The Figurehead of American Public Education Who Prefers Private Religious Education (!)All things equal, I would prefer to have a child in… — Rod Paige Copy Share Image
“Because as Europe and the United States become more diverse, it creates an anxiety, a racial anxiety, that is reflected in declining… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have always believed that our people can stand on no higher ground than the school ground, or can enter any more… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
It's time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody's role is spelled out… — Albert Shanker Copy Share Image
You this day, gentlemen, assume new characters, enter into new relations, and consequently incur new duties. You have, by the favor of… — William Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When we shift our public dollars away from our schools and city services and into company developments, it increases the root causes… — Rashida Tlaib Copy Share Image
Many of those who argue for vouchers say that they simply want to use competition to improve public education. I don't think… — Jonathan Kozol 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
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
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
I would like to dissolve the $10 billion national Department of Education created by President Carter and turn schools back to the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“He found, using fifty stones to keep track, that he could easily remember the names of all fifty states, and he knew… — Michael Montoure Copy Share Image
Public education for some time has been heavily focused on what curricula we believe will be helpful to students. Life-Enriching Education is… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The private schools and the independent schools like Oprah's are really doing well because they've got the best of everything but it… — Charlayne Hunter-Gault Copy Share Image
The best means of forming a manly, virtuous, and happy people will be found in the right education of youth. Without this… — George Washington Copy Share Image
There are very powerful and wealthy special interests who want to privatize or dismember virtually every function that government now performs, whether… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
You cannot get through the density of the propaganda with which the American people, through the dreaded media, have been filled and… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
In the economy today, everybody understands that we need a well educated workforce. This is 2016. When we talk about public education,… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
I wasn't going to great schools, because my parents didn't believe in public education. They wanted the education to be influenced by… — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
If you're in Alabama, you're selling tax incentives - with all due respect to Alabama - because what else are you going… — Phil Murphy Copy Share Image
The rascal multitude are the proper targets of the mass media and a public education system geared to obedience and training in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“If you were born with the ability to change someone’s perspective or emotions, never waste that gift. It is one of the… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I do think there are ways to increase wages significantly, even in a global era. But you have to take voters and… — Sasha Abramsky Copy Share Image
Nothing is more important, certainly during these times of artificial intelligence, than our public education. And as it continues to grow and… — Marc Benioff Copy Share Image
Many states can no longer afford to support public education, public benefits, public services without doing something about the exorbitant costs that… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
Top-quality public education, universal health care, and free child care are among the many benefits provided by the state in Norway, reflecting… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
As a school board we felt it's an unfair expense to families. The lawsuit has a certain logic to it - if… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
President-elect [Donald] Trump has made a provocative choice for secretary of education. Betsy DeVos comes from a wealthy Michigan family. She is… — Steve Inskeep Copy Share Image
American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
As a teacher of fourth-graders in a public school, where corporal punishement was not allowed, she had years of violence stored up… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
If charter schools are not more successful on average than the public schools they replace, what is accomplished by demolishing public education?… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate… — Alcee Hastings Copy Share Image
Randi Weingarten, head of the American Federation of Teachers, calls [Betsy] DeVos the most ideological, anti-public education nominee since the creation of… — Claudio Sanchez Copy Share Image
While the romanticized ideal of universal public education resonates with the cognoscenti who oppose vouchers, poor urban families just want the best… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
Working families are worried about affordable health care, public education, and earning enough to get ahead. Our people should know that Frankfort… — Andy Beshear Copy Share Image
I believe that the key to building a strong economy in Wisconsin starts with education. Every single kid in our state deserves… — Tony Evers Copy Share Image
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