Big Quote by Alissa Quart

It's time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody's role is spelled out in advance…

— Albert Shanker

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 purest examples…

— Tom L. Johnson

Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful,…

— Bobby Scott

The public is not cognizant of the real value of education, and does not realize that education as a social force is not receiving…

— Anonymous

The schools can't cover all the values that go along with how you handle your money. For example, a financial literacy class might not…

— Michelle Singletary

It's time to update traditional public schools, charter schools, home schools, online schools and parochial schools. Let the dollars follow the child instead of…

— Bobby Jindal

Public schools helped create the idea of America and inculcate Americans with a few rudiments of knowledge. To judge by that very American item,…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money.

— Phyllis Schlafly

Well, just as in the quality of public schools, there is massive disparity and the compensation given to the public school teachers.

— Charles Best

What are called 'public schools' in many of America's wealthy communities aren't really 'public' at all. In effect, they're private schools, whose tuition is…

— Robert Reich

I'm a product of public schools. They are resource-challenged, and when you take those dollars away from public schools and send them to private…

— Raja Krishnamoorthi

The money in the schools overpowers the principles of the purpose.

— Miroslav Vitous