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Jonathan Kozol
Jonathan Kozol
American Writer
Born: Sep 5, 1936
Children People School Who Will You
Related authors: Dale Carnegie Denis Waitley Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Ray Bradbury W. E. B. Du Bois William Arthur Ward
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
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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. Jonathan Kozol
Book Writing School Job First Reading White Would Tried About Write Ads First Grade Read Learned Were Grade Taught Children Want Anyone Happen Suburban Who Applications Imagine
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
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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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It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of Negro children each year. Jonathan Kozol
School Year Say Systems Percentage Higher Contain America Children Urban Commonplace Each Now Each Year
Consider what it is like to go into a new classroom and to see before you suddenly, and in a way you cannot avoid recognizing, the dreadful consequences of a year's wastage of so many lives. Jonathan Kozol
You Year Before Consequences Consider Way Recognizing Dreadful See Classroom New Like Go Cannot Avoid Many Suddenly Lives
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
Culture Guilt Clever Assumed Way Neurotic Remarkably Protecting Self-Interest Automatically Which Unhealthy
At present, black children are more segregated in their public schools than at any time since 1968. In the inner-city schools I visit, minority children typically represent 95 percent to 99 percent of class enrollment. Jonathan Kozol
Time Class Black Minority Public Schools Enrollment Visit Percent More Segregated Since Schools Than Any Represent Children Public Present
Congress has an opportunity to take advantage of the opening created by Justice Kennedy later this year when it reauthorizes the federal No Child Left Behind Act. Jonathan Kozol
Justice Opportunity Take Advantage Year Congress Later Federal Take Advantage Opening Left Child Behind Created Act Kennedy
Governor Romney has said nothing about preschool. I think that giving the poorest kids in America wonderful preschool, and three years of it, starting when they are two-and-a-half, is absolutely crucial. Jonathan Kozol
Wonderful Three Giving Nothing Think Kids About Absolutely Crucial Said Years Governor Governor Romney America Romney Poorest Preschool Starting
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. Jonathan Kozol
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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
Needs Hate Debate Word Think Our Out Telling Emphasize Come Schools Because None Opinions Tanks Were Left Fixed Reports Automobile Ask Us Teachers Engines Washington Largely Ever
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
Innovation People Progress School Few Field Our Has-Been Bad Area Outside Most Talk Understand How Still Materials Been Textbook Revision Few People Curriculum Much Teaching Elementary Elementary School Recent
But when I went to Harvard, it kind of got washed out of me, partly because people made fun of you in college. If you said you believed in God, they would look at you clinically, you know, suggest that you needed a referral. Jonathan Kozol
God Me You People Made College Harvard Out Kind Would Know Look Partly Because Said Got Fun Washed Believed Suggest Needed
The 'niche' effect of charter schools guarantees a swift and vicious deepening of class and racial separation. Jonathan Kozol
Class Separation Charter Charter Schools Schools Effect Vicious Racial Swift Niche Deepening Guarantees
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
Hope Justice Writing Value Enough Books About Remembered Also Aesthetic Endure Literature Social Social Justice Works
I tell young teachers who are determined to dissent from some of the Draconian aspects of the current orthodoxy that the best form of protection is to be incredibly good at what you do and keep good discipline in class. Jonathan Kozol
Best Good You Class Protection Discipline Young Dissent Incredibly Tell Some Determined Current Form Aspects Teachers Who Keep Draconian Orthodoxy
It's sad that some people who have one exciting moment spend the rest of their lives rehashing it. Jonathan Kozol
Sad People Rest Some People Spend Some Exciting Moment Who Lives
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
Man Business School Richard Nixon Nixon More Could Never Like Him Which Public Elect Richard Produce Public School Even Population
Businessmen are not in business to lose customers, and schools do not exist to free their clients from the agencies of mass persuasion. School and media possess a productive monopoly upon the imagination of a child. Jonathan Kozol
Business School Free Lose Imagination Monopoly Possess Mass Schools Clients Exist Child Customers Agencies Persuasion Productive Businessmen Media
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
Life Opportunity Important Realistic Too Desperately Ought Recognition Someday More Economic Obviously Readiness Than America Roles May Childhood Children Poor Much Skills Fill Functions Competitive Needed
'Amazing Grace' is not a book of interviews or onetime snapshots. It's a memoir of a journey that took me into a place I had never been and took over two years of my life. I don't think the people in this book would have said the things to me that they did if they perceived me as a reporter. Jonathan Kozol
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The last thing the theatre owners wanted was for people who spent $200 to see 'Les Miserables' to come out again and see the real miserable children of America, right there on the sidewalk. Jonathan Kozol
Theatre People Miserable Sidewalk Spent Out See Come Real America Owners Children Wanted Again Les Les Miserables Who Right Thing Last
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