I have realized why corrupt politicians do nothing to improve the quality of public school education. They are terrified of educated voters. — Miriam Copy Share Image
“But Maine is a special place: there's something about untold acres of natural beauty in concert with an underachieving public school system… — William Giraldi Copy Share Image
I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated. — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
Many years ago Christian pioneers had to fight savage Indians. Today missionaries of these former cultures are being sent via the public… — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
My education began in the public schools of Wilmington. During most of these years, from about age 10, I also worked at… — Daniel Nathans Copy Share Image
My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
As a retired educator I have seen first-hand the impact a great education can have on a young person's life. I will… — Alma Adams Copy Share Image
We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The majority of the high schools and the public schools in N.Y.C. don't even have band programs. Hip-hop in a lot of… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
My dad was a doctor who worked at a jail. He was more like a jail administrator. My mom was a public… — Dan Amboyer 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
My colleague Sen. Rick Santorum, Pennsylvania Republican, erroneously suggested that I support the teaching of intelligent design as an alternative to biological… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
There are some people in our state who may choose a different public school because they have the private means to move… — Tate Reeves Copy Share Image
What holds for adults holds even more for children, sensitive and conscious of differences. I certainly hope that the Board of Education… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I worry that the weakness - particularly of our public schools - is going to make that less and less true for… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Taxes are how we pool our money for public health and safety, infrastructure, research, and services-from the development of vaccines and the… — Holly Sklar Copy Share Image
As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Boy is my wife stupid. It takes her and hour and a half to watch 60 minutes. My daughters no bargain either.… — Rodney Dangerfield Copy Share Image
I hope to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we don't have public schools. The churches… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
Let me go to Clinton's new proposal: to have uniforms in public schools. And people are doing that. How come they're doing… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
Creationists who want religious ideas taught as scientific fact in public schools continue to adapt to courtroom defeats by hiding their true… — Eugenie Scott Copy Share Image
I was aware that a quarter of the children in the country are born in poverty, and that the condition of public… — Robert Hass 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
There is no moral absolute, and this leads us to situational ethics, which unfortunately is being taught in public schools all over… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
When you wage war on the public schools, you're attacking the mortar that holds the community together. You're not a conservative, you're… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
High school was cool, man. I went to a public school for my first two years, and then I went and did… — Noah Centineo Copy Share Image
It is obvious to any observer that in every western country the increase of importance of public schools has been at least… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
After my parents got divorced, I had to go right into public school in the fourth grade. The Steiner school had never… — Justin Theroux Copy Share Image
For decades, the public school system failed too many children, so we passed the No Child Left Behind Act and demanded schools… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We all know that great leaders can create great successes...success for the Chicago public education fund is to bring great leaders into… — Kenneth C. Griffin Copy Share Image
This notion of public-school doors being barred to God would have confounded not only the founding fathers but also those who attended… — William Murchison Copy Share Image
American [public] schools are failing because they are organized according to a bureaucratic, monopolistic model; their organizing principle is basically the same… — David Boaz Copy Share Image
“for a boy goes to a Public School precisely to be made a normal, sensible boy—a good mixer—to be taken out of… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
For some of us it seems like yesterday when Ike was in the White House, the U.S. Senate censured Joe McCarthy, and… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
Harvard produces leaders. People with Harvard degrees go on to become administrators in high-level positions in state educational departments and in public… — Christina Hoff Sommers Copy Share Image
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 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