Jonathan Kozol (born September 5, 1936) is a American writer, educator, and activist. best known for his books on public education in the United States. Read full biography of Jonathan Kozol →
The greatest difference between now and 1964, when I began teaching, is that public policy has pretty much eradicated the dream of Martin Luther King.
Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools.
All of my education at Harvard, then Oxford, then Paris was in literature - even my thesis was on Shakespeare.
No human being who wants to read and own a book should ever have to go on a bended knee to get it.
We are now operating a school system in America that's more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther King.
When I was young, I was religious.
I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education.
I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy.
I have an enormous sense of having failed in life.
I hope to be remembered for writing books about social justice that also have enough aesthetic value to endure as works of literature.
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... →
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... →
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... →
Jonathan Kozol (born September 5, 1936) is a American writer, educator, and activist. best known for his books on public education in the United States.