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So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall. — Charles Schumer
I can't imagine going to an all-girls school. I went to a public school. — Amy Sedaris
If the government announced that it was going to allocate a vast tranche of education funding purely to the pupils at the best public schools,… — Will Self
I wanted to be a great white hunter, a prospector for gold, or a slave trader. But then, when I was eight, my parents sent… — Wilbur Smith
If you're poor, you don't often live near a good school. If it's a competitive public school program, our kids are not prepared to enter… — Sonia Sotomayor
I went to public schools, and while Gary was, like most American cities, racially segregated, it was at least socially integrated - a cross section… — Joseph Stiglitz
In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. Laws were enacted which excluded Jewish children from… — Jack Steinberger
I went to public school up until junior high. — Kristen Stewart
I was raised in Arizona, and I went to public school, and the extent of my knowledge of the civil-rights movement was the story of… — Emma Stone
Me, I was waiting tables of 13 and married at 19. I graduated from public schools, and taught elementary school. — Elizabeth Warren
Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion. — Mark Twain
The public school system is not about educating black children. Never has been. Inner-city schools are about social control. Period. They’re operated as holding pens—miniature… — Barack Obama
Almost all the students who make it to Caltech, one of the best scientific universities in the world, come from public schools. So it can… — Thomas Friedman
Now this is the first rule of fight club: There is nothing a blue collar Nobody in Oregon with a public school education can imagine… — Chuck Palahniuk
In many places it is literally not safe physically for youngsters to go to school. And in many schools, and its becoming almost generally true,… — Boyd K. Packer
As a means of dispensing formulated ignorance our boasted public school system is not without merit; it spreads out education sufficiently thin to give everyone… — Ambrose Bierce
I have been criticized throughout the course of my career for placing too much faith in the reliability of children's narratives; but I have almost… — Jonathan Kozol
As a teacher of fourth-graders in a public school, where corporal punishement was not allowed, she had years of violence stored up and was, truth… — Christopher Moore
The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of… — W. E. B. Du Bois
As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind… — Thomas A. Edison
When you wage war on the public schools, you're attacking the mortar that holds the community together. You're not a conservative, you're a vandal. — Garrison Keillor
Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection,… — Frederic Bastiat
If no one had ever challenged religious authority, there’d be no democracy, no public schools, women’s rights, improvements to science and medicine, evolution of slavery… — Mary Griffith
I hope that schools have changed since I was a little girl. My memory of the teaching of the public schools is that it showed… — Isadora Duncan

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