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“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.”

States School Church Attitude Atheism Influence Particular Presidential Creeds Public School Hostility Church And State Separation Between Church And State

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“I believe that the fact and the reality of homosexuality and heterosexuality and of opposite and same-gender unions should be taught in our public schools without a value judgement system also being offered.”

Should Believe Facts Reality School Values I Believe Taught Opposites Unions Gender Judgement Homosexuality Public School Judgemental Heterosexuality Heterosexuality Is

Author:Ed Case

“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.'”

People Firsts States School Nations Goal Enemy Citizens Function Historical Primaries Good People Educate Public School Indoctrination Good Citizen

Book:The Night Is Dark and I Am Far from Home

Source: The Night Is Dark and I Am Far from Home

“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.”

Book Whole Kids School Fun Acting Class Practice Growing Up Growing High School My Friends Whole Life Soccer Neighborhood Hanging Out Auditions Public School Jaded

Author:Shailene Woodley

“The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.”

School Lines Fields Areas Penalties Public School Disgrace Playing Fields

Author:Christopher Fry

“During those long years in Oakland public schools, I did not have one teacher who taught me anything relevant to my own life or experience. Not one instructor ever awoke in me a desire to learn more or to question or to explore the worlds of literature, science, and history. All they did was try to rob me of the sense of my own uniqueness and worth, and in the process nearly killed my urge to inquire.”

World Trying Years Long School Desire Literature Process My Own Teacher Taught Urges Relevant Uniqueness Public School My Own Life Instructors Oakland Desire To Learn

Author:Huey Newton

“I hope to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we don't have public schools. The churches will have taken them over again and Christians will be running them.”

Country Running School Christian Church Taken Our Country Public School

Author:Jerry Falwell

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

People School Prayer Dying Revolution Aids Shooting Public School Tea Party Sexual Revolution

Author:Christine O'Donnell

“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.”

Character School Used Issues Focus Position Particular Drug Abuse Substance Exclusive Public School Detroit Drug Abuse Substance Abuse School Districts

Author:Kwame Kilpatrick

“My education began in the public schools of Wilmington. During most of these years, from about age 10, I also worked at some job or other after school, on weekends, and in the summer months.”

Years Age School Jobs Months Summer Weekend Public School After School Wilmington

Author:Daniel Nathans

“There was one public school for boys, and one for girls, but Jewish children were admitted in limited numbers - only ten to a hundred; and even the lucky ones had their troubles.”

Children School Girl Numbers Boys Trouble Lucky Ten Hundred Public School

Author:Mary Antin

“One of the most devastating enemies of the family is radical sex education in the public school. It is more explicit than necessary for the good of the child. Too much sex education too soon causes undue curiosity and obsession with sex.”

Children School Sex Causes Enemy Too Much Curiosity Obsession Radical Public School Explicit Sex Education

Author:Beverly LaHaye

“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?”

Thinking Children School Lying Hours Color Our Children Your Children Sunday Secular Public School Ark Sunday School Noah's Ark

Author:Paul Washer

“It is eminently possible to have a market-based economy that requires no such brutality and demands no such ideological purity. A free market in consumer products can coexist with free public health care, with public schools, with a large segment of the economy -- like a national oil company -- held in state hands. It's equally possible to require corporations to pay decent wages, to respect the right of workers to form unions, and for governments to tax and redistribute wealth so that the sharp inequalities that mark the corporatist state are reduced. Markets need not be fundamentalist.”

“Going to school is not the same as going shopping. Parents should not be burdened with locating a suitable school for their child. They should be able to take their child to the neighborhood public school as a matter of course and expect that it has well-educated teachers and a sound educational program.”

Should Wells Children Matter Able School Courses Parent Sound Teacher Program Educational Educated Neighborhood Shopping Public School Suitable Well Educated Educational Programs

Author:Diane Ravitch

“The foundations demand that public schools and teachers be held accountable for performance, but they themselves are accountable to no one. If their plans fail, no sanctions are levied against them. They are bastions of unaccountability.”

Ifs School Teacher Plans Failing Demand Performances Foundation Public School Sanctions Schools And Teachers

Book:The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education

Source: The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education

“Privatizing our public schools makes as much sense as privatizing the fire department or or the police department”

School Fire Police Department Public School Police Department Fire Department

Author:Diane Ravitch

“If charter schools are not more successful on average than the public schools they replace, what is accomplished by demolishing public education? What is the rationale for authorizing for-profit charters or charter management organizations with high-paid executives, since their profits and high salaries are paid by taxpayers' dollars?”

Ifs School Successful Organization Paid Management Dollars Average Profit Accomplished Executives Public School Salary Taxpayers Charter Public Education Rationale Charter Schools

Book:Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools

Source: Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools

“In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly.”

School Term Mistake Function Making Mistakes Monopoly Public School Insisting

Author:James Q. Wilson

“It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.”

School Teach Theory Bigotry Public School Scopes Trial

Author:Clarence Darrow

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

Important School Challenges Technology Massive Public School Technology In Education

Author:Major Owens

“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.”

Home School Remember Term Rooms Teacher Helpful Mentor Public School Mentoring

Author:Sanford I. Weill

“Every successive generation becomes a living memorial of our public schools, and a living example of their excellence.”

School Generations Example Excellence Graduation Public School Memorial

Book:The Miscellaneous Writings: Literary, Critical, Juridical, and Political of Joseph Story, Now First Collected

Source: The Miscellaneous Writings: Literary, Critical, Juridical, and Political of Joseph Story, Now First Collected

“The Christian community has a golden opportunity to train an army of dedicated teachers who can invade the public school classrooms and use them to influence the nation for Christ.”

Use School Christian Opportunity Nations Christ Community Teacher Influence Army Train Golden Dedicated Classroom Public School Fundamentalist Christian Community Golden Opportunity

Author:D. James Kennedy

“We cannot go beyond the consumer society unless we first understand that obligatory public schools inevitably reproduce such a society, no matter what is taught in them.”

Firsts Matter School Taught No Matter What Consumers Public School

Author:Ivan Illich

“I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education.”

School Class Childhood Middle Middle Class Public School School Education Edinburgh

Author:Rory Bremner

“All socio-political phenomena in the U.K. come laden with the baggage of a class-based theory or two attached to them. In the case of gay Tories, there is one particularly silly variant of the category, which asserts that gayness is bred in public schools and thus fits with Conservatism like hand in glove.”

Love Two Hands Age School Political Class Cases Theory Fit Gay Silly Categories Conservatism Public School Gloves Baggage Gayness

Author:Evan Davis

“I found the most convincing part to be the working stiffs, the guys who have a modest home and kids who go to public schools. They make $75,000 to $100,000 a year. That's not much to live on. I don't have to tell you that.”

Years Home Kids School Guy Found Modest Convincing Public School

Author:Jack Valenti

“I went to a catholic public school St Helens and learned English by watching bugs bunny cartoons.”

School Catholic Cartoon Bugs Public School Bunnies

Author:Nick Mancuso

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

Ifs Want Should Persons School Teaching Gay Public School Gay Pride

Author:Jim DeMint

“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.”

States School Population Wealthy Public School Affluence School System Affluent

Author:William Weld

“If you could find a major city that actually had a functioning, good public school system, you should buy all the real estate.”

Ifs Should Real School Cities Majors Estates Public School School System

Author:Sam Zell

“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.”

School Desire Speak Reputation Acquaintance Public School Penmanship

Author:Eli Whitney

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

School Church Lord Return Ministry Public School Comeback

Author:Jay Sekulow

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

Should School Choices Parent Creation Ought Limits Public School

Author:John Engler

“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, Editor Harper's Magazine The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches, and we must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time and eternally press forward for what is yet to get. It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.”

“Out of the public schools comes the greatness of the nation.”

School Nations Education Greatness Public School

Author:Mark Twain

“Parents give up their rights when they drop the children off at public school.”

Giving Children Home School Parent Education Rights Giving Up Public School Homeschooling

Author:Melinda Harmon

“Education is thus a most power ally of humanism, and every public school is a school of humanism. What can the theistic Sunday school, meeting for an hour once a week, and teaching only a fraction of the children, do to stem the tide of a five-day program of humanistic teachings?”

Children School Hours Education Five Week Teaching Program Meetings Humanism Sunday Allies Tides Stem Public School Psychiatry Fractions Sunday School Humanistic

Book:Hvmanism: A New Religion

Source: Hvmanism: A New Religion

“Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.”

World Want Kids School University Around The World Public School

Author:Walter Annenberg

“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.”

School Education Roles Economy Innovation Surprise Productivity Communist Incentives Public School Schooled Public Education Market Economy School System Schools And Education

Author:Albert Shanker

“Let me go to Clinton's new proposal: to have uniforms in public schools. And people are doing that. How come they're doing that? Dress codes! I find that abhorrent.”

People School Let Me Dresses Clinton Code Uniforms Public School Proposal Let Me Go Doing Me Abhorrent Dress Code

Author:Russell Means

“This is an extremely foolish and stupid and idiotic kind of attitude - to expect theatres to make money. Do the public schools make money? Do libraries make money? Does the zoo make money? D o the sewers make money? It's a community service.”

Kind Doe School Community Attitude Stupid Library Theatre Foolish Making Money Public School Zoos Idiotic Community Service Sewers

Author:John Hirsch

“There are legions of [Aquarian, New Age, One World Religion] conspirators. They are in corporations, universities, and hospitals, on the faculties of public schools, in factories and doctors offices, in state and federal agencies, on city councils, and the White House staff, in state legislatures, in volunteer organizations, in virtually all arenas of policy making in the country.”

“Our public schools need to be in the control of parents and the community, as opposed to businessmen who see the $23 billion budget as a means to giving no-bid contracts to their cronies.”

Needs Giving Mean School Parent Community Billions Budgets Contracts Businessman Public School Cronies

Author:Charles Barron

“Lucifer is God in the public school system”

School Public School Lucifer School System

Author:Vinnie Paz

“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.”

Mind Humans School Social Moral Various Oppression Human Mind Exploitation Submission Public School Unschooling

Book:Emma Goldman: Making speech free, 1902-1909

Source: Emma Goldman: Making speech free, 1902-1909

“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.”

Matter States School Values Sex Teach Teacher Subjects Perspective Biology Public School School Teachers

Book:The Wit & Wisdom of Cal Thomas

Source: The Wit & Wisdom of Cal Thomas

“Every civil government is based upon some religion or philosophy of life. Education in a nation will propagate the religion of that nation. In America, the foundational religion was Christianity. And it was sown in the hearts of Americans through the home and private and public schools for centuries. Our liberty, growth, and prosperity was the result of a Biblical philosophy of life. Our continued freedom and success is dependent on our educating the youth of America in the principles of Christianity.”

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

School Cutting Priorities Public School Top Priorities

Author:Fred DuVal

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