From my grandfather's father, I learned to dispense with attendance at public schools, and to enjoy good teachers at home, and to… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I'm convinced many of America's heroes are public school teachers and administrators. Many of these people do what they do because of… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
I have many sources of inspiration. I'd have to point to Dr. Martin Luther King, first and foremost. But my parents were… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
But you're never taught in schools - we don't teach anyone in public schools that government is the problem. We don't teach… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
“My 'morals' were sound, even a bit puritanic, but when a hidebound old deacon inveighed against dancing I rebelled. By the time… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Evolution as described by Charles Darwin is an scientific theory, abundantly reconfirmed, explaining physical phenomena by physical causes. Intelligent Design is a… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
“Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders,… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
I have been criticized throughout the course of my career for placing too much faith in the reliability of children's narratives; but… — Jonathan Kozol 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'm not the only Labour MP who sent their child to public school but I'm the only one who's questioned about it. — Diane Abbott Copy Share Image
Some 'separation' zealots would expunge any vestige of religious observance in public schools. Many of the same anti-religious fanatics would like to… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
English was my fourth language. I arrived, I enrolled in public school, as a child, I believe I was about six years… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
When you introduce competition into the public school system, most studies show that schools start to do better when they are competing… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
The Ten Commandments being taken out of the public schools. I want them back. — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
Personally, I had a great education. My mum was a trained teacher, a Montessori teacher, and I know that I could not… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
I grew up in Queens, in New York City, in a middle class Jewish family. My mother was a public school teacher,… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Our children will be forced to learn that homosexuality is normal and natural and that perhaps they should try it, and that'll… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
The problem with intelligent-design theory, is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable. Not being susceptible to contradicting… — George Will 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
The foundations demand that public schools and teachers be held accountable for performance, but they themselves are accountable to no one. If… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
Zealous groups threaten to infringe civil liberties when they seek government support to impose their own religious views on nonadherents. This has… — Norman Dorsen Copy Share Image
The public school system doesn't get everybody. Every generation has its rebels. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image