If the government is going to mandate levels and punish schools for failing, they should send that money to the school system. — Robert Duncan Copy Share Image
The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference between bolstering them up on the one… — Edmund Barton 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
It is imperative for US to parent our children and educate them outside of the school systems, as our education system was… — T.I Copy Share Image
“We stigmatize mistakes. And we're now running national educational systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make -- and the… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Today in America, we are trying to prepare students for a high tech world of constant change, but we are doing so… — Janet Napolitano Copy Share Image
Despite (or because of) a free public school system, millions of teenagers enter the work force without marketable skills. So why would… — Charles Platt Copy Share Image
In the current world, with the skills needed, dropouts [like no secondary education] are condemned to being members of the underclass. In… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
It's time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody's role is spelled out… — Albert Shanker Copy Share Image
I had several teachers who inspired me, in both the public school system and the Upward Bound program. I needed several, because… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
We need to drive down requirements for the schools. In the 19th century, we increased the quality of the schools by higher… — Donna Shalala Copy Share Image
Public schools are government-established, politician- and bureaucrat-controlled, fully politicized, taxpayer-supported, authoritarian socialist institutions. In fact, the public-school system is one of the… — Tom L. Johnson Copy Share Image
When I was superintendent of Denver Public Schools, I saw the potential of some of our best and brightest students cut short,… — Michael Bennet Copy Share Image
The school system is constructed to praise you if you get high grades. And if you get straight A's, you're the one… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Personally, I had a great education. My mum was a trained teacher, a Montessori teacher, and I know that I could not… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
In Chicago, you have an absence of strong family units, and that absence gets filled by gangs. You have a failure in… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
I grew up in a school system . . . where nobody understood the meaning of learning disorder. In the West Indies,… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
I don't think Michael Bloomberg would say that his greatest skill is delivering the speech. He would say he's more of a… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
I think it's a scandal what has been happening in the school system so far as lower income classes. The dropout rates,… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Folk music isn't owned by anybody. It is owned by everybody, like the national parks, the postal system, and the school system.… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
We decided that our first job was to help the schools serving the children from the very lowest income groups. Those families… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
My early wounds were the English school system among other things. It wasn't merely the discipline, it was the ways in which… — George Woodcock Copy Share Image
Earlier today, Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized the California school system, calling it disastrous. Arnold says California's schools are so bad that its graduates… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
There were only two other Chinese families in this town of 25,000, but to our parents, the determining factor was the quality… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
“To not know what to do during the vacations is just a proof that society and the school system has stolen your… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Anyone who would attempt the task of felling a virgin forest with a penknife would probably feel the same paralysis of despair… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
When you introduce competition into the public school system, most studies show that schools start to do better when they are competing… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
Through song you learn, and I think school systems need to learn that. Through the rhythm you can learn better, through melody,… — Steven Tyler Copy Share Image
If you are really standing up for the family, you then have to say, how do we change our school system, how… — Otis Moss III Copy Share Image
In the matter of the maintenance and rearing of children the Anarchists would neither institute the communistic nursery which the State Socialists… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
There is no accountability in the public school system - except for coaches. You know what happens to a losing coach. You… — Ross Perot Copy Share Image
Everything that we used to think got taught at home now seemingly has to be taught in the public school system, and… — Ann Richards Copy Share Image
Speaking as someone who didn't go through the U.K. school system, with all the culinary baggage that entails, I am inordinately fond… — Yotam Ottolenghi Copy Share Image
The other way that you democratize the food movement is through the public school system. If you can pay enough for the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The state of our educational system is a disgrace to our country. We have an elementary and secondary school system in which… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
Basically the school system sets you up with what it wants to set you up with. They're really good at it. I… — Jack Bowman Copy Share Image
As I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County school system, I could not help receiving the impression that I… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Om Schooled is the perfect manual for anyone who wants to start teaching yoga to kids. This is not just a theoretical… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image