School System Quotes

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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
I pretty much left full-time, formal education when I was 11, so that was when I was taken out of the school system... The longest… — Daniel Radcliffe
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
Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money. — Phyllis Schlafly
We need to drive down requirements for the schools. In the 19th century, we increased the quality of the schools by higher education saying, 'You… — Donna Shalala
I don't think Michael Bloomberg would say that his greatest skill is delivering the speech. He would say he's more of a nuts-and-bolts mayor-picking up… — Eliot Spitzer
The public school system is not about educating black children. Never has been. Inner-city schools are about social control. Period. Theyâ€™re operated as holding pensâ€”miniature… — Barack Obama
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
A public-school system, if it means the providing of free education for those who desire it, is a noteworthy and beneficent achievement of modern times;… — John Gresham Machen
The science fair has long been a favorite educational tool in the American school system, and for a good reason: Your teachers hate you. — Dave Barry
Luckily, the public school system that I was in had a really great drama program, so I plunged into that. It really sort of kept… — Allison Scagliotti
When I was mayor of New York, my views changed. I began as mayor of New York City thinking that I could reform the New… — Rudy Giuliani
When I was superintendent of Denver Public Schools, I saw the potential of some of our best and brightest students cut short, punished for the… — Michael Bennet
As more government functions are privatized, we find political leaders defunding the public school system, shifting government funds to the private, for-profit school industry. — Hank Johnson
We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society. — Xavier Niel
Despite (or because of) a free public school system, millions of teenagers enter the work force without marketable skills. So why would anyone expect them… — Charles Platt
It is true, there was no public-school system, and the reason for it was very plain. The wealth of the upper classes enabled them to… — John Sergeant Wise
We were the first urban school system in the country to wire all of our schools for the Internet. — Thomas Menino
My primary and secondary education was provided by the Highland Park Public School System. — James Cronin
There were only two other Chinese families in this town of 25,000, but to our parents, the determining factor was the quality of the public… — Steven Chu

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