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
I have an absolutely unshakable faith in kids, grounded in the fact that I worked for three years in one of the… — Michelle Rhee Copy Share Image
When I was sent to public school, I was relieved that I could wear what I wanted to wear. — Davey Havok Copy Share Image
No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
I miss my friends in public school, but it's kind of a part of something that you have to give up. I'd… — Jackie Evancho Copy Share Image
My father said, "Okay, enough with the Jewish school." He put me into a public school and he said, "If you are… — Chantal Akerman Copy Share Image
Tolerance sounds like a virtue, and at times it may be. [But should] a parent be tolerant of behavior that is harming… — Dave Hunt Copy Share Image
Now, I have nothing against the public school system as it is presently organized, once you allow the humor of its basic… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
Character issues such as drug abuse are not exclusive to Detroit Public Schools. My reference to substance abuse, not intended to focus… — Kwame Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
A lot of men who have accepted - or had imposed upon them in boyhood - the old English public school styles… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
Often times the public school teachers are ridiculed or they are made to feel inferior but this is really undeserved. — Peter Agre Copy Share Image
If you are a kid in America, and you live in a secular home and go to public school, you know nothing… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Today the children of our public schools are taught more of the history, heroes, legends, and sagas of the old world than… — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
I hold that in this country there must be complete severance of Church and State; that public moneys shall not be used… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When I went to school, you had to take art, you had to play an instrument. You had to play an instrument.… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
If you're poor, you don't often live near a good school. If it's a competitive public school program, our kids are not… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money. — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
I was born in Columbia in 1954, the year the Supreme Court invalidated racial segregation in public schools. I visited frequently but… — Randall Kennedy Copy Share Image
Any time you have poverty, joblessness, sub-par public schools, and a lack of opportunity, you're going to have a high rate of… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
I was a scholarship minor public school day boy at Ardingly College and later Whitgift School. Then, straight into work as a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Public schools teaching students to hate America as the left appeases Muslims with "religious literacy training." — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
We come then to the question presented: Does segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race, even though… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
I see bright kids trapped in public schools that are just warehousing them. As an educator this makes me scared. As Secretary… — Maria Shriver Copy Share Image
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, tomorrow… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Whenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational "excellence," I think of what an improvement it would be if our… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
