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“The public school system doesn't get everybody. Every generation has its rebels.”

School Generations Rebel Public School School System

“The majority of the high schools and the public schools in N.Y.C. don't even have band programs. Hip-hop in a lot of ways is an outgrowth of a lack of instruments and a desire to play music, so we can't really fault the kids for that.”

Way Play Kids School Desire Band High School Program Instruments Majority Faults Hip Hop Hips Hops Public School

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“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.”

School Space Teacher Picks Flight Journal Public School Nasa School Teachers Space Flight

Author:Christa McAuliffe

“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.”

Thinking Has Beens Ideas Facts Government School Policy Creation Critical Indian Public School Critical Thinking Discouraging Public Education

Author:Russell Means

“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.”

Kids School Remember Offers Mars Public School Scholarship

Author:Edward Norton

“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.”

Ifs Knows Writing School Class Gone Teacher Written Busy Mum Public School Too Busy Homework Attending Great Education School System Montessori Eragon

Author:Christopher Paolini

“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.”

School Born College Army South Raised Stuck Public School Harlem Bronx Raised In The South

Author:Colin Powell

“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.”

Kids School Law Parent Class Products Involved Public School School System

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.”

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Author:Ronald Reagan

“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.”

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Author:Diane Abbott

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

Country School Our Country More Money Monopoly Public School School System

Author:Phyllis Schlafly

“I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me.”

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Author:Charles Schumer

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

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Author:Charles Schumer

“I can't imagine going to an all-girls school. I went to a public school.”

I Can School Girl Imagine Public School

Author:Amy Sedaris

“If the government announced that it was going to allocate a vast tranche of education funding purely to the pupils at the best public schools, there would be a national outcry - and yet this is precisely what the Olympics represents in terms of sports funding.”

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Author:Will Self

“I wanted to be a great white hunter, a prospector for gold, or a slave trader. But then, when I was eight, my parents sent me to a boarding school in South Africa. It was the equivalent of a British public school with cold showers, beatings and rotten food. But what it also had was a library full of books.”

Book Wanted School Parent White Cold Gold Slave South Library Eight British South Africa Showers Hunters Public School Rotten Traders

Author:Wilbur Smith

“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.”

Ifs Kids School Poor Program Prepared Public School Good School

Author:Sonia Sotomayor

“In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. Laws were enacted which excluded Jewish children from higher education in public schools.”

Children School Law Education Higher Jew Nazi Persecution Public School Systematic Excluded Higher Education

Author:Jack Steinberger

“I went to public school up until junior high.”

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Author:Kristen Stewart

“I went to public schools, and while Gary was, like most American cities, racially segregated, it was at least socially integrated - a cross section of children from families of all walks of life.”

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Author:Joseph Stiglitz

“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.”

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Author:Emma Stone

“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.”

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Author:Ben Affleck

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

School Waiting Taught Married Tables Public School Elementary School Waiting Tables

Author:Elizabeth Warren

“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.”

Knows Children Two Seems School Education Learning Happened Summer Humorous Educational Occasions Public School 4th Of July July

Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

“The public school system is not about educating black children. Never has been. Inner-city schools are about social control. Period. They’re operated as holding pens—miniature jails, really. It’s only when black children start breaking out of their pens and bothering white people that society even pays any attention to the issue of whether these children are being educated.”

Source: Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

“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.”

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Author:Thomas Friedman

“Frankly, I'm not sure how far I would get if I attended public school today. It's not just that public schools aren't producing the results we want - it's that we're not giving them what they need to help students achieve at high levels. K-12 education in the United States is deeply antiquated.”

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Author:Eli Broad

“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.”

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Author:Eli Broad

“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.”

People Firsts Done School Fighting Millions Imagine Havens Blue Clubs Billions Imagine That Public School Collars Oregon School Education Blue Collar

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“In many places it is literally not safe physically for youngsters to go to school. And in many schools, and its becoming almost generally true, it is spiritually unsafe to attend public schools. Look back over the history of education to the turn of the century and the beginning of the educational philosophies, pragmatism and humanism were the early ones, and they branched out into a number of other philosophies which have led us now into a circumstance where our schools are producing the problems that we face.”

“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.”

Giving Mean Has Beens Enough School Ignorance Fool Spread Merit Public School Competent School System

Book:A Cynic Looks at Life

Source: A Cynic Looks at Life

“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.”

Children Has Beens School Courses Found Deals Careers Destiny Too Much Policy Goes On Shapes Adults Narrative Experts Public School Reliability

Book:The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America

Source: The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America

“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.”

Years Children Has Beens School Felt Enjoy Teacher Violence Truth Is Fourth Could Have Been Public School Posters Public Education Truth Be Told

Author:Christopher Moore

“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.”

Source: The Souls of Black Folk

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

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation.”

“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.”

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Book:Homegrown Democrat: A Few Plain Thoughts from the Heart of America

Source: Homegrown Democrat: A Few Plain Thoughts from the Heart of America

“Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, benefits, subsidies, encouragements, progressive taxation, public schools, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed profits, minimum wages, a right to relief, a right to the tools of labor, free credit, and so on, and so on.”

Source: The Law

“If no one had ever challenged religious authority, there’d be no democracy, no public schools, women’s rights, improvements to science and medicine, evolution of slavery and no laws against child abuse or spousal abuse. I was afraid to challenge my religious beliefs because that was the basis of creation—mine anyway. I was afraid to question the Bible or anything in it, and when I did, that’s when I became involved with PFLAG and realized that my son was a perfectly normal human being and there was nothing for God to heal because Bobby was perfect just the way he was.”

“I hope that schools have changed since I was a little girl. My memory of the teaching of the public schools is that it showed the brutal incomprehension of children.”

Children Littles School Girl Memories Teaching Changed Brutal Public School Incomprehension

Book:My Life (Revised and Updated)

Source: My Life (Revised and Updated)

“A public-school system, if it means the providing of free education for those who desire it, is a noteworthy and beneficent achievement of modern times; but when once it becomes monopolistic it is the most perfect instrument for tyranny which has yet been devised. Freedom of thought in the middle ages was combated by the Inquisition, but the modern method is far more effective.’ (1923)”

Source: Christianity and Liberalism

“I suppose there is no place in the world where snobbery is quite so ever-present or where it is cultivated in such refined and subtle forms as in an English public school. Here at least one cannot say that English ‘education’ fails to do its job. You forget your Latin and Greek within a few months of leaving school — I studied Greek for eight or ten years, and now, at thirty-three, I cannot even repeat the Greek alphabet — but your snobbishness, unless you persistently root it out like the bindweed it is, sticks by you till your grave.”

Source: The Complete Works of George Orwell: The road to Wigan Pier

“I’m telling you, you’d like him. He goes to a public school and just started at Spencer’s. The other day, he was going off on unaerobic vs. aerobic respiration, and I was thinking, ‘You know who this sounds like? Melbourne.’” -- Trey”

Thinking Knows School Sound Public School Melbourne Respiration

Book:Bloodlines: The Golden Lily

Source: Bloodlines: The Golden Lily

“Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation.”

“Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.”

“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.”

“I exclusively attended public school... And I can honestly say that on the day of my graduation, if you had given me a pop quiz on history, science, or math, I would have in no way been able to pass it - despite the fact that I completely understood it at the time that it had been 'taught' to me, and had even made a good 'grade' on it.”

Ifs Way Made I Can Facts Able School Given Learning Taught Understood Pops Math Honestly Despite Grades Public School Good Grades Quiz

Author:Jessica Bowman

“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.”

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Author:Kyle Chandler

“Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. That every man may receive at least a moderate education...appears to be an object of vital importance...”

“Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction, homelessness, a weapon of mass destruction... racism, a weapon of mass destruction, fear, a weapon of mass destruction. We must disarm these weapons and renew our commitment to quality public schools and dedicated teachers and good housing and quality health care and decent jobs and stronger neighborhoods.”

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