Public school Quotes · Page 3

Finally, one night we were smoking pot [with Michael O'Donoghue] and talking about the people that are invariably in high school, whether…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be…

— Anonymous

Despite (or because of) a free public school system, millions of teenagers enter the work force without marketable skills. So why would…

— Charles Platt

Charter schools are just public schools on a slightly longer leash. A dog on a long leash is still a dog on…

— Marshall Fritz

The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unions. The problem is not underfunding…

— P. J. O'Rourke

The tutor gave us our work, and if we had trouble, she'd help us on it, but we were really only working…

— Quinn Shephard

If our public school system is a truly democratic institution. It's the place where we can reach every child in this county…

— Alice Waters

If prayer is to leave the public schools, let the ridicule of prayer leave also.

— Boyd K. Packer

Privatization radically alters power relations in our society by weakening groups like public employees and public school teachers.

— Nancy MacLean

Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools.

— Major Owens

Restoring prayer ... will scarcely at this date solve the grievous public school problem. Public schools are expensive and massive centers for…

— Murray Rothbard

Creating a high-functioning education system requires all the strategies involved in building high-functioning organisations anywhere. It requires a deliberate and aggressive strategy…

— Wendy Kopp

I can only speak for myself, but public school did nothing for me musically. I got the impression a musical career was…

— Charlie Fink

I went to Paterson Public School No. 6. At the time, it was the worst school in the city. Ain't nobody want…

— Fetty Wap

In 1962, the Supreme Court banned organized prayer from public schools. Since then, federal, state, and local courts and officials, including public…

— Ralph E. Reed, Jr

I was trained as a fine artist. I went to a progressive public school in Pennsylvania that developed these talents, but I…

— Lynda Resnick

I've noticed that my resolutions involve me not doing stuff that I wasn't going to do anyway so here's something more positive.…

— Arthur Smith

I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education,

— Rory Bremner

My primary and secondary education was provided by the Highland Park Public School System.

— James Cronin

We're spending, on average, three times more for prison than for public-school pupils. That's the dumbest investment policy. It doesn't make us…

— Marian Wright Edelman

It isn't that some gay will get some rights. It's that everyone else in our state will lose rights. For instance, parents…

— Michele Bachmann

There were no politics to polarize us then, to magnify every slight. The "negroes" of Washington had their public schools, restaurants, bars,…

— Pat Buchanan

You know that Estonia, based largely on how successful Skype was, built by Estonian developers, that was a tenth of the entire…

— Alexis Ohanian

We developed at the local school district level probably the best public school system in the world. Or it was until the…

— Ronald Reagan

So, I mean, there's still vast swaths of the city that are suffering from a lack of jobs and poor housing and…

— David Maraniss