Quote by Jonathan Kozol
But for the children of the poorest people were stripping the curr

But for the children of the poorest people were stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. Were not valuing a child for the time in which she actually is a child. – Jonathan Kozol

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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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By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there. – Jonathan Kozol

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Failure
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At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book to read. Well, if it was painful to read, it was also painful to write. I had pains in my chest for two years while I was writing that book. – Jonathan Kozol

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I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. Its a large, very large garden, seen? – Peter Tosh

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Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. Its not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. Its about the fact that I really do enjoy it. – Ville Valo

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Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others. – Brian Eno

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Music

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings. – Robert Benchley

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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny. – Socrates

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I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of cultural lamination that the USA is perpetrating on the planet. – Jose Saramago

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