3 Quotes from Kozol

Patrick Darling
10-16-15







     "I asked how many white kids she had taught in the South Bronx in her career. 'I've been at this school for eighteen years,' she said. 'This is the first white student I have ever taught'"(Kozol 1).

- This quote stuck out because even though it was a long time ago since schools were desegregated, the schools are still very much segregated.



    "Visitors to schools like these discover quickly the eviscerated meaning of the word, which is no longer a proper adjective but a euphemism for a plainer word that has apparently become unspeakable"(Kozol 3).

- In this quote Kozol is talking about the use of the word "diverse." Talking about how the gutted the meaning of the word diverse to try to make it like their schools are diverse, when in reality they aren't. They simply substituted it in for segregation, since they are not completely segregated by a small margin they feel diverse at that level.



     "It's as if you have been put in a garage where, if they don't have room for something but aren't sure if they should throw it out, they put it there where they don't need to think of it again"(Kozol 4).

- This quote very much speaks for its self. People don't want to think that schools are still segregated, so they just put that thought away.