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Jonathan Kozol

"The future teachers I try to recruit are those show have refused to let themselves be neutered in this way, either in their private lives or in the lives that they intend to lead in school. When they begin to teach, they come into their classrooms with a sense of affirmation of the goodness and the fullness of existence, with a sense of satisfaction in discovering the unexpected in their students, and with a longing to surprise the world, their kids, even themselves, with their capacity to leave each place they've been ... a better and more joyful place than it was when they entered it."

-- Jonathan Kozol

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“You know, when you're in your twenties you use a great deal of symbolism. You somehow think that a character standing beneath a cross is more interesting than a character standing underneath a billboard, but when you get a little older you realize that there's not much difference.”
“Iâ€™m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life acrossâ€”not to just depict lifeâ€”or criticize itâ€”but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You canâ€™t do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you canâ€™t believe in it. Things arenâ€™t that way.”
“Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.”
“I don't want to be Kato, the trial guy. It's like everything I do is under a microscope.”
“Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.”

Source : NY Journal-American, August 25, 1965.
“To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.”

Source : David Hume (2015). “A Treatise of Human Nature: Top Philosophy Collections”, p.57, 谷月社
“When I told my mother that I wanted to be an actress, she said, you can't live here and do that, and so I moved out. I was determined to prove her wrong because she was so sure that I was going to go astray. And that's the juice that kept me going”
“As you know, the thing that I know the least about is the topic of sports.”

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