Quote by Jonathan Kozol
Many of those who argue for vouchers say that they simply want to

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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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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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

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Education
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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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At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people. – William John Wills

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A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue. – Phillip E. Johnson

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Few things are as essential as education. – Walter Annenberg

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Dont just stand there, make it happen. – Lee Iacocca

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