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I was home-schooled. My mom wasn't a fan of public school systems. -- Britt Robertson
The public school system doesn't get everybody. Every generation has its rebels. -- Rush Limbaugh
I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system. -- William H. Gray
Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money. -- Phyllis Schlafly
A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system. -- Wendy Kopp
All four of my grandparents were educators, my mom was a school nurse, and I went through the public school system. -- Erin Cummings
When you introduce competition into the public school system, most studies show that schools start to do better when they are competing for students. -- Bill Cosby
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
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. -- Steven Chu
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? -- Charles Platt
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. -- Edmund Barton
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. -- Marilyn Hacker
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. -- Allison Scagliotti
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. -- William Weld
My early education was in the public school system of Omaha, where, retrospectively, I realize that my high school training served me in good stead for the basic subjects of mathematics, English, foreign languages and history. -- Lawrence R. Klein
Lucifer is God in the public school system -- Vinnie Paz
I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system. -- William H. Gray
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
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
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. -- George W. Bush
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. -- Ann Richards
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. -- William Giraldi
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. -- Luis von Ahn
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.... -- Shirley Jackson
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
My early education was in the public school system of Omaha, where, retrospectively, I realize that my high school training served me in good stead for the basic subjects of mathematics, English, foreign languages and history. -- Lawrence R. Klein
We developed at the local school district level probably the best public school system in the world. Or it was until the Federal government added Federal interference to Federal financial aid and eroded educational quality in the process. -- Ronald Reagan
There is no accountability in the public school system - except for coaches. You know what happens to a losing coach. You fire him. A losing teacher can go on losing for 30 years and then go to glory. -- Ross Perot
Lucky enough, through the public school system, I had been able to have some music education, and that gave me something to focus on, and discipline - like a family to feel part of. There was a healthy family. -- Flea
I cannot but say a word and look my disapproval when I hear that my country is spending millions for war and war engines-more, I have heard, than twice as much as the entire public school system costs the nation. -- Helen Keller
As a means of dispensing formulated ignorance our boasted public school system is not without merit; it spreads out education sufficiently thin to give everyone enough to make him a more competent fool than he would have been without it... -- Ambrose Bierce
Spending an extra dollar on the D.C. public school system isn't spending an extra dollar on education. Spending an extra dollar with the Pentagon doesn't buy you an extra dollar on defense. Republicans need to look skeptically at military spending. -- Grover Norquist
I had several teachers who inspired me, in both the public school system and the Upward Bound program. I needed several, because I lived in such abject poverty and dysfunction. And they're still in my life today, because I consider them to be friends, actually. -- Viola Davis
If religious freedom is to endure in America, the responsibility for teaching religion to public school children must be left to the homes and churches of our land, where this responsibility rightfully belongs. It must not be assumed by the government through the agency of the public school system. -- Sam Ervin
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
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
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
I would like to dissolve the $10 billion national Department of Education created by President Carter and turn schools back to the local school districts, where we built the greatest public school system the world has ever seen. I think I can make a case that the decline in the quality of public education began when federal aid became federal interference. -- Ronald Reagan
My primary and secondary education was provided by the Highland Park Public School System. -- James Cronin
You look at public education system, charter schools, infrastructure, in so many ways New Orleans has come back stronger. -- Drew Brees
In my opinion, right up there with free public schools, our free public library system is what makes citizenship possible, even what makes America great. -- Karen DeCrow
Charter schools are public schools that operate, to a certain extent, outside the system. They have more control over their teachers, curriculum and resources. They also have less money than public schools. -- Maggie Gallagher
If you're going to have a public subsidy to education, vouchers are clearly a better way of delivering it. They should result in some loosening up and privatization of the government school system. -- Peter Brimelow
Public school system status quo is indefensible. -- Barack Obama
That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down. -- Evelyn Waugh
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. -- John Sergeant Wise
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. -- Tom L. Johnson
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. -- Daniel Radcliffe

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