There was a time when I was in this private school and the kids were so conservative and close-minded that it was… — Ione Skye Copy Share Image
Oh, talking about private school, man, I had cornrows, and when I picked 'em out, certain people that didn't look like me… — John David Washington Copy Share Image
My father was an autodidact. It wasn't a middle-class house. Shopkeepers are aspirant. He paid for me to go to private school.… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
Just as members of American teachers unions often send their own children to private schools, so unionized workers at government-run hospitals in… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Joe Biden sent his own children to an elite private school, and parades as the Black Lives Matter candidate, yet his policies… — Miranda Devine Copy Share Image
When I was in - at Vassar, and I came from a public high school in New Jersey, there was - that… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
My parents are very successful, and I went to the nicest private school in the Seattle area. I was lucky. But I… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I was really lucky. I had a really great opportunity. I went to an all girls, very small private school from seventh… — Sophia Bush Copy Share Image
I was at a small private school in London. I wasn't very academic. My dad said to me, 'OK, you might as… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
In California we froze property taxes, school size increased, test scores declined, and there was a massive middle-class white flight to private… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
My upringing did influence me to a certain extent. I grew up going to private school, and we'd have these really cute… — Minnie Mortimer Copy Share Image
I was brought up in a very naval, military, and conservative background. My father and his friends had very typical opinions of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The students we saw were all bright, attractive, and polite, and the teachers all seemed to be smart and dedicated, and I… — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
I just cannot understand why we can't have better schools. That private schools are the only option for the kind of high-net-worth… — Marc Benioff Copy Share Image
Let us labor for the security of free thought, free speech, pure morals, unfettered religious sentiments, and equal rights and privileges for… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
The private schools and the independent schools like Oprah's are really doing well because they've got the best of everything but it… — Charlayne Hunter-Gault Copy Share Image
You can be distracted by your love life, by the baseball game, movies, by the nonsense. "Can I get my kid into… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
School choice opponents are also dishonest when they speak of saving public schools. A Heritage Foundation survey found that 47 percent of… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Jack Sturtzer, one of my cousins, had gone to art school and suggested that I might be interested in a private school… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
At eight or nine I passed the exam for Notting Hill and Ealing High, a private school. I had an assisted place;… — Konnie Huq Copy Share Image
Then all this started to pick up because I signed with ForeFront when I was in seventh grade. It got a lot… — Stacie Orrico Copy Share Image
President-elect [Donald] Trump has made a provocative choice for secretary of education. Betsy DeVos comes from a wealthy Michigan family. She is… — Steve Inskeep Copy Share Image
Growing up, my parents made a lot of sacrifices for my brother and I to go to private school and to attend… — Marcus Mariota Copy Share Image
This seemed a dreary and wasted life for a girl with fifteen years of straight A's, but I knew that's what marriage… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I was educated in a private school in England amongst people who had been trained for sort of banking or the Army… — Jeremy Irons Copy Share Image
In fact, one day I was going to Jackson and I saw a huge sign that U.S. Senator John Stennis was speaking… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
In the private system and the private schools, the principal is pretty much a dictator. He or she can hire whoever s/he… — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
When I was at Paisley Grammar we were equipped to compete with the private-school kids - and encouraged to do so. The… — Andrew Neil Copy Share Image
I used to teach at a private school, and the parents thought I loved their children. I did not love their children!… — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
I did a lot of my school on set. Some years I went to a private school for a couple of hours,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority belong to… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Second, when comparing private school and public school test scores, it's like apples and oranges. Public schools have to take everyone, but… — Dennis Moore Copy Share Image
I've known white Australian girls from wealthy families who were sent to posh private schools, who knew all of that stuff, and… — Justine Larbalestier Copy Share Image
The people who run the international tests told us, "the biggest predictor of student success is choice." Nations that "attach the money… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
Looking, acting, and ultimately being Prep is not restricted to an elite minority lucky enough to attend prestigious private schools, just because… — Lisa Birnbach Copy Share Image
I went to a school that was founded on a lot of very radical ideals of how education should be changed. But… — Ezra Miller Copy Share Image
I went to a Catholic school. The private school was good - the teachers wanted all of us to have the freedom… — Laura Dern Copy Share Image
Before playing football, I didn't fit in anywhere. My parents didn't have a lot of money, which they spent on our education… — Ryan Coogler Copy Share Image
Well, first of all, I grew up in New York City, going to first a public school, then a private school, and… — Mark Feuerstein Copy Share Image
I am both a public and a private school boy myself, having always changed schools just as the class in English in… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
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