"We are now operating a school system in America that’s more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther King."
― Jonathan Kozol
Topic(s):
Death
More From Jonathan Kozol
- "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."
- "By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there."
- "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 Death
- "Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death."― George Whitefield
- "In the event of the death of a current or former President, like the recent death of President Ronald Reagan, the flag should be flown at half-staff for thirty days from the day of the death."― Michael K. Simpson
- "A useless life is an early death."― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe