Best Public Education Quotations
94 Public Education quotes by 69 unique authors
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The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same…
— H. L. Mencken
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Most teachers have little control over school policy or curriculum or choice of texts or special placement of students, but most have a great deal…
— Tracy Kidder
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Public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.
— Tracy Kidder
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To me, money is a means to do good. I reached a point in my life where I had enjoyed tremendous business success that afforded…
— Eli Broad
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Many states can no longer afford to support public education, public benefits, public services without doing something about the exorbitant costs that mass incarceration have…
— Bryan Stevenson
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All around the United States of America - in the cities and the counties - our public education is suffering and has been suffering. Cuts,…
— Bill Cosby
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Instead of unfairly demonizing teachers, we should be working with them to find solutions to the problems in our schools and make sure every child…
— Albio Sires
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To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America held back by mass ignorance and mass…
— Timothy Noah
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We need to end the government monopoly in education by transferring power from bureaucracies and unions to families. The era of defining public education as…
— Jeb Bush
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Public education must be viewed from the lens of providing each child with the learning environment that best meets his or her needs. If we…
— Jeb Bush
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I think there is widespread agreement that there is a crisis in public education.
— Mitch Kapor
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All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.
— Earl Warren
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In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.
— Bobby Scott
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We have seen a central government taking more and more control over public education, over communications, over transportation, over every detail of our daily lives.
— Robert W. Welch, Jr.
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Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of…
— Alcee Hastings
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Teach For America provides one of the most critical pipelines for bringing new talent into public education.
— Eli Broad
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Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to worship God in…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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Many of those who argue for vouchers say that they simply want to use competition to improve public education. I don't think it works that…
— Jonathan Kozol
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We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of separate but equal has no place.
— Earl Warren
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