{"author":"Jonathan Kozol","author_id":"Jonathan+Kozol","total_quotes":20,"quotes":[{"text":"Placing the burden on the individual to break down doors in finding better education for a child is attractive to conservatives because it reaffirms their faith in individual ambition and autonomy. But to ask an individual to break down doors that we have chained and bolted in advance of his arrival is unfair.","author":"Jonathan Kozol","tags":["pedagogy","race"],"id":3863,"author_id":"Jonathan+Kozol"},{"text":"I urge you to be teachers so that you can join with children as the co-collaborators in a plot to build a little place of ecstasy and poetry and gentle joy.","author":"Jonathan Kozol","tags":["children","early-childhood","education","teachers"],"id":6024,"author_id":"Jonathan+Kozol"},{"text":"So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage.","author":"Jonathan Kozol","tags":["game","live","long "],"id":32853,"author_id":"Jonathan+Kozol"},{"text":"The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower than the city averages, and spending levels in the wealthiest suburban areas are daunting challenges to any hope New Yorkers might retain that even semblances of fairness still prevail.","author":"Jonathan Kozol","tags":["hope","today","child "],"id":80901,"author_id":"Jonathan+Kozol"},{"text":"I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy.","author":"Jonathan Kozol","tags":["charity","people","accept "],"id":103827,"author_id":"Jonathan+Kozol"},{"text":"In schools with a history of chaos, the teacher who can keep the classroom calm becomes virtually indispensable.","author":"Jonathan Kozol","tags":["history","calm","chaos "],"id":156621,"author_id":"Jonathan+Kozol"},{"text":"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.","author":"Jonathan Kozol","tags":["success","school "],"id":179073,"author_id":"Jonathan+Kozol"},{"text":"I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.","author":"Jonathan Kozol","tags":["end","done","feel "],"id":191826,"author_id":"Jonathan+Kozol"},{"text":"It's sad that some people who have one exciting moment spend the rest of their lives rehashing it.","author":"Jonathan Kozol","tags":["moment","people","rest "],"id":209683,"author_id":"Jonathan+Kozol"},{"text":"Businessmen are not in business to lose customers, and schools do not exist to free their clients from the agencies of mass persuasion. School and media possess a productive monopoly upon the imagination of a child.","author":"Jonathan Kozol","tags":["business","school","child "],"id":237477,"author_id":"Jonathan+Kozol"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":20,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}