nixon and, even more, a population like the one which could elect him.

Public school was never in business to produce Thoreau. It is in business to produce a man like Richard Nixon and, even more, a population like the one which could elect him.

Jonathan Kozol

If we allow public funds to be used to support our relatively benign, morally grounded schools, we will have to allow those public funds to be used for any type of private school.

If we allow public funds to be used to support our relatively benign, morally grounded schools, we will have to allow those public funds to be used for any type of private school.

Jonathan Kozol

Separate and unequal didn't work 100 years ago. It will not work today.

Separate and unequal didn't work 100 years ago. It will not work today.

Jonathan Kozol

I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.

I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.

Jonathan Kozol

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

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

Jonathan Kozol

I wrote the first book, and I thought people would say: 'Separate and unequal schools in the City of Boston? I didn't know that. Let's go out and fix it.'

I wrote the first book, and I thought people would say: 'Separate and unequal schools in the City of Boston? I didn't know that. Let's go out and fix it.'

Jonathan Kozol

Wonderful teachers should never let themselves be drill sergeants for the state.

Wonderful teachers should never let themselves be drill sergeants for the state.

Jonathan Kozol

'Savage Inequalities' was about school finance, and 'Amazing Grace' primarily dealt with medical and social injustices in New York. But with 'Ordinary Resurrections,' I had no predetermined agenda. When I met with the children, I was not in pursuit of any line of thinking. In our conversations, I let them lead me where they wanted to go.

Jonathan Kozol

Children are not simply commodities to be herded into line and trained for the jobs that white people who live in segregated neighborhoods have available.

Children are not simply commodities to be herded into line and trained for the jobs that white people who live in segregated neighborhoods have available.

Jonathan Kozol

As a matter of record, New York City spends a higher portion of its budget on instruction and associated costs within the schools themselves than any of the other 100 largest districts in the nation.

As a matter of record, New York City spends a higher portion of its budget on instruction and associated costs within the schools themselves than any of the other 100 largest districts in the nation.

Jonathan Kozol

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