America Quote by Tom L. Johnson

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

What are called 'public schools' in many of America's wealthy communities aren't really 'public' at all. In effect, they're private schools, whose tuition is…

— Robert Reich

Public school is a place of detention for children placed in the care of teachers who are afraid of the principal, principals who are…

— Nate

Public school - where the human mind is drilled and manipulated into submission to various social and moral spooks, and thus fitted to continue…

— Emma Goldman

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

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

“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

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

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

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

I think there are really are some public schools, incredibly successful public schools, that are inculcating a real educational ethic in their students.

— Charles Best

Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to…

— Janet Napolitano