Jonathan Kozol Quote

The Ann Arbor superintendent ridicules what he describes as simple-minded solutions [that attempt] to make things equal. But, of course, the need is not to make things equal. He would be correct to call this simple-minded. Funding and resources should be equal to the needs that children face. The children of Detroit have greater needs than those of children in Ann Arbor. They should get more than children in Ann Arbor, more than kids in Bloomfield Hills or Birmingham. Calling ethics simple-minded is consistent with the tendency to label obvious solutions, that might cost us something, unsophisticated and to favor more diffuse solutions that will cost us nothing and, in any case, will not be implemented.