Best quotes by Jonathan Kozol on Children
Checkout quotes by Jonathan Kozol on Children
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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
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‟ Hypersegregated inner-city schools - in which one finds no more than five or ten white children, at the very most, within a student population of as many as 3,000 - are the norm, not the exception, in most northern urban areas today.
- Jonathan Kozol
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‟ 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.
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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.
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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.
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‟ 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
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‟ President Obama's first term in office has been better for intentions than for actual changes in planning and policy. I do believe, and he has several things to this effect, that he would like to provide universal preschool or at least far more preschool for our children.
- Jonathan Kozol