Jonathan Kozol: Education in America (5 of 6)
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Jonathan Kozol is a non-fiction writer, educator, and activist, best known for his books on public education in the United States. Kozol graduated from Noble and Greenough School in 1954, and Harvard University summa cum laude in 1958 with a degree in English Literature. He was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to Magdalen College, Oxford. He did not, however, complete his Rhodes, deciding instead to go to Paris to write a novel. He spent four years there writing his only published work of fiction, The Fume of Poppies, and getting to know the likes of William Styron. It was upon his return that he began to tutor children in Roxbury, MA, and soon became a teacher in the Boston Public Schools. He was fired for teaching a Langston Hughes poem, as described in Death at an Early Age, and then became deeply involved in the civil rights movement. After being fired from BPS he was offered a job to teach for Newton Public Schools, the school district that he had attended as a child, and taught there for several years before becoming more deeply involved in social justice work and dedicating more time to writing.
Kozol has since held two Guggenheim Fellowships, has twice been a fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation, and has also received fellowships from the Field and Ford Foundations.
Kozol also has worked in the field of social psychology. Kozol is currently on the Editorial Board of Greater Good Magazine, published by the Greater Good Science Center of the University of California, Berkeley. Kozol's contributions include the interpretation of scientific research into the roots of compassion, altruism, and peaceful human relationships.
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"Patience is the luxury of those not in pain." This is the only early childhood our children have? Why is there a five year old throwing chairs and swearing in a Virginia kindergarten? Children need relief from their high stress childhoods, and their parents need support. Let's make change.
Thank you! For all you do, and all you give.. I hope the March on DC at the end of July 2011 will make a difference..
@ppvincent08 Specifically, what would anyone disagree with? What's the other side? I think it's more likely that most people just don't spend time thinking about public education.
Excellent and inspiring!!!
What is your point?
Excellent!
its sad how few people care for lectures and information like this....look at the views.
Education is not just for the children who receive it. Education benefits all of us in society. If you want to be really selfish, pay for all children to get as much education as they can handle, High school Post Doc whatever. What kind of life would we live if everybody could get enough educaiton to be able to contribute to society to their full potential.
I agree.
we need workers :/
@avalino79 - Well, this guy isn't exactly unbiased. People don't listen if they don't agree with his philosophy of education, they're not gonna listen. This is only one side of the argument.
@thefirecenter9624
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it may be one side of an argument, but the argument of the rich is the fact they want to keep their kids able to have those high class school help and activities. The government says it will take time, but the truth is, the government is rich, and the rich don't want to lose their privilege. That's the other side, plain and simple.