18th century Quote by Nat Hentoff

As a child, I walked with my friends to Rosa Parks Elementary and then to Ben Franklin Middle School. I rode Muni to Galileo…

— London Breed

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…

— John Sergeant Wise

The takeover of Harvard in 1805 by the Unitarians is probably the most important intellectual event in American history - at least from the…

— Samuel Blumenfeld

Who was the founder of American education? John Dewey - you know that very well - card-carrying Communist. The American education system, in America…

— Rafael Cruz

I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me.

— Anonymous

“Theodore Roosevelt once said: “In 1880, I was graduated from Harvard University and then my education began.”

— Herbert N Cassion

The first generation of school reformers I talk about - nineteenth century education reformer Horace Mann, Catharine Beecher - they are true believers in…

— Dana Goldstein

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

— Amy Klobuchar

It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school.

— John Bright

“Independent study, community service, adventures and experience, large doses of privacy and solitude, a thousand different apprenticeships — the one-day variety or longer —…

— John Taylor Gatto

When I was in junior high, I went to a really hippy dippy Quaker school where we called our teachers by their first names…

— Pete Holmes

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