Jonathan Kozol quotes - page 3

When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive, Malcolm X was alive; great, great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement. (Jonathan Kozol)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy. View quote
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I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure. View quote
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