Jonathan Kozol Quotes
Even if you never do anything about this, you've benefited from an unjust system. You're already the winner in a game that was rigged to your advantage from the start.
Kozol, Jonathan. Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools. Crown Publishers, 1991.
This was one of his great fundamental questions of mankind which his research began to answer.
The cause of the inequality make a great difference in the role that society and community should play if it is desirable to reduce the inequality. If Muller is right, and more and more thinkers are tending to agree, then the solution lies in increased education and training as opposed to job development, anti-discrimination enforcement, and industrial development. See {634994} where Muller asserts the premise.
The term “rugged individualism” was used at the time be very conservatives and the very wealthy to describe business leladers with words that had very good public connotations. They argued that it would be undesirable to curtail their individualism that was so important by any government regulations or laws that would limit what the business leaders could do. However, the reality was that these very successful and powerful “rugged individualists” had regimented most everyone else—employees, consumers, and small businessmen who might sell them services or products. To Tugwell, if the wealthy and powerful few had no restrictions on their individualism, there would be precious little individualism for most of society. He sought a balance of regulating the individualism and prerogatives of the few somewhat in order to allow the vast majority of people to be able to have individuality as well.
Jonathan Kozol is an American writer, progressive activist, and educator, best known for his books on public education in the United States.
