As a teacher of fourth-graders in a public school, where corporal punishement was not allowed, she had years of violence stored up… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
That education should be regulated by law and should be an affair of state is not to be denied, but what should… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Courts should always do the right thing. But if winning were as simple as making a good argument and filing a good… — Evan Wolfson Copy Share Image
I look back and see the kids who made it through school - it made a huge difference in their lives, which… — Denise Juneau Copy Share Image
In America, the promise of quality public education should be extended to all children. — Dean Phillips Copy Share Image
As a senator from the only true swing district in the Texas Senate, I've been targeted by the GOP for my outspoken… — Wendy Davis Copy Share Image
We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning. — Kinky Friedman 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
Ending child poverty, stopping the opioid crisis, improving child nutrition, providing a high-quality public education to students, ending the racial wealth gap:… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
“..."extreme capitalism": the obsessive, uncritical penetration of the concept of the market into every aspect of American life, and the attempt to… — James K. Galbraith Copy Share Image
Public education is so important - resisting privatization and charterization, high-stakes testing, and defunding. It's important for New York, but it's also… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
“The public education system did not promote the enlightenment of the individual, but rather suppressed critical thought and neurodiversity. It produced preformatted,… — Rajinder Jhol Copy Share Image
“Public education does not serve a public. It creates a public. And in creating the right kind of public, the schools contribute… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Let our pupil be taught that he does not belong to himself, but that he is public property. Let him be taught… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
“Those who are ignorant should be taught all you can teach them; society is to blame for not providing free public education;… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Direct popular government of a state larger than a city state had already failed therefore in Italy, because as yet there was… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
If you're in Alabama, you're selling tax incentives - with all due respect to Alabama - because what else are you going… — Phil Murphy Copy Share Image
We're fighting to lift up Kentucky workers by creating more good-paying jobs, lowering the cost of prescription drugs, expanding access to health… — Andy Beshear Copy Share Image
I think people don't talk enough about education and what we need to do in our public education system. — Michelle Rhee Copy Share Image
We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“In Georgia, beating back a 1949 challenge from black parents to equalize the schools, Governor Herman Talmadge had already proposed a constitutional… — Carol Anderson Copy Share Image
I'm a proponent of single-payer health-care, public education, protecting the environment - all the things Democrats rally around. — Cynthia Dill Copy Share Image
Public education is the key civil rights issue of the 21st century. Our nation's knowledge-based economy demands that we provide young people… — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
Half of all kids in public education are below the poverty line. Two-thirds of the achievement gap comes from factors outside of… — Randi Weingarten Copy Share Image