Attitude Quote by Steve Forbes

Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. The average American [should be] content with their humble role in life, because…

— William Torrey Harris

You look at the trajectories; and as our schools have declined, you see the other alternatives increase, private school, home schooling, all of the…

— Davis Guggenheim

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

“The home-schooling movement has quietly grown to a size where one and half million young people are being educated entirely by their own parents;…

— John Taylor Gatto

“The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school. That's why we've lowered the kindergarten age year after year until…

— Ray Bradbury

Apparently almost anyone can do a better job of educating children than our so-called 'educators' in the public schools. Children who are home-schooled by…

— Thomas Sowell

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

— P. J. O'Rourke

Public education has served as a check on the power of parents, and this is another powerful reason for maintaining it.

— John Goodlad

There’s a belief now that the problem with our schools is parents, that if we just had better parents we would have better performing…

— Michelle Rhee

The government has convinced parents that at some point it's no longer their responsibility. And in fact, they force them, in many respects, to…

— Rick Santorum

Home schoolers do not wish to force other parents to home school. Gun owners do not insist that others buy guns, or that hunting…

— Grover Norquist

The motives of these parents vary, many parents don't like the curriculum being taught to their kids, or are wary of the threat of…

— Ernest Istook