Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom. — John Adams Copy Share Image
Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance. — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom. — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
All democracies demand common public education because nothing makes people so much alike as the same education. — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
All around the United States of America - in the cities and the counties - our public education is suffering and has… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
Until lawmakers can disentangle property taxes from public education, inequalities - perpetuated by the Supreme Court and Congress - will persist. — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
As elite attitudes towards public education over time illustrate, simple formulas are far from adequate. There are conflicting tendencies. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Mexico is a pretty poor country, but they are maintaining a free, high quality public education system, not for everyone of course… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We think we can contribute something toward the improvement of public education in our country. — Charles Best Copy Share Image
That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I think people don't talk enough about education and what we need to do in our public education system. — Michelle Rhee Copy Share Image
We will never meet our own expectations of public education unless the federal government is willing to play a consistent, long-term role;… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
Many of the libertarian entrepreneurs who only want the government to leave them alone have simply forgotten how important government research, public… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
Humanity’s greatest advances are not in its discoveries – but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity. Whether through democracy,… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Shoot, I must have lived such a doggoned sheltered life as a normal, independent American up there in the Last Frontier, schooled… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
There are two subjects, indeed, which I shall claim a right to further as long as I breathe: the public education, and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program,… — Bennie Thompson Copy Share Image
“He said the purpose of public education isn’t to serve the public, it’s to make a public. Like Dewey believed, the purpose… — Deborah Kenny Copy Share Image
There is something fundamentally antidemocratic about relinquishing control of the public education policy agenda to private foundations run by society's wealthiest people;… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
Building on exhaustive research and probing into such diverse enterprises as textbook production and marketing, public education, and state-level politics, Adam R.… — Randall Balmer Copy Share Image
“The dilemma I was faced with was one every parent faces sooner or later: you want to defend your child, of course;… — Herman Koch Copy Share Image
Students need to learn how to unlearn those elements of a market driven society that deform their sense of agency, reducing them… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Smith could not be expected to have anticipated the horrors that were to come. But even in his own time, he was… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
In his 16 years in the Senate, John Kerry has fought against government waste and worked hard to bring some accountability to… — Zell Miller Copy Share Image
“The public education system did not promote the enlightenment of the individual, but rather suppressed critical thought and neurodiversity. It produced preformatted,… — Rajinder Jhol Copy Share Image
[The] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
We have never invested as much in public education as we should have because we've always had a private notion of children.… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
“I've noticed a fascinating phenomenon in my thirty years of teaching: schools and schooling are increasingly irrelevant to the great enterprises of… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
“One more thing, gentlemen, before I quit. Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal, a phrase that the Yankees… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“There were those few, and there will be more, who really liked people, loved people—all people. They were the human torches setting… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
“To make up for the projected billion-dollar-a-year shortfall created by the many new tax cuts he helped to deliver, something had to… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“Returning to his homeland, he had been refused both the position and the funding he would need to cure the entire nation… — Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar Copy Share Image
“Property taxes' rank right up there with 'income taxes' in terms of immorality and destructiveness. Where 'income taxes' are simply slavery using… — Larken Rose Copy Share Image
“One more thing, gentlemen, before I quit. Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal, a phrase that the Yankees… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“One more thing, gentlemen, before I quit. Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal, a phrase that the Yankees… — Harper Lee To Kill A Mockingbird Copy Share Image
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