Quote by Jonathan Kozol
Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are,

Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are, we are measuring them only by the standard of whether they will be future deficits or assets for our nations competitive needs. – 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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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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We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth. – Maurice Strong

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Future

True revolutionaries are like God – they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings. – Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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Future

Life is a series of collisions with the future it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be. – Jose Ortega y Gasset

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Future

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone elses hands, but not you. – Jim Rohn

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Future

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Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts. – Camille Paglia

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Dreams are where we visit the many lands and landscapes of human possibility and discover the one where we feel at home. The great religious leaders were all dreamers. – Jonathan Sacks

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There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness. – Liberty Hyde Bailey

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I dont think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person. – James Hillman

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Change