"The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function which we call - in enemy nations - 'state indoctrination.'"

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Source : Jonathan Kozol (1990). “The Night Is Dark and I Am Far from Home”, Touchstone Books

Jonathan Kozol

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“I strongly support the call to greatly expand our human intelligence capability to penetrate al Qaeda and gather critical intelligence to prevent terrorist attacks on our homeland.”
“Whether you're gay, straight, black, white, we all deserve the same rights. If there's anything I can do to champion the cause and further it, I will, shy of getting arrested.”
“In the middle of my heart, a star appeared, and the seven heavens were lost in its brilliance.”
“We write an awful lot of stories about Donald Trump.”
“I don't think that comedians have a tradition of trashing the next generation.”
“I think I throw the ball as hard as anyone. The ball just doesn't get there as fast.”
“Chess is something more than a game. It is an intellectual diversion which has certain artistic qualities and many scientific elements.”
“In roughly the last century, important experiments have been launched by such charismatic educators as Maria Montessori, Rudolf Steiner, Shinichi Suzuki, John Dewey, and A. S. Neil. These approaches have enjoyed considerable success[...] Yet they have had relatively little impact on the mainstream of education throughout the contemporary world.”

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