Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance. — Jonathan Kozol 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
Public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid. — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
“I want to kidnap kids and force them to take useless tests all day long. Wait, that’s what our public education system… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
While Matt Bevin insults and bullies educators, I care about showing our teachers respect, protecting their pensions, and making public education a… — Andy Beshear 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
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
All democracies demand common public education because nothing makes people so much alike as the same education. — Karl Jaspers 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
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
American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
If charter schools are not more successful on average than the public schools they replace, what is accomplished by demolishing public education?… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
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
Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate… — Alcee Hastings Copy Share Image
Randi Weingarten, head of the American Federation of Teachers, calls [Betsy] DeVos the most ideological, anti-public education nominee since the creation of… — Claudio Sanchez 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
The rascal multitude are the proper targets of the mass media and a public education system geared to obedience and training in… — Noam Chomsky 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
To me, money is a means to do good. I reached a point in my life where I had enjoyed tremendous business… — Eli Broad 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
Until the Left took over American public education in the second half of the 20th century, it was generally excellent - look… — Dennis Prager 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
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
More generally, independent farmers had to be trained to become docile workers in the expanding industrial system. It was necessary to drive… — Noam Chomsky 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
“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
“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
“There were those few, and there will be more, who really liked people, loved people—all people. They were the human torches setting… — Saul Alinsky 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
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
American education will be determined by the quality of American public education, and that's public schools that are available. — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
I was born to a single mother and often struggled to find my next meal. With the right opportunities from public education… — Jaime Harrison Copy Share Image
Sometimes political correctness runs amok in our public education system where we think that every kid can go to a four-year university. — George P. Bush Copy Share Image
You look at public education system, charter schools, infrastructure, in so many ways New Orleans has come back stronger. — Drew Brees Copy Share Image
Schools should be open. If it's a public education, and the school in your district is poor-performing, you should be able to… — Jalen Rose Copy Share Image
Evolution is not controversial in the field of science. It's controversial in the public sphere because public education is highly politicized. — Eugenie Scott 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