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So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are

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

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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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Learning
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Many of those who argue for vouchers say that they simply want to use competition to improve public education. I dont think it works that way, and Ive been watching this for a longtime. – Jonathan Kozol

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Education
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When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive, Malcolm X was alive great, great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement. – Jonathan Kozol

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Its clear that people are going to download media files, and theyre going to talk to each other, and theyre going to exchange information and knowledge and so forth. So this system logic is basically what you bounce off of. – Michael Nesmith

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How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when theres no help in the truth. – Sophocles

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And most importantly perhaps, children can learn about their rights, share their knowledge with the children of other nations, identify problems with them and establish how they might work together to address them. – Carol Bellamy

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other. – Mary Richards

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