Public school Quotes · Page 3

I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system.

— Anonymous

You won't believe what our kids are eating in the public schools. It's just nuts.

— Mary McCormack

I went to a catholic public school St Helens and learned English by watching bugs bunny cartoons.

— Nick Mancuso

I am increasingly ready to junk the public school system.

— Charles Murray

I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.

— Samantha Fox

I went to public school all my life and all through college and I liked it.

— Dave Eggers

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

— Rory Bremner

I started high school in L.A., but I went to public school in New York.

— Peyton List

I was reading five or six years ahead of my grade during public school. I was pretty bored. I made a contract…

— Joshua Lederberg

We need to really focus on getting this digital equity across the board in all of our public school systems, for both…

— Kimberly Bryant

Obviously Massachusetts has one of the best public school systems in the country. But there are schools, like in Brockton, where kids…

— Devin McCourty

I ended up going to public school in the first grade, and that's when I knew I had to be very strategic…

— Carmen Carrera

We evaluate all business decisions based on how we can best serve public school teachers and their students.

— Charles Best

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

Historically, much of the motivation for public schooling has been to stifle variety and institute social control.

— Hugh Jackman

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

Zealous groups threaten to infringe civil liberties when they seek government support to impose their own religious views on nonadherents. This has…

— Norman Dorsen

Education is thus a most power ally of humanism, and every public school is a school of humanism. What can the theistic…

— Charles Francis Potter

The public school system is not about educating black children. Never has been. Inner-city schools are about social control. Period. They’re operated…

— Barack Obama

I knew early on that I wanted to be a reporter, but I didn't know I was a political journalist until my…

— Gwen Ifill

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

I would like to dissolve the $10 billion national Department of Education created by President Carter and turn schools back to the…

— Ronald Reagan

If religious freedom is to endure in America, the responsibility for teaching religion to public school children must be left to the…

— Sam Ervin

Here's what income and wealth inequality is about. Last year, the top 25 hedge fund managers made more than 24 billion, enough…

— Bernie Sanders

I had serious reservations about putting my son in the public schools in my area. I have a tremendous amount of fear…

— Ana Castillo

We are a people of many races, many faiths, creeds, and religions. I do not think that the men who made the…

— John Dewey

I suppose there is no place in the world where snobbery is quite so ever-present or where it is cultivated in such…

— George Orwell

Those on the left who scream about income gaps choose to focus on the success of those at the top rather than…

— Star Parker

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

— Murray Rothbard

“A caste society,” wrote U.S. Commissioner of Education Francis Keppel 25 years ago, “violates the style of American democracy.… The nation in…

— Jonathan Kozol

Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It…

— Cyril Connolly

In many places it is literally not safe physically for youngsters to go to school. And in many schools, and its becoming…

— Boyd K. Packer

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool.

— Bill Gates

Our teachers at the public school level are the most underpaid for the importance of their job in America.

— Dean Smith

“One conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study in a public school.”

— The Dragon King of Beijing

My top priority is to stop the cuts to our public schools.

— Fred DuVal

I went to public school, and it shaped me as a musician.

— Ruben Studdard

Going to public school is like living in bubble, you have no concept of what other people do.

— Thighpaulsandra

I grew up in a little cul-de-sac in the suburbs and went to public school. I went to Costco on the weekends

— Rooney Mara

So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall.

— Anonymous