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
If Americans wish to preserve a country they will recognize, then the first step is to recognize the enemy. Public education is… — Charley Reese Copy Share Image
If you take a look at education, the kids that get good grades are said to humiliate those who don't. And what,… — Rush Limbaugh 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
“Public education does not exist for the benefit of students or the benefit of their parents. It exists for the benefit of… — John Green Copy Share Image
Letting things slide is always the easiest thing to do, in parenting no less than in banking, public education, and environmental protection.… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
“[Homeschooling]...recipe for genius: More of family and less of school, more of parents and less of peers, more creative freedom and less… — Raymond S. Moore Copy Share Image
Instead of unfairly demonizing teachers, we should be working with them to find solutions to the problems in our schools and make… — Albio Sires 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
While NCLB drove important progress on transparency and data disaggregation, I think it's clear that the status quo in public education is… — Michael Bennet Copy Share Image
“The most erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species… — H.L. Mencken 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
Public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid. — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
Health care is not a privilege. It's a right. It's a right as fundamental as civil rights. It's a right as fundamental… — Rod Blagojevich Copy Share Image
The public library is a center of public happiness first, of public education next. — John Cotton Dana Copy Share Image
“The dilemma I was faced with was one every parent faces sooner or later: you want to defend your child, of course;… — Herman Koch Copy Share Image
“Property taxes' rank right up there with 'income taxes' in terms of immorality and destructiveness. Where 'income taxes' are simply slavery using… — Larken Rose Copy Share Image
You can't create a successful politics of support for public education on the basis of asking voters not to care about skills,… — Nicholas Lemann Copy Share Image
After the privatization of public education everyone will get to choose a school that reflects only your own social values. No need… — David A. Strauss 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
To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America held back by mass… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
The educational system in the US was a highly predictable victim of the neoliberal reaction, guided by the maxim of "private affluence… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In The Field Of Public Education, The Doctrine Of 'Separate But Equal' Has No Place — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
“...the establishment of a universal system of public education inevitably changed the relations of education to the state. It is this above… — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share Image
This is an historic day for American public education and for our nation as we begin the journey to level the academic… — William Bradley Bryant Copy Share Image
