#use

When I play, I feel like I'm in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis-player? ↗

— Anna Kournikova

#feel #i #i feel #i feel like #like

Television: A medium. So called because it's neither rare nor well done. ↗

— Ernie Kovacs

#called #done #medium #neither #nor

Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination. ↗

— Sofia Kovalevskaya

#amount #any #arid #arithmetic #confuse

But when I went to Harvard, it kind of got washed out of me, partly because people made fun of you in college. If you said you believed in God, they would look at you clinically, you know, suggest that you needed a referral. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#believed #college #fun #god #got

I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#education #funds #i #i am #opposed

I emphasize teachers because they are largely left out of the debate. None of the bombastic reports that come from Washington and think tanks telling us what needs to be 'fixed' - I hate such a mechanistic word, as if our schools were automobile engines - ever asks the opinions of teachers. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#automobile #because #come #debate #emphasize

I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Don't use the gibberish of the standards writers. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#i #own #speak #standards #teachers

I'd love to go back and teach primary school. I used to teach fourth grade and fifth grade. I'd love to spend several years teaching kindergarten or maybe third grade. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#fifth #fourth #go #grade #i

If we allow public funds to be used to support our relatively benign, morally grounded schools, we will have to allow those public funds to be used for any type of private school. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#any #benign #funds #grounded #morally

Many of those who argue for vouchers say that they simply want to use competition to improve public education. I don't think it works that way, and I've been watching this for a longtime. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#been #competition #education #i #improve