My dad was an ironworker and my mom retired from our public schools. — Ben Ray Lujan Copy Share Image
Art shouldn't be prohibited in public schools when kids in private schools always get it. — Agnes Gund Copy Share Image
You won't believe what our kids are eating in the public schools. It's just nuts. — Mary McCormack Copy Share Image
I grew up in the public schools, my mom taught in them, and then my daughter is in them. — Amy Klobuchar Copy Share Image
It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Me, I was waiting tables of 13 and married at 19. I graduated from public schools, and taught elementary school. — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
We used to have superb public schools. I guess we don't anymore, but, boy, the public schools were really something and I… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Before I was in the Senate, I was a superintendent of the Denver Public Schools, and before that, I was in business. — Michael Bennet Copy Share Image
It is not envy or malice, as so many people think, but utter despair that has persuaded many educational reformers to recommend… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
“since the AP curriculum was nationally standardized. If they wanted to turn the public schools into chain stores, it worked for him.” — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
Prioritizing our public schools, teachers and students is the single best investment we can make to build a better, brighter future for… — Andy Beshear Copy Share Image
I hate the fact that public schools like the one I went to have fantastic sports facilities, and state schools don't. That's… — Clare Balding Copy Share Image
There's no distinction. A teacher is a preacher. The teachers in public schools are preachers, and the preachers in church are teachers. — KRS-One Copy Share Image
I believe that the fact and the reality of homosexuality and heterosexuality and of opposite and same-gender unions should be taught in… — Ed Case Copy Share Image
Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a… — Bobby Scott Copy Share Image
The study of tools as well as of books should have a place in the public schools. Tools, machinery, and the implements… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Providing better computer science education in public schools to kids, and encouraging girls to participate, is the only way to rewrite stereotypes… — Ryan Holmes Copy Share Image
As governor, I'll keep fighting for policies that will actually put more money in the pockets of workers, make it easier for… — Andy Beshear Copy Share Image
What are called 'public schools' in many of America's wealthy communities aren't really 'public' at all. In effect, they're private schools, whose… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
The phenomenon of home schooling is a wonderful example of the American can-do attitude. Growing numbers of parents have become disenchanted with… — Steve Forbes Copy Share Image
To improve both sexes they ought, not only in private families, but in public schools, to be educated together. If marriage be… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“Since the turn of the century, American fundamentalists had reveled in their sense of persecution by an infidel elite, but in the… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
“Lou Kitchenmaster, a retired teacher from Michigan, wrote an editorial in 2012 that puts the progressive position in perfect perspective: None of… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
I don't think people ought to believe only one news medium. They ought to read and they ought to go to opinion… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
We need to make sure that every child in America goes to a school every day that is safe, will teach them… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
I had serious reservations about putting my son in the public schools in my area. I have a tremendous amount of fear… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
If no one had ever challenged religious authority, there’d be no democracy, no public schools, women’s rights, improvements to science and medicine,… — Mary Griffith Copy Share Image
We are a people of many races, many faiths, creeds, and religions. I do not think that the men who made the… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“Listening to the debates about public schools on the Christian Right, one hears plenty of opposing opinions and a great deal of… — Katherine Stewart Copy Share Image
“The principal reason that districts within states often differ markedly in per-pupil expenditures is that school funding is almost always tied to… — Robert E. Slavin Copy Share Image
“Today, as in the past, we ought to remind ourselves that the true natural law is not a mere congeries of appetites,… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
“Taft ended his opinion with an added clause, a statement so bold that it would rattle even his strongest supporters. The chief… — Adrienne Berard Copy Share Image
“One of the major difficulties, and one of the monumental dangers, of sex education courses in public schools is that they disregard… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
“The nation has been turned upside down and inside out. The country that was once discovered by people seeking religious freedom is… — Rick Mayhew Copy Share Image
“Public schools were not only created in the interests of industrialism—they were created in the image of industrialism. In many ways, they… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
“Where are your free and compulsory schools? Does every one know how to read in the land of Dante and of Michael… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“I did feel a concentrated dislike for those boys, who couldn't submit to the odd faithless girlfriend, needling classmate, or dose of… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
