Public Education Quotes
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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
I'm a proponent of single-payer health-care, public education, protecting the environment - all the things Democrats rally around.
— Cynthia Dill
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
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
We need excellence in public education and if the teachers can't do it, we'll send in a couple of policemen.
— Frank Rizzo
I've spent the better part of my career in politics and public policy working on and fighting for education reforms.
— Mark McKinnon
Today's public education system is a failed monopoly: bureaucratic, rigid and in unsteady control of dissatisfied captive markets.
— David T. Kearns
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
The main element of true reconciliation is the public education system.
— Nilantha Ilangamuwa
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
— Barry Commoner
I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.
— Andrew Cuomo
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
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
Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools.
— Major Owens
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
Privatizing our public schools makes as much sense as privatizing the fire department or or the police department
— Diane Ravitch
Education is a system of imposed ignorance.
— Noam Chomsky
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
— Henry Fielding
Public education is an investment in our future.
— Matt Blunt
You can't just provide power, you also need public education.
— Zephyr Teachout
America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Teach For America provides one of the most critical pipelines for bringing new talent into public education.
— Eli Broad
I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education.
— Jonathan Kozol
As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.
— G.K. Chesterton
We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
— Earl Warren
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
Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?
— B.F. Skinner
I wouldn't be where I am today without the amazing public arts education that I had.
— Matthew Morrison
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
Public justice is the greatest kind of show, my brother. Drama. Suspense. And best of all education en masse.
— Khaled Hosseini
Once we considered education a public expense; we know now that it is a public investment.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
In our secular society, school has become the replacement for church, and like church it requires that its teachings must be taken on faith.
— John Taylor Gatto
Whoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.
— Benjamin Franklin
Free education for all children in public schools ... Combination of education with industrial production
— Karl Marx
Recent decades clearly demonstrate that the more secular our Public Schools become the less successful they become academically.
— David Barton
So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall.
— Chuck Schumer
Learning is not filling up a box but seeing and imagining what we can create with it.
— Jill Telford
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
All democracies demand common public education because nothing makes people so much alike as the same education.
— Karl Jaspers
To put it simply, school readiness means creating in this country a public love of children.
— Ernest L. Boyer
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
If we get public education right, everything else will follow. But if we get it wrong, not much else will matter.
— Steve Kagen
A young man passes from our public schools to the universities, ignorant almost of the elements of every branch of useful knowledge.
— Charles Babbage
Evolution is not controversial in the field of science. It's controversial in the public sphere because public education is highly politicized.
— Eugenie Scott
All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.
— Earl Warren
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The public library is a center of public happiness first, of public education next.
— John Cotton Dana
An attack on Public Education is an attack on Democracy
— Diane Ravitch
Public education has served as a check on the power of parents, and this is another powerful reason for maintaining it.
— John Goodlad
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
It just felt like the right thing to do to give back to a state school and public school. I'm a really big fan of public education.
— Brendan Iribe
You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for $1.50 in late fees at the public library.
— Matt Damon
In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.
— Camille Paglia
My Alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.
— David Mamet
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
My hesitation to send Lotus to public school was not based on the caliber of the teachers. It stemmed from the very nature of conventional education.
— Cari Donaldson
Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
— Richard Dawkins
