Jonathan Kozol Citas

• More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I mean, what is more precious to us than our own children? We are going to build a lot more prisons if we do not deal with the schools and their inequalities.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Education, Suicide, Children

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• I always want to tell these young idealists that the world is not as dangerous as many in the older generation want them to believe...The [people] for whom I feel the greatest sadness are the ones who choke on their beliefs, who never act on their ideals, who never know the state of struggle in a decent cause, and never know the thrill of even partial victories.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Struggle, Believe, Sadness

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• Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Inspiración, motivación, sabiduría

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• Hago hincapié en los profesores porque en gran medida se les deja fuera del debate. En ninguno de los informes grandilocuentes que llegan de Washington y de los grupos de reflexión para decirnos lo que hay que "arreglar" -odio esta palabra tan mecanicista, como si nuestras escuelas fueran motores de automóvil- se pregunta nunca la opinión de los profesores.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Education, Teacher, Hate

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• Good teachers don't approach a child of this age with overzealousness or with destructive conscientiousness. They're not drill-masters in the military or floor managers in a production system. They are specialists in opening small packages. They give the string a tug but do it carefully. They don't yet know what's in the box. They don't know if it's breakable.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Teacher, Children, Military

  Jonathan Kozol (2012). “Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope”, p.10, Crown

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• A lo largo de mi carrera se me ha criticado por confiar demasiado en la fiabilidad de los relatos de los niños, pero casi siempre he descubierto que los niños son mucho más fiables a la hora de contarnos lo que realmente ocurre en la escuela pública que muchos de los expertos adultos que elaboran las políticas que moldean sus destinos.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Children, School, Destiny

  Jonathan Kozol (2005). “The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America”, p.12, Broadway Books

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• Charity isn't a good substitute for justice.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Adversity, Humility, Justice

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• Separate and unequal didn't work 100 years ago. It will not work today.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Years, Today, Years Ago

  "Confronting the Inequality Juggernaut: A Q&A With Jonathan Kozol". Interview with Anthony Cody, blogs.edweek.org. July 18, 2011.

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• There is something deeply hypocritical in a society that holds an inner-city child only eight years old "accountable" for her performance on a high-stakes standardized exam but does not hold the high officials of our government accountable for robbing her of what they gave their own kids six or seven years before.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Children, Kids, Eight

  Jonathan Kozol (2005). “The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America”, p.53, Broadway Books

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• Like grain in a time of famine, the immense resources which the nation does in fact possess go not to the child in the greatest need but to the children of the highest bidder-the child of parents who, more frequently than not, have also enjoyed the same abundance when they were schoolchildren.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Dinero, Hijos, Padres

  Jonathan Kozol (2012). “Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools”, p.97, Broadway Books

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• Apartheid education, rarely mentioned in the press or openly confronted even among once-progressive educators, is alive and well and rapidly increasing now in the United States.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Alive, United States, Progressive

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• So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Games, Long, Victory

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• El primer objetivo y la principal función de la escuela pública estadounidense no es educar a buenas personas, sino a buenos ciudadanos. Es la función que llamamos -en las naciones enemigas- "adoctrinamiento estatal".

  Jonathan Kozol

  Escuela, Gente, Objetivo

  Jonathan Kozol (1990). “The Night Is Dark and I Am Far from Home”, Touchstone Books

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• Los que me dan pena son los que nunca se juegan el cuello por algo en lo que creen, nunca conocen el sabor de la lucha moral y nunca sienten la emoción de la victoria.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Struggle, Believe, Victory

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• Los niños a veces entienden cosas que la mayoría de los adultos no ven.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Children, Sometimes

  Jonathan Kozol (2012). “Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation”, p.126, Broadway Books

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

  Jonathan Kozol

  Teacher, Voice, Use

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• Wonderful teachers should never let themselves be drill sergeants for the state.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Teacher, Wonderful, Drill Sergeant

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• Even if you never do anything about this, you've benefited from an unjust system. You're already the winner in a game that was rigged to your advantage from the start.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Games, Unjust, Winner

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• I write books to change the world. Perhaps I can only change one little piece of that world. But if I can empower teachers and good citizens to give these children, who are the poorest of the poor, the same opportunity we give our own kids, then I'll feel my life has been worth it.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Profesor, Niños, Libro

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• Las escuelas hipersegregadas de los centros urbanos -en las que no hay más de cinco o diez niños blancos, como mucho, en una población estudiantil de hasta 3.000 alumnos- son la norma, no la excepción, en la mayoría de las zonas urbanas del norte hoy en día.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Niños, Escuela, Ciudades

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• La lucha política es lo más importante que cualquiera de nosotros puede hacer como ciudadano en una democracia; y eso significa que los mayores se unan a los jóvenes para luchar por tipos elementales de justicia.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Struggle, Mean, Fighting

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• Young children give us glimpses of some things that are eternal.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Children, Giving, Glimpse

  Jonathan Kozol (2007). “Letters to a Young Teacher”, p.45, Broadway Books

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• You have to remember. . .that for this little boy whom you have met, his life is just as important to him, as your life is to you. No matter how insufficient or how shabby it may seem to some, it is the only one he has.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Boys, Important, May

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• La falsa esperanza es peor que la desesperación.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Change, Despair, Human Nature

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• Pero lo que ahora se engloba en una sola palabra ("escuela") son dos tipos de instituciones muy diferentes que, en función, financiación e intención, desempeñan papeles totalmente distintos. Ambas son necesarias para el gobierno de nuestra nación. Pero a los niños de una serie de escuelas se les educa para ser gobernantes; a los niños de la otra serie de escuelas se les forma para ser gobernados. A los primeros se les da el rango imaginativo para movilizar ideas para el crecimiento económico; a los segundos se les proporciona la disciplina para hacer las estrechas tareas que el primer grupo prescribirá.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Niños, Escuela, Ideas

  Jonathan Kozol (2012). “Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools”, p.212, Broadway Books

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