Famous Quotes
"By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there."
More quotes about Success
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"In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure."
Bill Cosby on Success -
"Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success."
Swami Vivekananda on Success -
"Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it."
Bruce Lee on Success -
"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."
David Brinkley on Success -
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
Winston Churchill on Success
More quotes by Jonathan Kozol
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"At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book to read. Well, if it was painful to read, it was also painful to write. I had pains in my chest for two years while I was writing that book."
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"We are now operating a school system in America that's more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther King."
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"Apartheid education, rarely mentioned in the press or openly confronted even among once-progressive educators, is alive and well and rapidly increasing now in the United States."
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"During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed."
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"I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education."