#than

Hypersegregated inner-city schools - in which one finds no more than five or ten white children, at the very most, within a student population of as many as 3,000 - are the norm, not the exception, in most northern urban areas today. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#children #exception #finds #five #inner-city

I once made a check of all books in my fourth-grade classroom. Of the slightly more than six hundred books, almost one quarter had been published prior to the bombing of Hiroshima; 60 percent were either ten years old or older. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#been #bombing #books #check #classroom

President Obama's first term in office has been better for intentions than for actual changes in planning and policy. I do believe, and he has several things to this effect, that he would like to provide universal preschool or at least far more preschool for our children. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#been #believe #better #changes #children

The inequalities are greater now than in '92. Some states have equalized per-pupil spending but they set the 'equal level' very low, so that wealthy districts simply raise extra money privately. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#equal #extra #extra money #greater #inequalities

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

Is the cinema more important than life? ↗

— Francois Truffaut

#important #life #more #than

My own image of my work is that I no sooner settle into something than a break occurs. These breaks are always painful and depressing but despite them I see that there's a consistency that holds out, but is hard to define. ↗

— Lee Krasner

#break #breaks #consistency #define #depressing

I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of. ↗

— Dalton Trumbo

#class #considered #get #i #never

An impatient person plays differently than a more patient person. ↗

— Vladimir Kramnik

#impatient #more #patient #person #plays

I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times more creative than nonfiction. ↗

— Judith Krantz

#actually #because #before #creative #did