"Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance."
― Jonathan Kozol
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Education
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- "At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book to read. Well, if it was painful to read, it was also painful to write. I had pains in my chest for two years while I was writing that book."
- "We are now operating a school system in America that’s more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther King."
- "If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that you have been set apart and that there’s no will in this society to bring you back into the mainstream."
More In Education
- "At the end of the day it’s got to be a good movie, it’s got to be a funny movie, and it’s got to make people think, ‘Hey, I couldn’t have spent my time any better.’"― Tom Hanks
- "Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on."― Robert Frost
- "If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others."― Clay Aiken