"In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing job applications. Imagine what would happen if anyone tried to do that to children in a predominantly white suburban school."

-- Jonathan Kozol

#Jobs Quotes #Children Quotes #Book Quotes

“Welcome to the church of me.”

Source : Song: Road To Dead, Album: This Fire, 1996
“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.”
“As yourselves your empires fall, and every kingdom hath a grave.”

Source : William Habington, “Nox Nocti Indicat Scientiam”
“A conservative government survives essentially by dampening expectations and subduing hopes. Conservatism is basically pessimistic, reformism is basically optimistic.”

Source : "The Whitlam Government, 1972-1975". Book by Gough Whitlam, 1985.
“It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety.”

Source : Thomas De Quincey (1841). “Confessions of an English Opium-eater: Being an Extract from the Life of a Scholar”, p.89
“I wonder if these wack ***** realize they wack, And they the reason that my people say they tired of rap.”
“When I was asked to write a message for your brochure I gladly accepted as I remember my first school tour of England was Wales. The experience proved extremely useful in my development of a cricketer.”
“One of the things I like most of all is being in my study, in my barn, with absolutely no sound anywhere thinking about something. It's extremely important to me.”

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