Jonathan Kozol
Jonathan Kozol
Jonathan Kozolis an American writer, educator, and activist. best known for his books on public education in the United States...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth5 September 1936
CountryUnited States of America
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clever self guilt
A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest.
weather doe apartheid
Apartheid does not happen spontaneously, like bad weather conditions.
needs poor massive
You need massive recruitment to tell the poorest of the poor what is possible.
games long victory
So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage.
vengeance segregation public-education
Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance.
education people world
If you could lead through testing, the U.S. would lead the world in all education categories. When are people going to understand you don't fatten your lambs by weighing them?
christmas people charity
I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy.
adversity justice charity
Charity isn't a good substitute for justice.
america death luther martin operating school segregated since system time
We are now operating a school system in America that's more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther King.
committed fact familiar greater impunity less might surely
The fact that a crime might have been committed with impunity in the past may make it seem more familiar and less gruesome, but surely does not give it any greater legitimacy.