Quote by Jonathan Kozol
I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed chari

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

Other quotes by Jonathan Kozol

During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed. – Jonathan Kozol

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Education
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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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Knowledge
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But for the children of the poorest people were stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. Were not valuing a child for the time in which she actually is a child. – Jonathan Kozol

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Music
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Other Quotes from
Christmas
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I love giving gifts and I love receiving them. I really like giving little kids extravagant gifts. You see their little faces light up and they get excited. If its a really good gift, I love receiving it, like jewels, small islands. – Gina Gershon

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Christmas

Ive been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion. – Jack Bowman

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Christmas

My favorite toy growing up was Polly Pocket. But one gift that I wanted though never received for Christmas was a pair of trampoline moon shoes. You strap them to your feet and they have springs on them, and you can just jump around! – Lucy Hale

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Christmas

I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead. – Clarence Clemons

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Christmas

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