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"13 Jonathan Kozol Quotes & Sayings

      American     /     View profile
Born: 5 September 1936 | Writer | Activist | Educator |

Young children give us glimpses of some things that are eternal.

Children Glimpses Eternal
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Children sometimes understand things that most grown-ups do not see.

Children Understand Grown-ups
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Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win

Battles Big Matter Win
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I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Don't use the gibberish of the standards writers.

Teachers Speak Voices Writers
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Of particular importance is the relationship between education and the political process.

Importance Relationship Education Political
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A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest.

Culture Guilt Unhealty Self-interest
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Discrimination is alive and soaring.

Discrimination Alive Soaring
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No human being who wants to read and own a book should ever have to go on a bended knee to get it.

Human being Read Own Book
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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...

Dream Die Choices People
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It is our nation which is blind, and needs our prayers.

Nation Blind Needs Prayers
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Equity, after all, does not mean simply equal funding. Equal funding for unequal needs is not equality.

Equality Funding Needs
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Charity isn't a good substitute for justice.

Charity Substitute Justice
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False hope is worse than despair.

False hope Worse Despair
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Jonathan Kozol Quotes & Sayings