Top 1200 Public Schools Quotes & Sayings - Page 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.

You [ Peter R. Breggin] have basically implied that they've turned our schools into something other than schools. What do you think the government has in mind by turning our schools into little clinics?

I grew up going to public school, and they were huge public schools. I went to a school that had 3,200 kids, and I had grade school classes with 40-some kids. Discipline was rigid. Most of the learning was rote. It worked.

So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall.

We all know that great leaders can create great successes...success for the Chicago public education fund is to bring great leaders into Chicago's public schools.

I believe the public schools are the greatest cultural influence in this country.

I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.

Much of the criticism centered around Betsy DeVos focuses on her lack of experience with public schools. While she has shown some interest in 'protecting' students from the non-existent threat of grizzlies wandering onto their campuses, she has never run, taught in, attended, or sent a child to a public school.

There's no silver bullet when it comes to helping all children achieve. Great public schools are our best shot.

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

Public schools are where the next generation of leaders are educated and where cultural exchange will take place.

[Betsy DeVos] does care about charter schools, which are public schools. She does care about choice, which is a perfectly legitimate thing to care about. It's because it's the one issue where the Democratic donor base was really energized, which was the teacher unions.

As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.

Encourage public schools to teach American children how to code just after they learn to multiply.

Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety.

People like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have been very busy educating America about just how much socialism we have, from Social Security to Medicare to public schools to public universities, and how much we love that. The truth is that there is no pure socialist or capitalist economy on earth.

To restore our public schools, we must put an end to the selfish agenda of the union bosses.

[The notion of separating church and state with such policies as disallowing prayer in public schools] is a deception from Satan.

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

It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ideal of schools for everybody by having schools without education.

The trouble is not that schools don't work; they do. They're excellent machines for achieving historically accepted purposes. In suburban schools are children of the rich, who grow up to privilege and anesthetic oblivion to pain - and who then use the servants produced by ghetto schools.

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

I started working at age thirteen. I'm a product of public schools, I'm a product of a public university. I started my first company when I was 21. I've subsequently never worked for anybody else. I started that first business when I was still in college.

Because we are unqualifiedly and without reservation against any system of denominational schools, maintained by the adherents of any creed with the help of state aid, therefore, we as strenuously insist that the public schools shall be free from sectarian influences, and above all, free from any attitude of hostility to the adherents of any particular creed.

You won't believe what our kids are eating in the public schools. It's just nuts.

My top priority is to stop the cuts to our public schools.

The logic is that when you provide schools or any social service to people, they have no choice. They have to take what you give them, because they don't have the money to pay for schools themselves; that's why you provide schools in the first place.

The vast majority of students in this country will continue to attend public schools.

Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools.

My son William is only nine but he's had four public schools so far, one in Cornwall, one when I was at Sheffield, one in Beckenham when I was at Palace.

Not every child learns for the same purpose, not every child thrives in the same settings and schools. Limiting a child to just one opportunity does nothing more than limit that child's future. The way forward must involve more public charter schools, which offer parents a tuition-free alternative to their neighborhood school.

Through the 1980s and '90s, evangelicals sought to turn back the forces of secularization. Groups like the Moral Majority and the Christian Coalition pressed for laws recognizing Christianity's unique place in American life, including laws that would allow prayer in public schools and Christian displays in public places.

Just and equal society could be made by drastically improving the condition of India's public schools.

And there should not be a limit on the creation of new public schools. We ought to expand choices for parents.

The Ten Commandments being taken out of the public schools. I want them back.

I didn't go to fancy schools or come from money or from a family that valued law or public speaking in any shape or form.

I was aware that a quarter of the children in the country are born in poverty, and that the condition of public schools in California was disastrous.

We took the Bible and prayer out of public schools, now we're having weekly shootings practically.

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

I grew up in a segregated community: I couldn't go to the public schools, beaches, certain parts of town.

I've seen public charter schools give parents a valuable option for students in Alabama and across the country.

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

Its amazing that so many kids turn out to be fairly normal, considering the weird socialization they get in public schools.

We went to public schools from kindergarten through seventh grade, and it was fun.

The academisation of schools under New Labour helped the Conservatives bring free schools into being. They said the new model would allow enthused parents to open schools. Instead, most free schools and academies are run by large chains that can outsource their IT facilities, cleaning services and other non-teaching jobs.

If a person wants to be publicly gay, they should not be teaching in the public schools.

It's so important to that we go into the public schools and we feed all of the kids something that is really good for them.

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

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

We don't have drama in public schools in France. I had never taking an acting class.

Public schools teaching students to hate America as the left appeases Muslims with "religious literacy training."

Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?

If you don't live in an area with good public schools, you can move to a different place if you have the financial means to do so.

The concept of religious freedom is largely ignored in the curriculum of our nation's public schools.

Almost all the students who make it to Caltech, one of the best scientific universities in the world, come from public schools. So it can be done.

If confirmed, I will be a strong advocate for great public schools.

We need to build on what we know works - local oversight of schools to keep a check on performance, timely interventions in schools to support those at risk of failing, and partnerships between schools to help each one to improve.

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

Having our own children in good schools does not inure us from the ill-effect of others having theirs in poor schools. Having great roads within our gated homes and offices does not help when our fancy cars spill out on to poor public roads.

We are having trouble finding teachers to teach STEM. We also need to make sure schools have the resources. Some communities have multiple computers for each student in their schools. Other schools don't have textbooks, let alone computers.