America Quote by Jared Polis

I am increasingly ready to junk the public school system.

— Charles Murray

Public schools helped create the idea of America and inculcate Americans with a few rudiments of knowledge. To judge by that very American item,…

— P. J. O'Rourke

America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.

— P. J. O'Rourke

American education is still the wonder of the world, and we must open the schoolhouse doors, not close them.

— Lincoln Chafee

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

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

— Jarrett J. Krosoczka

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

We developed at the local school district level probably the best public school system in the world. Or it was until the Federal government…

— Ronald Reagan

Out of the public schools comes the greatness of the nation.

— Mark Twain

Our schools have made our state great, and we have to make our public schools the best they can be.

— Roy Cooper

I'm not a very good advertisement for the American school system.

— David Brinkley

I don't like to have the federal government start pushing its weight deeper and deeper into our schools. Let the states and localities do…

— Mitt Romney