kozol is so freaking interesting, this is pretty rad just as an insight into his own biography, background to his increasing presence in current left-ish media.
plus the story itself is quite inspiring, and there's this one single quote that keeps dogging me everytime my mind turns toward wanting to abandon the city for wide open spaces:
"... I believe we have an obligation to stay here and fight these battles and work out these problems in the cities where there is the greatest need and where, moreover, we cannot so easily be led into a mood of falsified euphoria..." (p 8).
ouch!
of course, i ought to feel just as bad about continuing to work as a carpenter in the same light, no? aurgh.