Authority Quote by Walter Karp

The public school system: "Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of…

— Thomas Jefferson

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

“The public education system did not promote the enlightenment of the individual, but rather suppressed critical thought and neurodiversity. It produced preformatted, standardized, and…

— Rajinder Jhol

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

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

A public-school system, if it means the providing of free education for those who desire it, is a noteworthy and beneficent achievement of modern…

— Anonymous

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

Anyone who fears, as I do, that today's public schools are dangerously close to being irrelevant must read this book. The authors provide a…

— John Merrow

“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

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

Restoring prayer ... will scarcely at this date solve the grievous public school problem. Public schools are expensive and massive centers for cultural and…

— Murray Rothbard

“The question is not, Does or doesn't public schooling create a public? The question is, What kind of public does it create? A conglomerate…

— Neil Postman