Assumption Quote by Shirley Jackson

I am increasingly ready to junk the public school system.

— Charles Murray

Public education is a good foundation on which to build a better life for each of us. And if we want to prove to…

— Bill Cosby

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

— James Wolfensohn

If you just believe in our democracy, and you want an informed electorate, public schools are in your interest, and I think our country…

— Charles Best

There really shouldn't be public schools, should there?

— Lisa Kennedy Montgomery

“[The public school system is] usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise…

— Walter Karp

I've been an advocate for public education for a long time. It's the way people are able to improve their lives.

— Mary Burke

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

Society is so divided in its perception of public school people. Most people who went to public school behave in the right way, but…

— Jack Whitehall

Public schools are government-established, politician- and bureaucrat-controlled, fully politicized, taxpayer-supported, authoritarian socialist institutions. In fact, the public-school system is one of the purest examples…

— Tom L. Johnson

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

“Public education does not serve a public. It creates a public. And in creating the right kind of public, the schools contribute toward strengthening…

— Neil Postman