Public school Quotes · Page 5

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

— Samantha Fox

I am increasingly ready to junk the public school system.

— Charles Murray

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

— Nick Mancuso

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

— Mary McCormack

I can't imagine going to an all-girls school. I went to a public school.

— Amy Sedaris

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

— Anonymous

I was ridiculed in public school for being smart. A teacher's pet.

— Julia Glass

The public school has become the established church of secular society.

— Ivan Illich

I think a lot of people were like, "Oh, you're 13, you're gonna rebel." But I was never in public school and…

— Ellar Coltrane

I'm very grateful and fully aware that 90 percent of actors are not working. Going from public school teacher to a show…

— Jesse Williams

NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight,…

— Christa McAuliffe

And there should not be a limit on the creation of new public schools. We ought to expand choices for parents.

— John Engler

Charter schools are public schools. They're paid for publicly and they're part of the public system. They just have a more independent…

— David Brooks

Almost all the students who make it to Caltech, one of the best scientific universities in the world, come from public schools.…

— Anonymous

I think my formative experiences were really in junior high, where at a typical public school we were doing little genetic experiments,…

— Joseph DeRisi

One fact we're particularly proud of is that there are more people learning languages on Duolingo in the US than there are…

— Luis von Ahn

When I went to school, you had to take art, you had to play an instrument. You had to play an instrument.…

— Spike Lee

Praise God for those of you who do homeschool. I can't emphasize enough: Do what you can to get your kids out…

— Rafael Cruz

As soon as Jesus sits on his throne he's gonna rule the world with a rod of iron. That means he's gonna…

— John Hagee

I [have big plans]. Promoting freedom around the world, particularly with women in the Middle East. Working on global disease. Working on…

— George W. Bush

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

I grew up going to public school, and they were huge public schools. I went to a school that had 3,200 kids,…

— P. J. O'Rourke

It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public…

— E. M. Forster

When my kids were growing up, I wanted their teachers to teach them science, reading, math and history. I also wanted them…

— Adam Hamilton

“And whether or not the educators who are trying to raise up America's students can actually set and meet higher academic standards,…

— Tony Danza

“In brief, the teaching process, as commonly observed, has nothing to do with the investigation and establishment of facts, assuming that actual…

— H.L. Mencken

Economics now drives politics. This gives us a system in which the relationship between power and politics is no longer fused. Power…

— Henry Giroux

I like playing at public schools. I like when there's more of a diverse audience. I'll play wherever people want to hear…

— Bradford Cox

We are watching people who've been educated in the public school system and in colleges for the last 25 or 30 years…

— Rush Limbaugh

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

The trouble is that Millennials and many recent products of the public schools believe that America was made great, if they're even…

— Rush Limbaugh

“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

Private schools have been attacking public schools and really I was just a pawn in their game. I speak at schools of…

— Gorilla Zoe

I wanted to find ways for colleges and universities to become involved with public schools to help young people prepare for college.

— Freeman A. Hrabowski III

The modern public school derived from a philosophy of freedom reflected in the First Amendment ... The non-sectarian or secular public school…

— William J. Brennan

I hope that schools have changed since I was a little girl. My memory of the teaching of the public schools is…

— Isadora Duncan

Character issues such as drug abuse are not exclusive to Detroit Public Schools. My reference to substance abuse, not intended to focus…

— Kwame Kilpatrick

When I first came to Oxford, I struggled to feel comfortable in an Anglican, public school-dominated institution.

— Niall Ferguson

Well, my mom taught public school music for almost 40 years. And she's about 5 feet - and very mighty. And she…

— Anonymous

Education is huge for me. I went to public school until I turned thirteen, and was lucky enough to afford college once…

— Julia Stiles