Classroom Quote by P. J. O'Rourke

Instead of unfairly demonizing teachers, we should be working with them to find solutions to the problems in our schools and make sure every…

— Albio Sires

Well, just as in the quality of public schools, there is massive disparity and the compensation given to the public school teachers.

— Charles Best

I think the problem with schools is not too many incentives but too few. Because of tenure, teachers' unions, and the fact that teachers…

— Steven Levitt

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

Often times, when we talk about improving our public schools, it is easy to come back to the question of money. Are schools basically…

— Kristen Soltis Anderson

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

There's a perception that's been put out into the marketplace by No Child Left Behind that schools aren't doing enough for kids.

— Mark Jackson

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

— Phyllis Schlafly

As the son of a union activist and a lifelong Democrat, I've always thought that privatizing our public schools is not the answer. We…

— Eli Broad

The problem is not that public schools do not work well, but rather that they do. The first goal and primary function of schools…

— Wendy McElroy

There is a tendency to throw computers at third world problems, which I think is often a distraction. Putting computers in the schools is…

— Terry Winograd

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