Jonathan Kozol Quotes

We need to focus on helping EVERY child to get a world-class education in EVERY school in this country.

President-elect Bush spoke in a forceful and candid manner that it is his passion that all children should have access to a first class education.

The Brown decision promised that every child, regardless of the color of his or her skin, would have unequivocal access to quality education and an equal opportunity to pursue his/her dreams.

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.

For six and a half years, I had responsibility for leading the Labour party policy on education and delivering on our promise of improved opportunities for all our children.

In America we believe that every child, no matter where they live, who their family is, or what the color of their skin, is entitled to as good an education as the richest parent in America can give to their children.

Access to a quality education in our country is a civil right for all Americans young and old. But to ensure it for scores of our fellow Americans, we must rethink education.

Only Labour will provide the radical changes needed to create a free, fair and funded education system, which protects education as a right for the many, not a privilege for the few.

Latinos care about education, yes, so we need reform, not just money.

Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.

School choice is the civil rights issue of the 21st century.

I believe the government should ensure all children are provided with a good education.

If you're a citizen of the State of New York, your kid has as much a right as another kid to an education, and the best education. The money should be distributed equally to all.

All you've got to do is go back and look in the early 1900s and see what we had in Texas without public education and realize what it has done for the state.

May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks.

I would like to make it so that education was a right, and not a privilege.

It's not easy for the average family to ensure that their child receives a quality education. And the federal government is not making it any easier.

Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life.

Until we get equality in education, we won’t have an equal society.

Ensuring preschool education for all and investing more in public schools is essential if the U.S. is to avoid becoming a neo-feudal country where advantages and disadvantages are passed on from one generation to the next.

We cannot, as a country, improve economically, socially, and culturally without quality education.

What we need is an education system that works for every child, not a select few. This starts with providing a quality education for our youngest Americans so they can learn, grow, and become prosperous citizens.

I believe that every child in Maryland deserves a world-class education, regardless of what neighborhood they grow up in.

I believe you have a birthright to a good education.