Public school Quotes · Page 3

When I was sent to public school, I was relieved that I could wear what I wanted to wear.

— Davey Havok

My mom is a public school teacher and works with third grade students.

— Jane McGonigal

I was at a public school until I was in sixth grade when I moved to New York.

— Sami Gayle

Out of the public schools comes the greatness of the nation.

— Mark Twain

The Ten Commandments being taken out of the public schools. I want them back.

— Kinky Friedman

Public schooling does not serve a public; it creates a pubic.

— Neil Postman

That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.

— Abraham Lincoln

Parents give up their rights when they drop the children off at public school.

— Melinda Harmon

Nowadays, with history not being taught anymore in American public schools, self-esteem is taking its place.

— Dennis Miller

Public school was never in business to produce Thoreau. It is in business to produce a man like Richard Nixon and, even…

— Jonathan Kozol

We cannot go beyond the consumer society unless we first understand that obligatory public schools inevitably reproduce such a society, no matter…

— Ivan Illich

I do look upon the secretary of education's primary responsibility as the quality of education that - and improving the education that…

— Mark Shields

I came from a very comfortable, middle-class family living in Highland Park, Illinois.Really growing up in a Jewish community with a fabulous…

— Jill Stein

I went to a fairly normal, middle-of-the-road public school in a suburb of New Orleans, but it gave me huge opportunities.

— Sal Khan

The ACLU's various policies regarding religious freedom in public schools are a revealing collection of anti-religious bias.

— F. LaGard Smith

When I arrived at Middlesex I was the only guy who'd been to public school and I got plenty of stick. But…

— Andrew Strauss

According to an article on CNN.com, a new study says people who are bad kissers don't get laid. Where are you supposed…

— Chelsea Handler

As Americans we place special emphasis on human dignity, justice and freedom. WE measure as good of bad that which meets these…

— Henry Clausen

“but in public school i learned that it was not only natural but desirable that i should make my own decisions. it…

— Sheena Iyengar

“Tori glanced at the clock and bit back a curse. Hannah didn't need to learn any more bad words from her own…

— E.M. Gayle

We come then to the question presented: Does segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race, even though…

— Earl Warren

If we truly believe in our public schools, then we have a moral responsibility to do better - to break the either-or…

— Barack Obama

What a tremendous act of generosity on the part of the donors who made this possible and what a tremendous opportunity for…

— Jennifer Granholm

Because we are unqualifiedly and without reservation against any system of denominational schools, maintained by the adherents of any creed with the…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“My 'morals' were sound, even a bit puritanic, but when a hidebound old deacon inveighed against dancing I rebelled. By the time…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

The trouble is that Millennials and many recent products of the public schools believe that America was made great, if they're even…

— Rush Limbaugh

It isn't that some gay will get some rights. It's that everyone else in our state will lose rights. For instance, parents…

— Michele Bachmann

Education Secretary Arne Duncan spurned the opportunity to condemn thousands of Wisconsin public school teachers for lying about being 'sick' and shutting…

— Michelle Malkin

If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, tomorrow…

— Clarence Darrow

There are obvious places in which government can narrow the chasm between haves and have-nots. One is the public schools, which have…

— Anna Quindlen

I didn't think I was good at anything, didn't do well in school. And then in the third grade, I was going…

— Charles Koch

Every civil government is based upon some religion or philosophy of life. Education in a nation will propagate the religion of that…

— Noah Webster

If a person wants to be publicly gay, they should not be teaching in the public schools.

— Jim DeMint

Growing up, I was always in normal public school which is very important in my eyes.

— Tahj Mowry

Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison.

— Daniel Tosh

Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

— Henry Fielding

The concept of religious freedom is largely ignored in the curriculum of our nation's public schools.

— Charles Haynes

Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools.

— Major Owens

I didn't want to get stuck in pretty, public school roles, or I knew I'd end up as some sort of caricature.

— Robert Pattinson

I grew up in a rough area, went to an all-black school, public school.

— DeMarcus Cousins