Best Public School Thoughts
247 Public School quotes by 208 unique authors
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I was a scholarship minor public school day boy at Ardingly College and later Whitgift School. Then, straight into work as a journalist - a…
— Neil Gaiman
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My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.
— Dave Grohl
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I'm used to a very busy schedule. Right now it revolves around training and preparing for Nationals in January. I'm usually at the rink from…
— Sasha Cohen
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Every public school in the country should have a nutrition-education curriculum. We're creating a pilot program at my son's school. We are looking to create…
— Cat Cora
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When you introduce competition into the public school system, most studies show that schools start to do better when they are competing for students.
— Bill Cosby
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All socio-political phenomena in the U.K. come laden with the baggage of a class-based theory or two attached to them. In the case of gay…
— Evan Davis
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If a person wants to be publicly gay, they should not be teaching in the public schools.
— Jim DeMint
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Well, when I moved to L.A. at 17, I had just come out of high school. I grew up and went to public school in…
— Eliza Dushku
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I went to public school all my life and all through college and I liked it.
— Dave Eggers
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As a teenager, I was always this strange mixture of kind of vice-captain of the rugby team and sensitive artist type the rest of the…
— Mark Haddon
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No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.
— Herbert Hoover
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The public school has become the established church of secular society.
— Ivan Illich
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During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time…
— Jonathan Kozol
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I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.
— Spike Lee
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When I went to school, you had to take art, you had to play an instrument. You had to play an instrument. But it's all…
— Spike Lee
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The public school system doesn't get everybody. Every generation has its rebels.
— Rush Limbaugh
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The majority of the high schools and the public schools in N.Y.C. don't even have band programs. Hip-hop in a lot of ways is an…
— Wynton Marsalis
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NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am…
— Christa McAuliffe
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In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and its a policy where they do not…
— Russell Means
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I remember as a kid having the offer of a scholarship, that it was going to be like going to Mars, and deciding to stay…
— Edward Norton
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Personally, I had a great education. My mum was a trained teacher, a Montessori teacher, and I know that I could not have written 'Eragon'…
— Christopher Paolini
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I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then…
— Colin Powell
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I was very much a product of the public-school system. There was only one other kid in my class who had parents not involved in…
— Daniel Radcliffe
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Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money.
— Phyllis Schlafly
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I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me.
— Charles Schumer
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