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Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them.


Nicholas Meyer


#civilized #civilized society #cornerstones #exist #good

There is a shortage of teachers but the January 2001 schools census showed that teacher numbers were at their highest level than at any time since 1984 - and 11,000 higher than 1997.


Estelle Morris


#census #higher #highest #highest level #january

Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.


P. J. O'Rourke


#corporal #punishment #reintroduce #schools #teachers

I was on the San Diego school board for 4 years, where I watched children successfully matriculate into elementary schools from Head Start programs from all around our city.


Bob Filner


#board #children #city #diego #elementary

As a matter of record, New York City spends a higher portion of its budget on instruction and associated costs within the schools themselves than any of the other 100 largest districts in the nation.


Jonathan Kozol


#associated #budget #city #costs #districts

At present, black children are more segregated in their public schools than at any time since 1968. In the inner-city schools I visit, minority children typically represent 95 percent to 99 percent of class enrollment.


Jonathan Kozol


#black #children #class #enrollment #i

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.


Jonathan Kozol


#any #attracting #best-educated #exciting #factor

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.


Jonathan Kozol


#after #between #black #black and white #board

Hypersegregated inner-city schools - in which one finds no more than five or ten white children, at the very most, within a student population of as many as 3,000 - are the norm, not the exception, in most northern urban areas today.


Jonathan Kozol


#children #exception #finds #five #inner-city

I emphasize teachers because they are largely left out of the debate. None of the bombastic reports that come from Washington and think tanks telling us what needs to be 'fixed' - I hate such a mechanistic word, as if our schools were automobile engines - ever asks the opinions of teachers.


Jonathan Kozol


#automobile #because #come #debate #emphasize