#her

A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos. Little in my experience supports this, yet the phrase has been repeated endlessly, and the blame in almost all cases is placed somewhere outside the classroom. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#almost #been #blame #cases #children

As a matter of record, New York City spends a higher portion of its budget on instruction and associated costs within the schools themselves than any of the other 100 largest districts in the nation. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#associated #budget #city #costs #districts

The first ten, twelve or fifteen years of life are excavated of inherent moral worth in order to accommodate a regimen of basic training for the adult years that many of the poorest children may not even live to know. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#adult #basic #children #even #fifteen

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

#any #death #king #luther #martin

Well, teachers have been profoundly demoralized in recent years and are often treated with contempt by politicians. There's a great deal of reckless rhetoric in Washington about the mediocrity of the teaching profession - and I don't find that to be true at all. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#be true #been #contempt #deal #demoralized

When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive, Malcolm X was alive; great, great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#alive #boston #deal #emerging #freedom

I must therefore implore your indulgence for a pretty long and plain development of my views concerning that cause which the citizens of New York, and you particularly, gentlemen, honour with generous interest. ↗

— Lajos Kossuth

#citizens #concerning #development #generous #gentlemen

I'm afraid that I'm either going to have to write myself something or direct something if I'm going to get somewhere. ↗

— Yaphet Kotto

#direct #either #get #going #i

I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it. ↗

— Sandy Koufax

#became #good #hit #i #make

The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#enjoyment #fade #habit #lasts #only