"Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance." ― Jonathan Kozol Topic(s): Education More From Jonathan Kozol "Many of those who argue for vouchers say that they simply want to use competition to improve public education. I don’t think it works that way, and I’ve been watching this for a longtime." "We are now operating a school system in America that’s more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther King." "But for the children of the poorest people we’re stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. We’re not valuing a child for the time in which she actually is a child." More In Education "Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes."― Kjell Magne Bondevik "Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it."― Jean-Jacques Rousseau "If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers – if that’s where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets."― Maynard James Keenan