Public School Quotes
247 quotes by 214 authors
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I'm not the only Labour MP who sent their child to public school but I'm the only one who's questioned about it.
— Diane Abbott
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My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My…
— Ben Affleck
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Frankly, I'm not sure how far I would get if I attended public school today. It's not just that public schools aren't producing the results…
— Eli Broad
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I am old enough to remember when America's K-12 public schools were the best in the world. I am a proud graduate of them, and…
— Eli Broad
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High school was interesting, because I went from a public school middle school to an academy where the first year we were doing Latin, chemistry,…
— Kyle Chandler
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From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a…
— Dick Cheney
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If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their…
— Susan B. Anthony
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My mother went to Radcliffe, and rather than just trying to get rich, she wanted to be a teacher and taught for over 30 years…
— Ben Affleck
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It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public school that feeling…
— E. M. Forster
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Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?
— B.F. Skinner
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From my grandfather's father, I learned to dispense with attendance at public schools, and to enjoy good teachers at home, and to recognize that on…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Whenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational "excellence," I think of what an improvement it would be if our public schools could…
— Thomas Sowell
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That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.
— Evelyn Waugh
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The problem with intelligent-design theory, is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable. Not being susceptible to contradicting evidence, it is…
— George Will
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I do not believe any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States.
— Thomas A. Edison
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Historically, much of the motivation for public schooling has been to stifle variety and institute social control.
— Hugh Jackman
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Public Schools too often fail because they are shielded from the very force that improves performance and sparks innovation in nearly every other human enterprise…
— Bob Lutz
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The public school system: "Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual…
— Walter Karp
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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 of…
— Tom L. Johnson
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Creationists who want religious ideas taught as scientific fact in public schools continue to adapt to courtroom defeats by hiding their true aims under ever…
— Eugenie Scott
Who Wrote These Public School Quotes
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