Quote by Jonathan Kozol
When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal

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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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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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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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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Freedom
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We should favor innovation and freedom over regulation. – George Allen

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Freedom

The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion. – Billy Graham

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Freedom

The enemies of freedom will not prevail. – Bill Frist

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Freedom

True freedom is where an individuals thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor – no matter the personal price. – Bryant H. McGill

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Freedom

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Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone. – Thomas de Quincey

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alone

When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment. – Warren Farrell

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Fear

It happens as one sees in cages: the birds who are outside despair of ever getting in, and those within are equally desirous of getting out – Michel de Montaigne

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Duality

I really appreciate family. I really cant imagine life without them! – Ice Cube

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Family