If you want to know how to solve society's problems, you start out with better public education. — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance. — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
No family should feel they need to leave San Francisco to find a great public education. — London Breed Copy Share Image
As elite attitudes towards public education over time illustrate, simple formulas are far from adequate. There are conflicting tendencies. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
All democracies demand common public education because nothing makes people so much alike as the same education. — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
Until lawmakers can disentangle property taxes from public education, inequalities - perpetuated by the Supreme Court and Congress - will persist. — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
“He said the purpose of public education isn’t to serve the public, it’s to make a public. Like Dewey believed, the purpose… — Deborah Kenny Copy Share Image
All around the United States of America - in the cities and the counties - our public education is suffering and has… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
You can't have public health without working with the public sector. You can't have public education without working with the public sector… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
Being here in Detroit, our public education in this city is - it's shocking. And the oversight of it and the oversight… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
The instruction furnished is not good enough for the youth of such a country ... There is not even any systematic instruction… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
No matter what your political persuasion, you can find a guide that makes it quick, easy and painless to exercise your right… — Steven Weber Copy Share Image
There is something fundamentally antidemocratic about relinquishing control of the public education policy agenda to private foundations run by society's wealthiest people;… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
The plain, unvarnished truth is that public education is a shoddy, fraudulent piece of goods sold t to the public at an… — Samuel Blumenfeld Copy Share Image
Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program,… — Bennie Thompson Copy Share Image
Shoot, I must have lived such a doggoned sheltered life as a normal, independent American up there in the Last Frontier, schooled… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
Many of the libertarian entrepreneurs who only want the government to leave them alone have simply forgotten how important government research, public… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
Humanity’s greatest advances are not in its discoveries – but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity. Whether through democracy,… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I have been long sensible that while I was endeavoring to render our country the greatest of all services, that of regenerating… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Building on exhaustive research and probing into such diverse enterprises as textbook production and marketing, public education, and state-level politics, Adam R.… — Randall Balmer Copy Share Image
The terrible state of public education has paid huge dividends in ignorance. Huge. We now have a country that can be told… — Fran Lebowitz 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
“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
“The corporate reform movement has co-opted progressive themes and language in the service of radical purposes. Advocating the privatization of public education… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
“The earliest use of writing was strictly commercial and economic, not political or bureaucratic. It was trade, entrepreneurship, and stewardship of private… — Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski Copy Share Image
“He found, using fifty stones to keep track, that he could easily remember the names of all fifty states, and he knew… — Michael Montoure Copy Share Image
“Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal (...). There is a tendency (...) for certain people to use this… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“Frances Wright was a writer, founder of a utopian community, immigrant from Scotland in 1824, a fighter for the emancipation of slaves,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“To make up for the projected billion-dollar-a-year shortfall created by the many new tax cuts he helped to deliver, something had to… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“I've noticed a fascinating phenomenon in my thirty years of teaching: schools and schooling are increasingly irrelevant to the great enterprises of… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
“For if freethinkers did not have a political platform, they nevertheless agreed on a wide range of social, cultural, and artistic concerns,… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
“One more thing, gentlemen, before I quit. Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal, a phrase that the Yankees… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“One more thing, gentlemen, before I quit. Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal, a phrase that the Yankees… — Harper Lee To Kill A Mockingbird Copy Share Image
“Returning to his homeland, he had been refused both the position and the funding he would need to cure the entire nation… — Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar Copy Share Image
I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools. — Andrew Cuomo Copy Share Image