Quote by Jonathan Kozol
No Child Left Behinds fourth-grade gains arent learning gains, the

No Child Left Behinds fourth-grade gains arent learning gains, theyre testing gains. Thats why they dont last. The law is a distraction from things that really count. – Jonathan Kozol

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If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that you have been set apart and that theres no will in this society to bring you back into the mainstream. – Jonathan Kozol

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Society
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We are now operating a school system in America thats more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther King. – Jonathan Kozol

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Death
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I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education. – Jonathan Kozol

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Education
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These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness. – Anthony de Mello

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Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could. – Lord Mountbatten

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Belief gets in the way of learning. – Jeremy Collier

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Learning

Advise for anybody – enjoy what you are doing, enjoy the process of learning and dont be impatient. – Robin Cousins

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Jealousy hyphenates love in all the wrong places. – Terri Guillemets

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The crow in his purity I believe is seen and heard only in the North. Before you reach the Potomac there is an infusion of a weaker element, the fish-crow, whose helpless feminine call contrasts strongly with the hearty masculine caw of the original Simon. – John Burroughs, “Winter Sunshine”

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Law of the Workshop: Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner. – Author Unknown

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