Public school Quotes · Page 4

I was home-schooled. My mom wasn't a fan of public school systems.

— Britt Robertson

I'm not a fan of public school at all; I think it's one of the greatest catastrophes of American history.

— KRS-One

I believe the public schools are the greatest cultural influence in this country.

— Phyllis Schlafly

In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly.

— James Q. Wilson

The public school education system has done so much for me that it would be wrong not give anything back.

— Amanda Warren

In my mind, there is no reason public school reform should be a partisan issue.

— Michael Bennet

Drop out of the public schools. The public schools cannot be compromised with.

— Timothy Leary

I went to a public school, so we didn't have to wear a tie.

— Steve Kornacki

American education will be determined by the quality of American public education, and that's public schools that are available.

— Mark Shields

If you want a good education, go to private schools. If you can't afford it, tough luck. You can go to the…

— Paul LePage

I went to public school in L.A., so I felt like I'd been in a coma for three years. I woke up,…

— Val Kilmer

Privatizing our public schools makes as much sense as privatizing the fire department or or the police department

— Diane Ravitch

I do believe ultimately the role is of our state government to ensure every child in this state has a great public…

— Gretchen Whitmer

A boy will learn more true wisdom in a public school in a year than by a private education in five. It…

— Oliver Goldsmith

I'm entirely uneducated. I went to public school - public in the American sense - a blue-collar, working-class school. I never got…

— Rupert Graves

Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened…

— Mark Twain

I’m telling you, you’d like him. He goes to a public school and just started at Spencer’s. The other day, he was…

— Richelle Mead

Schools alone are not to blame for underachievement. The breakdown of the family, poverty, and decaying cities with eroding tax bases have…

— Bob Beckel

The majority of the high schools and the public schools in N.Y.C. don't even have band programs. Hip-hop in a lot of…

— Wynton Marsalis

My dad was a doctor who worked at a jail. He was more like a jail administrator. My mom was a public…

— Dan Amboyer

A lot of men who have accepted - or had imposed upon them in boyhood - the old English public school styles…

— J. B. Priestley

I have been criticized throughout the course of my career for placing too much faith in the reliability of children's narratives; but…

— Jonathan Kozol

What's always got me is the fact that when people talked on the telly about Iraq, before Afghanistan kicked off, you'd get…

— Ross Kemp

Every public school in the country should have a nutrition-education curriculum. We're creating a pilot program at my son's school. We are…

— Cat Cora

I've always been interested in history, but they never taught Negro history in the public schools...I don't see how a history of…

— Jacob Lawrence

Religion is a personal, private matter and parents, not public school officials, should decide their children's religious training. We should not have…

— George W. Bush

The first generation of school reformers I talk about - nineteenth century education reformer Horace Mann, Catharine Beecher - they are true…

— Dana Goldstein

If an American, because his skin is dark, cannot eat lunch in a restaurant open to the public, if he cannot send…

— John F. Kennedy

I still use the pronoun she for my publicity materials, and for mainstream media stuff, for two reasons: the first is that…

— Rae Spoon

Jerry Falwell knows who caused the terrorist attack on America: the ACLU. "The ACLU's got to take a lot of blame for…

— Wendy Kaminer

But, once again, when I said I'm so grateful for my mom just being adamant about me staying in public school -…

— Regina King

The 1970s were the height of social mobility. College was accessible. My grandfather was a poor immigrant who went to a public…

— Lauren Greenfield

My husband and I are both proud public school graduates.

— Laura Lippman

If prayer is to leave the public schools, let the ridicule of prayer leave also.

— Boyd K. Packer

In public schooling, social policy has been turned back almost one hundred years.

— Jonathan Kozol

The public school system doesn't get everybody. Every generation has its rebels.

— Rush Limbaugh

That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.

— Evelyn Waugh

Public school teachers are the new priesthood while traditional religion is ridiculed and maligned.

— Ann Coulter

I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me.

— Anonymous

Free education for all children in public schools... Combination of education with industrial production

— Karl Marx