Jonathan Kozol

"A bold inquiry into the values and goals of America's schools."--Cover.

The Night is Dark and I Am Far from Home

Kozol writes that school is a consumer fraud: it advertises education but offers indoctrination. Its function is not to educate humane and decent people, but safe citizens, manageable voters, manipulable consumers, and, in case of war or crisis, willing killers.

Melody Izard

Boy, he is radical. He says revolt even if you don't have a better solution. He cuts you no slack if you want to work with the oppressed, and then go home and drink your brandy and smoke your cigars. He will not let you say - "I like his message but it is so thugish and he doesn't really tell me what to do just what NOT to do - he says that you can't sooth yourself into thinking that your life is separate from the underpaid, underserved, underclass. He is disturbing and wrong and right and his 1975 words stir up the dust of Ferguson and get in your eyes and march along with Gandhi and King and Jesus F. Christ. Get out of my head so I can make my reservations for dinner and write my check to the homeless shelter and put up my tree.

I am indeed far from home.

The Night is Dark and I Am Far from Home

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