Inner City Schools Quotes

#1. 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

#2. This is the problem with over-crowded inner-city schools there aren't enough parts for everyone in the nativity story.

Karl Pilkington

#3. Imagine if baseball were taught the way science is taught in most inner-city schools. Schoolchildren would get lectures about the history of the World Series. High school students would occasionally reproduce famous plays of the past. Nobody would get in the game themselves until graduate school.

Alison Gopnik

#4. Many offenders are tracked for prison at early ages, labeled as criminals in their teen years, and then shuttled from their decrepit, underfunded inner city schools to brand-new, high-tech prisons.

Michelle Alexander

#5. 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

#6. I'm not a performer, in that I don't like the public, but I work in that respect.

Andy Goldsworthy

#7. I'll go for God, country, and my baby. Sure, as these teardrops burn, I promise to return, and when I'm home, I'll cling to the arms of my baby.

Johnny Burnette

#8. If some unemployed punk in New Jersey, can get a cassette to make love to Elle McPherson for $19.95, this virtual reality stuff is going to make crack look like Sanka.

Dennis Miller

#9. We all know you can get AIDS from sex, but did you know that you can get sex from aides?

Garrison Keillor

#10. Our fear of technology is really a fear of empowerment. We now have the ability to design the reality we live in, and we have to step up to the occasion.

Douglas Rushkoff

#11. I taught for 17 years in an inner city comprehensive schools.

Estelle Morris

#12. The SAT is a scam.

John Katzman

#13. Oblivion is not to be hired: The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the Register of God, not in the record of man.

Thomas Browne

#14. I wouldn't make it through the day without singing. It is my solace and my meditation and my release. It lets me know how I'm processing things, what I'm processing, if I'm out of touch in some area.

Bellamy Young

#15. May be they want to talk about it but they know there's nothing you can do to help

Nicholas Sparks

#16. To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#17. You cannot build a strong team unless you teach your people discipline.

Sunday Adelaja

#18. She was not one to set her teeth so far into something that she couldn't let go when presented with the truth.

Ann Patchett