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

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We are now operating a school system in America thats more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther King. – Jonathan Kozol

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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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I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. Its blasphemy. – Jonathan Kozol

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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure. – Edsger Dijkstra

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Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success. – Michael Crawford

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It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5.15 per hour. Since that last increase, Congresss failure to adjust the wage for inflation has reduced the purchasing power of the minimum wage to record low levels. – Jon Corzine

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