Public school Quotes · Page 5

My dad is a lifelong public servant; my mom was a public-school teacher - it's in my DNA.

— Ashley Biden

Going to public school is like living in bubble, you have no concept of what other people do.

— Thighpaulsandra

I grew up in a little cul-de-sac in the suburbs and went to public school. I went to Costco on the weekends

— Rooney Mara

So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall.

— Anonymous

The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.

— Christopher Fry

Close Dept. of Education, but don't dismantle public schools.

— Ron Paul

People always assume I went to public school, which I didn't, so that immediately puts me somewhere.

— Charlie Brooker

Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?

— B. F. Skinner

Public schools teaching students to hate America as the left appeases Muslims with "religious literacy training."

— Rush Limbaugh

Any time you have poverty, joblessness, sub-par public schools, and a lack of opportunity, you're going to have a high rate of…

— George Pelecanos

I'm not sure Betsy DeVos has ever spent a day in a public school. And I don't - I'm pretty sure Donald…

— Mark Shields

I am inclined to agree with the Head Master of Eton that pæderastic passions among schoolboys 'do no harm'; further, I think…

— Aleister Crowley

Anybody who knows the public school teacher world knows there's not a lot of money in teaching. You do it because you…

— Kevin Sorbo

When I was at Tech, no public school was ahead of us in graduation rates. We got our guys to compete in…

— Mike Leach

Every successive generation becomes a living memorial of our public schools, and a living example of their excellence.

— Joseph Story

[If Republicans] got to put their kids into public school. They got to take public health. They would become libertarian faster than…

— Greg Gutfeld

Much of the criticism centered around Betsy DeVos focuses on her lack of experience with public schools. While she has shown some…

— Ana Kasparian

I worry that the weakness - particularly of our public schools - is going to make that less and less true for…

— Condoleezza Rice

Taxes are how we pool our money for public health and safety, infrastructure, research, and services-from the development of vaccines and the…

— Holly Sklar

Unfortunately, race still determines too much, often determines where people live, determines what kind of education in their public schools they can…

— Hillary Clinton

My colleague Sen. Rick Santorum, Pennsylvania Republican, erroneously suggested that I support the teaching of intelligent design as an alternative to biological…

— Edward Kennedy

There are some people in our state who may choose a different public school because they have the private means to move…

— Tate Reeves

What holds for adults holds even more for children, sensitive and conscious of differences. I certainly hope that the Board of Education…

— John Dewey

My appearance on 'Public School' garnered a smattering of fan mail from girls, which was good, and letters from mothers saying I…

— James Lovegrove

No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no…

— Henry James

Because my parents were American missionaries who sent me to public schools in rural Japan, I had to confront Hiroshima as a…

— Linda Hoaglund

While public school history courses in the United States stress the horrors of the German Nazi murder of 6 million Jews and…

— Jonathan Ott

Conservative and liberal politicians alike now spend millions waging wars around the globe, funding the largest military state in the world, providing…

— Henry Giroux

Hoping to see karate included in the universal physical education taught in our public schools, I set about revising the kata so…

— Gichin Funakoshi

“Many white children in this city never set foot in a public school. They follow in the footsteps of their parents and…

— Kristen Green

Apparently almost anyone can do a better job of educating children than our so-called 'educators' in the public schools. Children who are…

— Thomas Sowell

“A caste society,” wrote U.S. Commissioner of Education Francis Keppel 25 years ago, “violates the style of American democracy.… The nation in…

— Jonathan Kozol

Half the Christian churches of New York are trying to ruin the free public schools in order to replace them by religious…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

The people of Missouri said they expect their elected leaders to support public schools because they know that education is the best…

— Jay Nixon

We just moved out of L.A. because I didn't want to be raising my girls in the city. They're in public school…

— Jennie Garth

Everything that we used to think got taught at home now seemingly has to be taught in the public school system, and…

— Ann Richards

I remember the mentoring experiences of some teachers that I had, like a second term home room teacher in public school that…

— Sanford I. Weill

There is no accountability in the public school system - except for coaches. You know what happens to a losing coach. You…

— Ross Perot

I grew up in Queens, in New York City, in a middle class Jewish family. My mother was a public school teacher,…

— Elliott Abrams

Doesn't anything socialistic make you want to throw up? Like great public schools, or health insurance for all?

— Kurt Vonnegut