Citizens Quote by Wendy McElroy

The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function…

— Jonathan Kozol

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'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

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

— P. J. O'Rourke

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

The whole idea of a public education was to train young people about how our system of government works, so they could be good…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

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

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

— Lisa Kennedy Montgomery

Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.

— May Sarton

If we truly believe in our public schools, then we have a moral responsibility to do better - to break the either-or mentality around…

— Barack Obama

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

When you say you don't think we should have public schools, they can't believe you mean that. You must mean that they should be…

— Dave Barry