Word: kozol
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...loss in G.N.P. from people who can't work and therefore do not produce and only consume is the cost I would emphasize to the present administration in Washington," Kozol said...
However, the more important effect of illiteracy to Kozol is its impact in human terms...
...standard argument for increasing literacy is to beat the Japanese by building up our competitive edge," Kozol said in an interview last week. "Literacy advocates rarely talk about literature. But is it too much to think that poor people might like to read other things than rule books...
...Kozol's interest in literature began as an undergraduate at Harvard, where he was a member of the Advocate and wrote his senior's honors thesis on "Hamlet...
...before his first year in England was finished, he left. "After four years at an Episcopalian prep school, and three years at Eliot House, I had spent so much time with people pretending to speak like Englishmen that my arrival at Oxford was disconcerting," Kozol said. "I thought everyone there was a fake. Then I realized that was how they really spoke...