Public schools Quotes

We don't have drama in public schools in France. I had never taking an acting class.

— Stephanie Szostak

If a person wants to be publicly gay, they should not be teaching in the public schools.

— Jim DeMint

We're not proposing any shifting of funding from public schools to private schools.

— Betsy DeVos

We went to public schools from kindergarten through seventh grade, and it was fun.

— Dylan Sprouse

Virginia's public schools have long enjoyed a reputation for academic excellence.

— Glenn Youngkin

Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

— Henry Fielding

For digital natives, public schools are jails

— Bing Gordon

It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.

— Clarence Darrow

Whenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational "excellence," I think of what an improvement it would be if our…

— Thomas Sowell

I do not believe that any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States

— Anonymous

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

The arts are suffering amongst public schools, but also, minority theater companies are struggling, and I firmly believe in freedom of expression…

— Nelsan Ellis

The concept of religious freedom is largely ignored in the curriculum of our nation's public schools.

— Charles Haynes

Its amazing that so many kids turn out to be fairly normal, considering the weird socialization they get in public schools.

— Rick Santorum

As Governor of Texas, I have set high standards for our public schools, and I have met those standards.

— George W. Bush

My son William is only nine but he's had four public schools so far, one in Cornwall, one when I was at…

— Neil Warnock

“Nancy Pelosi lectures about the nobility of illegal immigrants, but stays away from the overcrowded emergency room, public schools for her own…

— Anonymous

When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment…

— Anonymous

Our public schools need to be in the control of parents and the community, as opposed to businessmen who see the $23…

— Charles Barron

Anyone who fears, as I do, that today's public schools are dangerously close to being irrelevant must read this book. The authors…

— John Merrow

Some 'separation' zealots would expunge any vestige of religious observance in public schools. Many of the same anti-religious fanatics would like to…

— Russell Kirk

I was raised in public schools, but from the word go, I never believed what the public schools were teaching me. Nor…

— Peter Brook

I hold that in this country there must be complete severance of Church and State; that public moneys shall not be used…

— Theodore Roosevelt

A high-speed connection is no more an essential civil right than 3G cell phone service or a Netflix account. Increasing competition and…

— Michelle Malkin

The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public…

— Thomas A. Edison

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

All boys and girls should have the opportunity to receive a high-quality education, no matter what part of the country they live…

— Michelle Bachelet

“If any lesson may be learned from the academic breakthroughs achieved by Pineapple and Jeremy, it is not that we should celebrate…

— Jonathan Kozol

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

— Alexis Ohanian

“If we don't save the public schools, we're not going to save very much else." I use this line all the time.…

— Bruce Deitrick Price

“There were a few exotics among them—some South American boys, sons of Argentine beef barons, one or two Russians, and even a…

— George Orwell

“Because our current educational system now graduates students lacking even minimal historical knowledge, citizens are misled by outlandish charges Modernists make about…

— David Barton

“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

“The cool thing about being a middle-aged woman is that they asked me if I wanted the security guard inside of the…

— Lynda Barry

“The tenth plank in Karl Marx's Manifesto for destroying our kind of civilization advocated the establishment of "free education for all children…

— Ezra Taft Benson

“Our schools will not improve if we continue to focus only on reading and mathematics while ignoring the other studies that are…

— Diane Ravitch

“In the year 1212, sincere Christian parents of the medieval church decided to send their children to conquer Jerusalem and drive out…

— Gregg Harris

“a 1960 self-published broadside, A Business Man Looks at Communism, Koch claimed that “the Communists have infiltrated both the Democrat [sic] and…

— Jane Mayer

“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

“Can't you understand? That if you take a law like evolution and you make it a crime to teach it in the…

— Jerome Lawrence