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In The Field Of Public Education, The Doctrine Of 'Separate But Equal' Has No Place -- Earl Warren
Public education is an investment in our future. -- Matt Blunt
An attack on Public Education is an attack on Democracy -- Diane Ravitch
I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools. -- Andrew Cuomo
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry. -- Scott Turow
Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and Republicans engage in consensus and cooperation - not cynicism and combat. -- Rick Perry
The Figurehead of American Public Education Who Prefers Private Religious Education (!)All things equal, I would prefer to have a child in a school that has a strong appreciation for the values of the Christian community, where a child is taught to have a strong faith. -- Rod Paige
Education is a system of imposed ignorance. -- Noam Chomsky
Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite. -- May Sarton
The public library is a center of public happiness first, of public education next. -- John Cotton Dana
Today's public education system is a failed monopoly: bureaucratic, rigid and in unsteady control of dissatisfied captive markets. -- David T. Kearns
The public education movement has also been an anti-Christian movement...We can change education in America if you put Christian principles in and Christian pedagogy in. In three years, you would totally revolutionize education in America. -- Pat Robertson
Humanitys greatest advances are not in its discoveries, but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity. Whether through democracy, strong public education, quality health care, or broad economic opportunity, reducing inequity is the highest human achievement. -- Bill Gates
The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. -- H. L. Mencken
In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and its a policy where they do not encourage, in fact, discourage, critical thinking and the creation of ideas and public education. -- Russell Means
Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program, shore up Social Security, fortify our defense, provide a quality public education and offer economic assistance to rural areas. -- Bennie Thompson
What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies. -- Fareed Zakaria
As a teacher of fourth-graders in a public school, where corporal punishement was not allowed, she had years of violence stored up and was, truth be told, sort of enjoying letting it out on Kona, who she felt could have been the poster child for the failure of public education. -- Christopher Moore
American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a business may be the worst of them, for it threatens to destroy public education. Who will Stand up to the tycoons and politicians and tell them so? -- Diane Ravitch
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 and there are few incentives for innovation and productivity. It's no surprise that our school system doesn't improve: It more resembles the communist economy than our own market economy. -- Albert Shanker
Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance. -- Jonathan Kozol
All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield. -- Earl Warren
In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education. -- Camille Paglia
Legislatures not driven to desperation by the problems of public education may be able to see the threat in vouchers negotiable in sectarian schools. -- David Souter
You can't have public health without working with the public sector. You can't have public education without working with the public sector in education. -- Paul Farmer
To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America held back by mass ignorance and mass illiteracy. -- Timothy Noah
Many states can no longer afford to support public education, public benefits, public services without doing something about the exorbitant costs that mass incarceration have created. -- Bryan Stevenson
All around the United States of America - in the cities and the counties - our public education is suffering and has been suffering. Cuts, cuts, cuts. -- Bill Cosby
I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman's right to choose, a good public education system. -- Barbara Boxer
Future public education will require involvement and collaboration among various local, civic, private and nonprofit entities, a concept I like to refer to as 'community entrepreneurship.' -- Donald Bren
We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge. -- Matt Blunt
I am very proud of the quality of public education in Nebraska, but I believe we have an obligation to continually assess whether our system is meeting 21st Century education needs. -- Dave Heineman
We need to end the government monopoly in education by transferring power from bureaucracies and unions to families. The era of defining public education as allegiance to centralized school districts must end. -- Jeb Bush
Many of those who argue for vouchers say that they simply want to use competition to improve public education. I don't think it works that way, and I've been watching this for a longtime. -- Jonathan Kozol
I am and have always been a strong proponent of public education. But by the virtue of its very nature - publicly funded schools cannot offer the type of spiritual education that Catholic schools have long provided. -- Mark Foley
You've got to have a good public education system so small-business owners, when they locate to an area, are confident their kids are getting the best education possible. I feel strongly about local control in school districts. -- Jon Tester
Our public education system does a great job. I don't think it's broken. We aren't interested in doing reform for reform's sake. I believe in public education; it did a great job for me. It deserves our support and encouragement. -- Denise Juneau
All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education. -- Gary Johnson
I look back and see the kids who made it through school - it made a huge difference in their lives, which made me believe in the power of public education and what it can do for individuals and communities and the state. -- Denise Juneau
Public education must be viewed from the lens of providing each child with the learning environment that best meets his or her needs. If we can send a low-income child to a parochial school, knowing that his odds of attending college will increase as a result, then that should be our mission. -- Jeb Bush
The government has convinced parents that at some point it's no longer their responsibility. And in fact, they force them, in many respects, to turn their children over to the public education system and wrest control from them and block them out of participation of that. That has to change or education will not improve in this country. -- Rick Santorum
It's hard to improve public education - that's clear. -- Bill Gates
Close Dept. of Education, but don't dismantle public schools. -- Ron Paul
You can't just provide power, you also need public education. -- Zephyr Teachout
Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom. -- Nancy Pearcey
Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom." -- Nancy Pearcey
I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education. -- Rory Bremner
I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education, -- Rory Bremner
I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education. -- Jonathan Kozol
My primary and secondary education was provided by the Highland Park Public School System. -- James Cronin
Free education for all children in public schools... Combination of education with industrial production -- Karl Marx
Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools. -- Major Owens
We also call for free public education going forward. We know it pays for itself. -- Jill Stein
I wouldnt be where I am today without the amazing public arts education that I had. -- Matthew Morrison
I wouldn't be where I am today without the amazing public arts education that I had. -- Matthew Morrison
Once we considered education a public expense; we know now that it is a public investment. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools? -- B. F. Skinner
All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield -- Earl Warren
All democracies demand common public education because nothing makes people so much alike as the same education. -- Karl Jaspers
Teach For America provides one of the most critical pipelines for bringing new talent into public education. -- Eli Broad
If you want to know how to solve society's problems, you start out with better public education. -- Michael Bloomberg
You can't persuade most of the public that education and making a living aren't the same thing. -- Robertson Davies
In the U.S., we believe the best way to improve lives is to improve public education. -- Bill Gates
So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall. -- Chuck Schumer
I'm a proponent of single-payer health-care, public education, protecting the environment - all the things Democrats rally around. -- Cynthia Dill
We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place. -- Earl Warren
So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall. -- Chuck Schumer
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art. -- Barry Commoner
You look at public education system, charter schools, infrastructure, in so many ways New Orleans has come back stronger. -- Drew Brees
As elite attitudes towards public education over time illustrate, simple formulas are far from adequate. There are conflicting tendencies. -- Noam Chomsky
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I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated. -- Spike Lee
American education will be determined by the quality of American public education, and that's public schools that are available. -- Mark Shields
Public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid. -- Tracy Kidder
California is maybe the richest place in the world. They're destroying the best public education system in the world. -- Noam Chomsky
We need excellence in public education and if the teachers can't do it, we'll send in a couple of policemen. -- Frank Rizzo
You wasted $150,000 on an education you could have got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library. -- Ben Affleck
I've spent the better part of my career in politics and public policy working on and fighting for education reforms. -- Mark McKinnon
I've been an advocate for public education for a long time. It's the way people are able to improve their lives. -- Mary Burke
Public education has served as a check on the power of parents, and this is another powerful reason for maintaining it. -- John Goodlad
We need to figure how to defend higher education as a public good. If we can't do that, we're in trouble. -- Henry Giroux
If we get public education right, everything else will follow. But if we get it wrong, not much else will matter. -- Steve Kagen
Evolution is not controversial in the field of science. It's controversial in the public sphere because public education is highly politicized. -- Eugenie Scott
We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning. -- Kinky Friedman
I have realized why corrupt politicians do nothing to improve the quality of public school education. They are terrified of educated voters. -- Miriam
All the public systems "? administration, justice, education and political are designed to keep people with knowledge out. Such a system promotes mediocrity. -- Rahul Gandhi
I was just your average hockey mom, and signed up for the PTA because I wanted to make my kids' public education better. -- Sarah Palin
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. -- Paul LePage
The Public provides freedom...Individualism begins after the roads are built, after individualists have had an education, after medical research has cured their diseases... -- George Lakoff
Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense. -- James Madison
Mexico is a pretty poor country, but they are maintaining a free, high quality public education system, not for everyone of course but pretty substantial. -- Noam Chomsky
In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country. -- Bobby Scott
We have seen a central government taking more and more control over public education, over communications, over transportation, over every detail of our daily lives. -- Robert W. Welch, Jr.
Governors of both political parties face a stark choice between unpopular tax increases and drastic cuts in Medicaid, education, public safety and other essential services. -- Bill Delahunt
Racial discrimination in public education is unconstitutional.....All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting such discrimination must yield to this principle. -- Earl Warren
A complete and generous education fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both public and private, of peace and war. -- John Milton
So if you want to find somebody to blame for the way i am, I guess you'd have to start with the public education system. -- Jeff Kinney
It is now quite obvious that the humanists are using public education as the battering ram with which to destroy Christianity in the United States. -- Samuel Blumenfeld
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. -- Charles Dance
Real security, in other words, is inseparable from issues of energy policy; education; public health; preservation of soils, forests, and waters; and broadly based, sustainable prosperity. -- David W. Orr
Future public education will require involvement and collaboration among various local, civic, private and nonprofit entities, a concept I like to refer to as community entrepreneurship. -- Donald Bren
Public education is so important - resisting privatization and charterization, high-stakes testing, and defunding. It's important for New York, but it's also important for the country. -- Zephyr Teachout
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. -- Kenneth C. Griffin
We will continue to go out onto the streets and to protest, and actively encourage the public to support us in our campaign for free education, -- Joe Hockey
The people of Missouri said they expect their elected leaders to support public schools because they know that education is the best economic development tool there is. -- Jay Nixon
That should be the goal, is that every kid in every neighborhood, despite whatever challenges they may face, are getting a great education in our public schools. -- Michelle Rhee
We are afraid to face the hard questions. We are willing to tackle drugs, crime, and public education only if it doesn't cost us any new taxes. -- J. Irwin Miller
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. -- Julia Stiles
There is no more reason to pay for private education than there is to pay for a private swimming pool for those who do not use public facilities. -- Albert Shanker
You can't create a successful politics of support for public education on the basis of asking voters not to care about skills, and tests that measure skills, at all. -- Nicholas Lemann
Things like water and sewage systems require states in a large-scale society, but states are also a good mechanism for dealing with health care, education, public transportation, and infrastructure. -- Cynthia Kauffman
Of all the public services, education is the one I'm most interested in. You get a more dynamic economy, you deal with most social problems, and it's morally right. -- George Osborne
The left has total control over the public education system, all the way up to the university level. It's something they own, and it's going to have to change. -- Rush Limbaugh
I do look upon the secretary of education's primary responsibility as the quality of education that - and improving the education that every child in American public schools receives. -- Mark Shields
The government can access these funds but only following approval by the parliament to support our budget requirements and investments in infrastructure development, education, public health, and so on. -- Jose Ramos-Horta
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. -- Steven Michael Quezada
We're throwing money down a rat hole drain of public education! We lead the world in public education spending. We lead the world in getting the least for it. -- Rush Limbaugh
The education of the common people requires, perhaps, in a civilized and commercial society, the attention of the public more than that of people of some rank and fortune. -- Adam Smith
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