Jonathan Kozol Art Quotations

Governor Romney has said nothing about preschool. I think that giving the poorest kids in America wonderful preschool, and three years of it, starting when they are two-and-a-half, is absolutely crucial.

The 'niche' effect of charter schools guarantees a swift and vicious deepening of class and racial separation.

The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America

Our nation's oldest sin and deepest crime is the isolation of minority children - black children, in particular - in schools that are not only segregated but shamefully unequal.

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.

Apartheid does not happen spontaneously, like bad weather conditions.