Brutal Quote by Isadora Duncan

Public schools in the late '80s and early '90s were a total mess... we felt that if I was going to have a good…

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

I look back and see the kids who made it through school - it made a huge difference in their lives, which made me…

— Denise Juneau

Now, I have nothing against the public school system as it is presently organized, once you allow the humor of its basic assumption about…

— Shirley Jackson

Anyone who fears, as I do, that today's public schools are dangerously close to being irrelevant must read this book. The authors provide a…

— John Merrow

I was on the board of Teach for America. And we transformed a failed public school system in the City of New Orleans, probably…

— Steve Scalise

I went to big, broken, under-resourced public schools, but we had a real sense of community, because those were days in the '50s and…

— Deval Patrick

I was raised in public schools, but from the word go, I never believed what the public schools were teaching me. Nor did I…

— Peter Brook

I'm not a fan of public school at all; I think it's one of the greatest catastrophes of American history.

— KRS-One

I grew up in the public schools, my mom taught in them, and then my daughter is in them.

— Amy Klobuchar

As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create…

— Dan Simmons

I was very, very unhappy with even the so-called very elite schools. The one thing I've always done every day with my children is…

— Marva Collins

I hope to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we don't have public schools. The churches will have…

— Jerry Falwell