Captives Quote by David T. Kearns

It's time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody's role is spelled out in advance…

— Albert Shanker

Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money.

— Phyllis Schlafly

When it comes to public school education, we have been unwilling to measure our results. We've been unwilling to pay based on performance. We…

— Michael Bloomberg

The plain, unvarnished truth is that public education is a shoddy, fraudulent piece of goods sold t to the public at an astronomical price.…

— Samuel Blumenfeld

We need to end the government monopoly in education by transferring power from bureaucracies and unions to families. The era of defining public education…

— Jeb Bush

American [public] schools are failing because they are organized according to a bureaucratic, monopolistic model; their organizing principle is basically the same as that…

— David Boaz

Public Schools too often fail because they are shielded from the very force that improves performance and sparks innovation in nearly every other human…

— Bob Lutz

The education system is financially crippling the economy that it's designed to serve.

— Steve Fowler

The public is not cognizant of the real value of education, and does not realize that education as a social force is not receiving…

— Anonymous

It is possible to have a public education system that works.

— James Wolfensohn

As somebody who visits countless schools, I see firsthand the dire situation our educational system faces.

— Jarrett J. Krosoczka

We're throwing money down a rat hole drain of public education! We lead the world in public education spending. We lead the world in…

— Rush Limbaugh