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...National Book Award, became a classic among educational reformers and made him something of a celebrity among the radical/liberal intelligentsia. One factor in the book's popularity, which pictured the Boston school machine as caring little for teachers and teaching, and even less for students, was Kozol's obvious and unaffected compassion: he cared intensely for his students and felt moral outrage at the barbarities of the schools...
...YEARS AGO, Jonathan Kozol '58, Harvard Graduate and Rhodes Scholar, got a job teaching black fourth graders in the then segregated Boston public school system and was fired for having his class read a poem by Langston Hughes. The poem, he was informed, was not on the approved reading list, and the school department was not of a mind to allow teachers to determine what was to pass for education...
...Night is Dark and I am Far From Home is similarly filled with moral outrage, but unfortunately, that is about all it offers. The book is a rambling critique of modern American society that finds brutality, inhumanity and just plain ugliness practically everywhere, and Kozol seems more intent on arousing feelings of guilt in his readers than on attempting to understand or analyze the problems he finds. In the first chapter he says he hopes he will provoke "pain and anguish" in the consciousness of the reader, and he has clearly put a lot of effort into writing a depressing...
...BEST DEVELOPED part of the book describes the role modern schools play as protectors of social order. Kozol tells us that the first objective of public schooling is the perpetuation of the American value system, that history texts fail to deal with American imperialism so future soldiers will be willing and able to fight in future Vietnams and that the poverty and pain in the lives of many Americans is ignored so good solid citizens will be insulated form feelings of compassion for those who suffer. He also describes the slow process of destruction of the human spirit that takes...
Class Hatred. Psychiatrist Harry L. Kozol, director of the Massachusetts Research Program on the Study of Dangerous Persons, thinks that Fromme may really have been striking at Nixon when she took aim at Ford. Broadly speaking, adds Kozol, assassinations are eruptions of bitter class hatred. "By killing a member of a more powerful group," he says, "the assassin not only exercises class hatred but builds up egotism and self-confidence...