Quote by Jonathan Kozol
By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any

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

Other quotes by Jonathan Kozol

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

Category:
amazing
Read Quote

The primary victims of Katrina, those who were given the least help by the government, those rescued last or not at all, were overwhelmingly people of color largely hidden from the mainstream of society. – Jonathan Kozol

Category:
Government
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Failure
category

Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed. – Theodor Herzl

Category:
Failure

I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure. – Jean Kerr

Category:
Failure

Success and failure are equally disastrous. – Tennessee Williams

Category:
Failure

A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War. – Charles Inglis

Category:
Failure

Random Quotes

Doing the right thing has power. – Laura Linney

Category:
power

Again, the American people expect us to do what they are doing. Its tightening the belt, its learning how to do more with less. Thats a reality today, and weve got to do that in order to get the private sector growing. – Eric Cantor

Category:
Learning

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband! – Shana Alexander

Category:
Marriage

The effects of human wickedness are written on the page of history in characters of blood: but the impression soon fades away; so more blood must be shed to renew it. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

Category:
History