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The public school has become the established church of secular society. -- Ivan Illich
My primary and secondary education was provided by the Highland Park Public School System. -- James Cronin
My time at the Denver Public Schools taught me there is no harder, or more important, job than being a teacher. -- Michael Bennet
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. -- Michael Bennet
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. -- Kwame Kilpatrick
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. -- James Lovegrove
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. -- Eli Broad
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. -- Michael Bennet
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. -- Nimrat Kaur
Lucifer is God in the public school system -- Vinnie Paz
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality. -- Henry Fielding
Parents give up their rights when they drop the children off at public school. -- Melinda Harmon
Nowadays, with history not being taught anymore in American public schools, self-esteem is taking its place. -- Dennis Miller
That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down. -- Evelyn Waugh
Historically, much of the motivation for public schooling has been to stifle variety and institute social control. -- Hugh Jackman
Doesn't anything socialistic make you want to throw up? Like great public schools, or health insurance for all? -- Kurt Vonnegut
Our public schools began as ministries of the church; now it is time to return them to the Lord. -- Jay Alan Sekulow
I do not believe any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States. -- Thomas A. Edison
No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him. -- Herbert Hoover
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. -- Garrison Keillor
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. -- Thomas Sowell
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. -- Emma Goldman
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. -- Colin Powell
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. -- Cal Thomas
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." -- Walter Karp
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. -- Evelyn Waugh
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.' -- Jonathan Kozol
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. -- Susan B. Anthony
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. -- Spike Lee
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? -- Paul Washer
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. -- W. E. B. Du Bois
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. -- Jonathan Kozol
I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool. -- Bill Gates
Our teachers at the public school level are the most underpaid for the importance of their job in America. -- Dean Smith
Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money. -- Phyllis Schlafly
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
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
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. -- Dave Grohl
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. -- Sanford I. Weill
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. -- Eli Whitney
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. -- Rupert Graves
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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. -- Kyle Chandler
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. -- Dennis Moore
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. -- Emma Stone
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. -- Tom Wolfe
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. -- Ben Affleck
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. -- Feisal Abdul Rauf
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. -- Mark Haddon
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. -- Mark Feuerstein
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. -- Ezra Miller
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. -- Sal Albanese
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. -- Zach Braff
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. -- Christopher Paolini
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. -- Cecily von Ziegesar
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. -- Shailene Woodley
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. -- Steven Curtis Chapman
I'm not a typical public school boy. -- Josh Bowman
I'm a very big public school advocate. -- Cynthia Nixon
Public school system status quo is indefensible. -- Barack Obama
I went to public school up until junior high. -- Kristen Stewart
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
The public school system doesn't get everybody. Every generation has its rebels. -- Rush Limbaugh
I was home-schooled. My mom wasn't a fan of public school systems. -- Britt Robertson
I was ridiculed in public school for being smart. A teacher's pet. -- Julia Glass
I attended public school with the same group of kids from K through 12. -- Thomas Friedman
My mom is a public school teacher and works with third grade students. -- Jane McGonigal
Disinterested public service has become, just so... what's the phrase, 'old school.' -- Tina Brown
I can't imagine going to an all-girls school. I went to a public school. -- Amy Sedaris
Public school teachers are the new priesthood while traditional religion is ridiculed and maligned. -- Ann Coulter
I failed public speaking in grade school, 'cause I was so nervous and scared. -- Gary Clark, Jr.
I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school. -- Samantha Fox
somewhere about the eighteenth century, history tacitly replaced religion as the school of public morals. -- C. V. Wedgwood
In my mind, there is no reason public school reform should be a partisan issue. -- Michael Bennet
I went to public school all my life and all through college and I liked it. -- Dave Eggers
Growing up, I was always in normal public school which is very important in my eyes. -- Tahj Mowry
To put it simply, school readiness means creating in this country a public love of children. -- Ernest L. Boyer
But first I want to get my master's degree at Columbia's School of International Public Affairs. -- Christy Romano
I was very, very shy in public and school, and quite loud and brash at home. -- Tuppence Middleton
Unfortunately, too many public school officials believe that cameras are needed to enforce order and discipline. -- Paul Weyrich
I hated speaking in public. I would miss school just so I wouldn't have to do it. -- Kristen Wiig
The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school. -- Christopher Fry
When I first came to Oxford, I struggled to feel comfortable in an Anglican, public school-dominated institution. -- Niall Ferguson
I went to a catholic public school St Helens and learned English by watching bugs bunny cartoons. -- Nick Mancuso
In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly. -- James Q. Wilson
Public school felt like prison - cinderblock walls, fluorescent lights, metal lockers. It was so sterile and unstimulating. -- Sufjan Stevens
That thing, multiculturalism, has basically taken over the curriculum, or what is taught in the public school system. -- Rush Limbaugh
That thing, multiculturalism, has basically taken over the curriculum, or what is taught in the public school system. -- Rush Limbaugh
It wasn't the Supreme Court that expelled God from our public school classrooms. It was the textbook publishers. -- James J. Kilpatrick
Me, I was waiting tables of 13 and married at 19. I graduated from public schools, and taught elementary school. -- Elizabeth Warren
Going to public school is like living in bubble, you have no concept of what other people do. -- Thighpaulsandra
I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system. -- William H. Gray
I was at a public school until I was in sixth grade when I moved to New York. -- Sami Gayle
I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system. -- William H. Gray
When I was sent to public school, I was relieved that I could wear what I wanted to wear. -- Davey Havok
I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated. -- Spike Lee
It seems the public in Europe has not yet learnt that most girls in India today go to school. -- Hans Rosling
The public scrutiny element they don't teach you in film school. So few people are ever subjected to it. -- Colin Trevorrow
As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then. -- David Dinkins
I was born and raised in California and benefited from California's excellent public schools, from kindergarten through medical school. -- Ami Bera
I'm a journalist, so my friends are journalists: magazines, newspapers, even public radio. Nobody had their kids in public school. -- Sandra Tsing Loh
A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system. -- Wendy Kopp
Often times the public school teachers are ridiculed or they are made to feel inferior but this is really undeserved. -- Peter Agre
I didn't go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen. -- Jonathan Demme
All four of my grandparents were educators, my mom was a school nurse, and I went through the public school system. -- Erin Cummings
No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him -- Herbert Hoover
In my freshman year in high school, I went to the only public high school in Boston with a theatre program. -- Donnie Wahlberg
The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school. -- Mary Antin
I have realized why corrupt politicians do nothing to improve the quality of public school education. They are terrified of educated voters. -- Miriam
It should go without saying that there are as many working-class people who hold socially liberal views as there are public-school bigots. -- Robert Webb
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. -- Diane Abbott
I grew up in a little cul-de-sac in the suburbs and went to public school. I went to Costco on the weekends. -- Rooney Mara
I didn't want to get stuck in pretty, public school roles, or I knew I'd end up as some sort of caricature. -- Robert Pattinson
I grew up in a little cul-de-sac in the suburbs and went to public school. I went to Costco on the weekends -- Rooney Mara
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. -- Marian Wright Edelman
If you could find a major city that actually had a functioning, good public school system, you should buy all the real estate. -- Sam Zell
Going back to high school and college, I believed I would be involved in public service. I literally could not conceptualize anything else. -- Bill de Blasio
Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school. -- Walter Annenberg
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. -- Hank Johnson

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