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
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
American politician doesWe're going to bring back God and the Bible and drive the gods of secular humanism right out of the… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
My time at the Denver Public Schools taught me there is no harder, or more important, job than being a teacher. — Michael Bennet Copy Share Image
I attended the public schools.And I have happy memories and strong memories of those days and good memories of the good sense… — Samuel Alito Copy Share Image
The very wealthy have little need for state-provided education or health care... They have even less reason to support health insurance for… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
In 1962, the Supreme Court banned organized prayer from public schools. Since then, federal, state, and local courts and officials, including public… — Ralph E. Reed, Jr Copy Share Image
The public schools tend to teach little kids from when they are very young about the whole universe without God and that… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
The public schools are supported entirely, in most communities, by public funds-funds exacted not only from parents, nor alone from those who… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
I went to big, broken, under-resourced public schools, but we had a real sense of community, because those were days in the… — Deval Patrick Copy Share Image
I do look upon the secretary of education's primary responsibility as the quality of education that - and improving the education that… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Connecticut's public schools are among the best in the nation, but there's more that we can do to close achievement gaps so… — Ned Lamont Copy Share Image
During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially.… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
“If we don't save the public schools, we're not going to save very much else." I use this line all the time.… — Bruce Deitrick Price Copy Share Image
[T]his is another reason why the children of illegals are sought for public schools: They'll put up with it. The children of… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Creationists have also changed their name ... to intelligent design theorists who study 'irreducible complexity' and the 'abrupt appearance' of life—yet more… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“When we black people commit ourselves to living simply as a political action, as a way of breaking the stress caused by… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
“We find aspects of the market model for education to actually impede the academic effectiveness of schools. Specifically, while reformers laud the… — Christopher A. Lubienski Copy Share Image
I like playing at public schools. I like when there's more of a diverse audience. I'll play wherever people want to hear… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
“Marco reported that homeless children [in Kublai Kahn's city of Daidu] were cared for and educated. While he says little about the… — Russell Freedman Copy Share Image
Sandra Day O'Connor - once she said that there are - there were no public schools in America until the 18th century,… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
“The trouble with purging the school curriculum of religious knowledge is that ultimate questions cannot be answered without reference to religious beliefs… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
“Our great mistake in education is, as it seems to me, the worship of book-learning–the confusion of instruction and education. We strain… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
“So nobody must be allowed to think at all. Down with the public schools! Children must be drilled mentally by quarter-educated herdsmen,… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“Our current education system was created in the late 1800s and early 1900s, and was modeled after the new factories of the… — Robert Epstein Copy Share Image
“We have not noticed how fast the rest has risen. Most of the industrialized world--and a good part of the nonindustrialized world… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
“The American university has become the final stage of the most all encompassing initiation rite the world has ever known. No society… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“Many Southern communities developed two school systems: an underfunded public system mostly attended by black students, and private schools set up for… — Kristen Green Copy Share Image
“In April 2012, The New York Times published a heart-wrenching essay by Claire Needell Hollander, a middle school English teacher in the… — Michael Sokolove Copy Share Image
The arts are suffering amongst public schools, but also, minority theater companies are struggling, and I firmly believe in freedom of expression… — Nelsan Ellis Copy Share Image
The concept of religious freedom is largely ignored in the curriculum of our nation's public schools. — Charles Haynes Copy Share Image
Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Whenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational "excellence," I think of what an improvement it would be if our… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image