Quotes about Public School

Study after study affirms what I saw in the classroom every day as superintendent of Denver Public Schools: Nothing makes a bigger difference for student learning than great teaching. Votes: 4

The public school has become the established church of secular society. Votes: 3

My primary and secondary education was provided by the Highland Park Public School System. Votes: 3

My time at the Denver Public Schools taught me there is no harder, or more important, job than being a teacher. Votes: 3

When you wage war on the public schools, you're attacking the mortar that holds the community together. You're not a conservative, you're a vandal. Votes: 3

Character issues such as drug abuse are not exclusive to Detroit Public Schools. My reference to substance abuse, not intended to focus on any particular school district, was simply used to illustrate this position. Votes: 3

My appearance on 'Public School' garnered a smattering of fan mail from girls, which was good, and letters from mothers saying I was the sort of boy they'd like their daughters to go out with - which was not quite as good. Votes: 3

I am old enough to remember when America's K-12 public schools were the best in the world. I am a proud graduate of them, and I credit much of my success to what I learned in Detroit Public Schools and at Michigan State University. Votes: 3

When I was superintendent of Denver Public Schools, I saw the potential of some of our best and brightest students cut short, punished for the actions of others - kids who had grown up and done well in our school system, and kids who know no other home but America. This is unacceptable. Votes: 3

My dad was in the Indian Army. He died in a terrorist attack in Kashmir in 1994. After that, my mum and I settled in Noida. I went to Delhi Public School in Noida and then to Shri Ram College of Commerce in Delhi University. It was in college that I realised I wanted to be on the stage and in front of the camera. Votes: 3

Lucifer is God in the public school system Votes: 2

Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality. Votes: 2

Parents give up their rights when they drop the children off at public school. Votes: 2

Nowadays, with history not being taught anymore in American public schools, self-esteem is taking its place. Votes: 2

That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down. Votes: 2

Historically, much of the motivation for public schooling has been to stifle variety and institute social control. Votes: 2

Doesn't anything socialistic make you want to throw up? Like great public schools, or health insurance for all? Votes: 2

Our public schools began as ministries of the church; now it is time to return them to the Lord. Votes: 2

I do not believe any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States. Votes: 2

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him. Votes: 2

Whenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational "excellence," I think of what an improvement it would be if our public schools could just achieve mediocrity. Votes: 2

Public school - where the human mind is drilled and manipulated into submission to various social and moral spooks, and thus fitted to continue our system of exploitation and oppression. Votes: 2

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it. Votes: 2

No matter how good a public school teacher, he or she will always be required to teach the state's values and the state's perspective on subjects from sex to history and biology. Votes: 2

The public school system: "Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it instead into meek subservience to authority." Votes: 2

Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying. Votes: 2

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 which we call - in enemy nations - 'state indoctrination.' Votes: 2

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals. Votes: 2

When I went to school, you had to take art, you had to play an instrument. You had to play an instrument. But it's all degraded since then. I do not know what kind of nation we are that is cutting art, music, and gym out of the public-school curriculum. Votes: 2

Your children will go to public school and they will be trained for somewhere around 15,000 hours in ungodly secular thought. And then they'll go to Sunday school and they'll color a picture of Noah's ark. And you think that's going to stand against the lies that they are being told? Votes: 2

The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of polite society; if is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment from which forms the secret of civilization. Votes: 2

I have been criticized throughout the course of my career for placing too much faith in the reliability of children's narratives; but I have almost always found that children are a great deal more reliable in telling us what actually goes on in public school than many of the adult experts who develop policies that shape their destinies. Votes: 2

I'm a very big public school advocate. Votes: 1

I can't imagine going to an all-girls school. I went to a public school. Votes: 1

I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school. Votes: 1

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool. Votes: 1

To put it simply, school readiness means creating in this country a public love of children. Votes: 1

Our teachers at the public school level are the most underpaid for the importance of their job in America. Votes: 1

I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated. Votes: 1

I was born and raised in California and benefited from California's excellent public schools, from kindergarten through medical school. Votes: 1

Often times the public school teachers are ridiculed or they are made to feel inferior but this is really undeserved. Votes: 1

Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money. Votes: 1

If you want a good education, go to private schools. If you can't afford it, tough luck. You can go to the public school. Votes: 1

People think I have the benefit of a public school education. I have this suave and debonair label, but really, I'm as common as muck. Votes: 1

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family. Votes: 1

I remember the mentoring experiences of some teachers that I had, like a second term home room teacher in public school that really was very helpful to me. Votes: 1

You are undoubtedly acquainted with my Reputation, and as for my Penmanship it must speak for itself; this is to desire your Approbation to keep a public school. Votes: 1

I'm entirely uneducated. I went to public school - public in the American sense - a blue-collar, working-class school. I never got a scholarship, I left when I was 15, never did any exams. Votes: 1

The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unions. The problem is not underfunding or lack of computer equipment. The problem is your damn kids. Votes: 1

High school was interesting, because I went from a public school middle school to an academy where the first year we were doing Latin, chemistry, biology. I mean, I was woefully unprepared for the type of study. Votes: 1

Second, when comparing private school and public school test scores, it's like apples and oranges. Public schools have to take everyone, but private schools can be selective. It's not accurate or fair to compare the job they do. Votes: 1

I was raised in Arizona, and I went to public school, and the extent of my knowledge of the civil-rights movement was the story of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. I wonder how much my generation knows. Votes: 1

In the U.S., the term 'general aviation' means its exact opposite, the way 'public school' does in England. An English public school is private and, on top of that, exclusive. Likewise, general-aviation airports in the U.S. are for everyone but the general public. Votes: 1

My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didn't go to college. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard. Votes: 1

I worked as a teacher in the public school system in New York City for several years, and I was a victim of the layoffs, you know, in the mid-'70s. And then I worked as a sales engineer for a company in New Jersey that was selling industrial filtration equipment. Votes: 1

As a teenager, I was always this strange mixture of kind of vice-captain of the rugby team and sensitive artist type the rest of the time. I was sent away to this public school in the middle of nowhere, and I think we managed to completely miss out on normal youth culture. Votes: 1

Well, first of all, I grew up in New York City, going to first a public school, then a private school, and when I got to the private school in Manhattan, I learned of what we called 'The Promised Land,' which are the Hamptons. I've always had an affinity for the Hamptons. Votes: 1

During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the classroom. In low-income neighborhoods like Sunset Park, where I taught, students as young as five years old enter school affected by the stresses often created by poverty: domestic violence, drug abuse, gang activity. Votes: 1

I had no interest in sports so I didn't make friends in that traditional way where kids are in public school and they go and they join clubs, and play sports. So I kind of had to find my own way to make friends and get attention and so I just was the class clown. Votes: 1

It makes sense that we came up with our public school system during the Industrial Revolution because it's like everybody is a factory worker, eating their terrible food and going back to the room where you're silent and listening to an idiot. That's an epitomizing idea, getting called 'Nothing' for your whole high school experience. Votes: 1

Personally, I had a great education. My mum was a trained teacher, a Montessori teacher, and I know that I could not have written 'Eragon' if I had gone into a public school system because I would have just been too busy attending classes and doing homework - I wouldn't have had the time to write. Votes: 1

My high school wasn't a big public school; it was tiny. There were 36 girls in my graduating class. We were a big group of girls that by the time senior year came along couldn't wait to get away from school fast enough but we loved each other. It's really fun to see the girls at reunions now. Votes: 1

I went to public school my whole life, graduated high school with my class. Growing up, I'd go to an audition, my friends would go to soccer practice and we'd all reconvene and hang out in our neighborhood. When I would book something, I would never tell my friends. Acting was just fun. I was a kid, I wasn't jaded. Votes: 1

Writing songs out of my faith was a real natural progression. I grew up singing in my dad's choir and singing with my family. Christian music became the music that I identified myself with and was a way that I expressed my faith. Even at a public school I would take my Christian music in and play it for my friends. Votes: 1

I'm not a typical public school boy. Votes: 0

Public school system status quo is indefensible. Votes: 0

I went to public school up until junior high. Votes: 0

I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education, Votes: 0

I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education. Votes: 0

I was home-schooled. My mom wasn't a fan of public school systems. Votes: 0

I was ridiculed in public school for being smart. A teacher's pet. Votes: 0

The public school system doesn't get everybody. Every generation has its rebels. Votes: 0

My mom is a public school teacher and works with third grade students. Votes: 0

Disinterested public service has become, just so... what's the phrase, 'old school.' Votes: 0

I attended public school with the same group of kids from K through 12. Votes: 0

Public school teachers are the new priesthood while traditional religion is ridiculed and maligned. Votes: 0

I failed public speaking in grade school, 'cause I was so nervous and scared. Votes: 0

somewhere about the eighteenth century, history tacitly replaced religion as the school of public morals. Votes: 0

In my mind, there is no reason public school reform should be a partisan issue. Votes: 0

But first I want to get my master's degree at Columbia's School of International Public Affairs. Votes: 0

Growing up, I was always in normal public school which is very important in my eyes. Votes: 0

I was very, very shy in public and school, and quite loud and brash at home. Votes: 0

I went to public school all my life and all through college and I liked it. Votes: 0

Unfortunately, too many public school officials believe that cameras are needed to enforce order and discipline. Votes: 0

I hated speaking in public. I would miss school just so I wouldn't have to do it. Votes: 0

The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school. Votes: 0

When I first came to Oxford, I struggled to feel comfortable in an Anglican, public school-dominated institution. Votes: 0

I went to a catholic public school St Helens and learned English by watching bugs bunny cartoons. Votes: 0

In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly. Votes: 0

That thing, multiculturalism, has basically taken over the curriculum, or what is taught in the public school system. Votes: 0

That thing, multiculturalism, has basically taken over the curriculum, or what is taught in the public school system. Votes: 0

It wasn't the Supreme Court that expelled God from our public school classrooms. It was the textbook publishers. Votes: 0

Me, I was waiting tables of 13 and married at 19. I graduated from public schools, and taught elementary school. Votes: 0

Public school felt like prison - cinderblock walls, fluorescent lights, metal lockers. It was so sterile and unstimulating. Votes: 0

I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system. Votes: 0

I was at a public school until I was in sixth grade when I moved to New York. Votes: 0

I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system. Votes: 0

Going to public school is like living in bubble, you have no concept of what other people do. Votes: 0

The public scrutiny element they don't teach you in film school. So few people are ever subjected to it. Votes: 0

As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then. Votes: 0

When I was sent to public school, I was relieved that I could wear what I wanted to wear. Votes: 0

It seems the public in Europe has not yet learnt that most girls in India today go to school. Votes: 0

I'm a journalist, so my friends are journalists: magazines, newspapers, even public radio. Nobody had their kids in public school. Votes: 0

A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system. Votes: 0

I didn't go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen. Votes: 0

In my freshman year in high school, I went to the only public high school in Boston with a theatre program. Votes: 0

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him Votes: 0

All four of my grandparents were educators, my mom was a school nurse, and I went through the public school system. Votes: 0

I'm not the only Labour MP who sent their child to public school but I'm the only one who's questioned about it. Votes: 0

I grew up in a little cul-de-sac in the suburbs and went to public school. I went to Costco on the weekends. Votes: 0

I didn't want to get stuck in pretty, public school roles, or I knew I'd end up as some sort of caricature. Votes: 0

The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school. Votes: 0

I grew up in a little cul-de-sac in the suburbs and went to public school. I went to Costco on the weekends Votes: 0

I have realized why corrupt politicians do nothing to improve the quality of public school education. They are terrified of educated voters. Votes: 0

It should go without saying that there are as many working-class people who hold socially liberal views as there are public-school bigots. Votes: 0

Going back to high school and college, I believed I would be involved in public service. I literally could not conceptualize anything else. Votes: 0

We're spending, on average, three times more for prison than for public-school pupils. That's the dumbest investment policy. It doesn't make us safer. Votes: 0

If you could find a major city that actually had a functioning, good public school system, you should buy all the real estate. Votes: 0

Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school. Votes: 0

As more government functions are privatized, we find political leaders defunding the public school system, shifting government funds to the private, for-profit school industry. Votes: 0

When you introduce competition into the public school system, most studies show that schools start to do better when they are competing for students. Votes: 0

I'm convinced many of America's heroes are public school teachers and administrators. Many of these people do what they do because of their faith. Votes: 0

For the primary and secondary school years, we will aid public schools serving low-income families and assist students in both public and private schools. Votes: 0

I'm not sure Betsy DeVos has ever spent a day in a public school. And I don't - I'm pretty sure Donald Trump hasn't. Votes: 0

I came from a very comfortable, middle-class family living in Highland Park, Illinois.Really growing up in a Jewish community with a fabulous public school. Votes: 0

I think my formative experiences were really in junior high, where at a typical public school we were doing little genetic experiments, very classic experiments. Votes: 0

There were only two other Chinese families in this town of 25,000, but to our parents, the determining factor was the quality of the public school system. Votes: 0

Many public-school children seem to know only two dates"”1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion. Votes: 0

Well, when I moved to L.A. at 17, I had just come out of high school. I grew up and went to public school in Boston. Votes: 0

Anybody who knows the public school teacher world (knows) there's not a lot of money in teaching. You do it because you love what you do. Votes: 0

This is followed by laughter because we're in high school, which means we're predictable and almost everything is funny, especially if it's someone else's public humiliation. Votes: 0

I find it incredible and outrageous that public and school libraries are being forced to close - we'll all pay the price in the long term. Votes: 0

The traditional religious right's failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more extreme dominionist school. Votes: 0

If you're poor, you don't often live near a good school. If it's a competitive public school program, our kids are not prepared to enter those programs. Votes: 0

[If Republicans] got to put their kids into public school. They got to take public health. They would become libertarian faster than you could say Ayn Rand. Votes: 0

The school is a political prize of the highest importance. It cannot be deprived of its political character as long as it remains a public and compulsory institution. Votes: 0

For decades, the public school system failed too many children, so we passed the No Child Left Behind Act and demanded schools show results in return for money. Votes: 0

What is a literary festival? Imagine a sort of cross between school and church. There are no actual festivities; what there are is a lot of public readings. Votes: 0

It is true, there was no public-school system, and the reason for it was very plain. The wealth of the upper classes enabled them to have private tutors. Votes: 0

Education is huge for me. I went to public school until I turned thirteen, and was lucky enough to afford college once I became successful as an actress. Votes: 0

First, I used some of my own experiences and observations from attending a public high school. Secondly, I joined in some Internet chat rooms for gays and lesbians. Votes: 0

I went to public school in L.A., so I felt like I'd been in a coma for three years. I woke up, and moved to New York. Votes: 0

Given the brief - and generally misleading - exposure most people have to mathematics at school, raising the public awareness of mathematics will always be an uphill battle. Votes: 0

I want my kids to be in an environment where they can talk about values in a way that you can't always do in a public school setting. Votes: 0

I went to a local high school in Lancaster. Not much I can say about it; it was pretty much your typical public high school back in Pennsylvania. Votes: 0

My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of a public school background than I did. Votes: 0

A school prayer amendment would confer upon public school boards a power the First Amendment now denies to Congress and the states, that is, the power to establish religion. Votes: 0

Despite (or because of) a free public school system, millions of teenagers enter the work force without marketable skills. So why would anyone expect them to be well paid? Votes: 0

I remember as a kid having the offer of a scholarship, that it was going to be like going to Mars, and deciding to stay in my public school. Votes: 0

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 of socialism existing in America. Votes: 0

Albuquerque is my home. I want my kids and all of our children to be able to go to any public or charter school and receive an excellent education. Votes: 0

I went to public school for like, one day. I don't get it. Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing. Votes: 0

I'm very grateful and fully aware that 90 percent of actors are not working. Going from public school teacher to a show like 'Grey's Anatomy', I love what I do. Votes: 0

I went to public school, elementary through high school. I went to homecoming, to football games, pep rallies, I got detention, I got an F. I've done it all. Votes: 0

I miss my friends in public school, but it's kind of a part of something that you have to give up. I'd rather perform than go to public school. Votes: 0

I was a scholarship minor public school day boy at Ardingly College and later Whitgift School. Then, straight into work as a journalist - a wonderful thing for a writer. Votes: 0

The Christian community has a golden opportunity to train an army of dedicated teachers who can invade the public school classrooms and use them to influence the nation for Christ. Votes: 0

I was going to public school in the post-World War II, the grey doldrum years. But I was in this extraordinary environment of Manhattan, of Greenwich Village, of bohemian parents. Votes: 0

The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference between bolstering them up on the one hand and letting them alone of the other. Votes: 0

I was very much a product of the public-school system. There was only one other kid in my class who had parents not involved in the stock market or law. Votes: 0

Everything that we used to think got taught at home now seemingly has to be taught in the public school system, and something is going to get lost in the process. Votes: 0

But Maine is a special place: there's something about untold acres of natural beauty in concert with an underachieving public school system that leads to deviations from the customary and commonsensical. Votes: 0

This notion of public-school doors being barred to God would have confounded not only the founding fathers but also those who attended American public schools as recently as the early 1960s. Votes: 0

I went to public school my whole life. It was a performing arts school, so I can't say if it was a typical experience or not, because it's all I know. Votes: 0

Boy is my wife stupid. It takes her and hour and a half to watch 60 minutes. My daughters no bargain either. In public school she was voted most likely to conceive. Votes: 0

My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system. Votes: 0

One fact we're particularly proud of is that there are more people learning languages on Duolingo in the US than there are people learning languages in the entire US public school system. Votes: 0

The modern public school derived from a philosophy of freedom reflected in the First Amendment ... The non-sectarian or secular public school was the means of reconciling freedom in general with religious freedom. Votes: 0

Let's pass more gun control laws and buy metal detectors for every public school in the land - anything but tell kids that life is sacred, because its Creator deems it so. Votes: 0

Now this is the first rule of fight club: There is nothing a blue collar Nobody in Oregon with a public school education can imagine that a million-billion people haven't already done... Votes: 0

I was sent to the regular public schools until I had to go to Belmont Hill. Because I wasn't doing anything. The public school was nothing, just a total waste of time. Votes: 0

There was one public school for boys, and one for girls, but Jewish children were admitted in limited numbers - only ten to a hundred; and even the lucky ones had their troubles. Votes: 0

Luckily, the public school system that I was in had a really great drama program, so I plunged into that. It really sort of kept me afloat because I was bored in school. Votes: 0

The system that had grown up in most states is that wealthy districts with an affluent population can afford to spend a lot more on their public school systems than the poorer districts. Votes: 0

Now, I have nothing against the public school system as it is presently organized, once you allow the humor of its basic assumption about how it is possible to teach things to children.... Votes: 0

Well, my mom taught public school music for almost 40 years. And she's about 5 feet - and very mighty. And she would control her kids a lot by giving them the eye, or the stare. Votes: 0

I think a lot of people were like, "Oh, you're 13, you're gonna rebel." But I was never in public school and I was never really forced to do much of anything, as a kid. Votes: 0

I grew up in Queens, in New York City, in a middle class Jewish family. My mother was a public school teacher, my father was a lawyer. They were Democrats - kind of middle-of-the-road democrats. Votes: 0

NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space. Votes: 0

I've noticed that my resolutions involve me not doing stuff that I wasn't going to do anyway so here's something more positive. I'm going to retrain as a Latin teacher in a provincial public school. Votes: 0

I can only speak for myself, but public school did nothing for me musically. I got the impression a musical career was frowned upon. But in the arts, resistance can often be the strongest inspiration. Votes: 0

When I was a child, I grew up speaking French, I mean, in a French public school. So my first contact with literature was in French, and that's the reason why I write in French. Votes: 0

But after all we are not children, not illiterate juvenile delinquents, not English public school boys who after a night of homosexual romps have to endure the paradox of reading the Ancients in expurgated versions. Votes: 0

Christians today are forced to support, with their tax money, the establishment of another religious faith that stands opposed to everything they believe. The new state church has taken the form of the public school. Votes: 0

At my public school I had hated every other face for fear the owner was a lord, at university, I was to court the rich while doubting whether there should be great inequalities between incomes. Votes: 0