America Quote by Barack Obama

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 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

We developed at the local school district level probably the best public school system in the world. Or it was until the Federal government…

— Ronald Reagan

America had an emphasis on the individual and so education became available for everyone.

— John Glenn

The whole idea of a public education was to train young people about how our system of government works, so they could be good…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

“Public schools were not only created in the interests of industrialism—they were created in the image of industrialism. In many ways, they reflect the…

— Ken Robinson

The system that had grown up in most states is that wealthy districts with an affluent population can afford to spend a lot more…

— William Weld

Most people believe that schools were good enough when they were children and that they are good enough now. But the dynamic growth of…

— Diane Ravitch

American [public] schools are failing because they are organized according to a bureaucratic, monopolistic model; their organizing principle is basically the same as that…

— David Boaz

After all, the American society has been also based on the premise of expanding education very early. That's been [one] of the main sources…

— Amartya Sen

We believed we could prepare our kids for a more competitive world. And today, our younger students have earned the highest math and reading…

— Barack Obama

America put more money into research, into the new and the unknown than any nation in history, and the same thing with education, and…

— John Glenn