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• 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.

  Jack Steinberger

  Education, Children, School

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

  James Q. Wilson

  Mistake, School, Monopoly

  "No Easy Answers: An Interview with James Q. Wilson". Interview with William D. Eggers and John O'Leary, reason.com. February 1995.

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• 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?

  Diane Ravitch

  School, Successful, Average

  Diane Ravitch (2013). “Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools”, p.219, Vintage

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• 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

  Soccer, Growing Up, Fun

  "‘The Descendants’ Breakout Shailene Woodley on Her Future and Working With George Clooney". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. December 2, 2011.

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• For digital natives, public schools are jails

  Bing Gordon

  School, Jail, Digital

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• While public school history courses in the United States stress the horrors of the German Nazi murder of 6 million Jews and Josef Stalin's pogroms against racial minorities and political dissidents in the Soviet Union, the facts that the U.S. Army's solution to the 'Indian Problem' was the prototype for the Nazi 'Final Solution' to the 'Jewish Problem' and that the North American Indian Reservation was the model for the twentieth century gulag and concentration camp, are conveniently overlooked.

  Jonathan Ott

  Stress, School, Army

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• Today the children of our public schools are taught more of the history, heroes, legends, and sagas of the old world than of the land of their birth, while they are furnished with little material on the people and institutions that are truly American.

  Luther Standing Bear

  Children, Hero, School

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• 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

  Crush, Creativity, School

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• The problem with intelligent-design theory, is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable. Not being susceptible to contradicting evidence, it is not a testable hypothesis. Hence it is not a scientific but a creedal tenet - a matter of faith, unsuited to a public school's science curriculum.

  George Will

  School, Intelligent, Design

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• From my grandfather's father, I learned to dispense with attendance at public schools, and to enjoy good teachers at home, and to recognize that on such things money should be eagerly spent.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Teacher, Father, Educational

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book I, Verse 4,

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• 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.

  Will Self

  Sports, School, Government

  "Not in my manor" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2006.

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

  Amy Sedaris

  Girl, School, Imagine

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

  Rush Limbaugh

  School, Rebel, Generations

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• 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

  Art, School, Cutting

  "Spike Lee Talks Obama, the End of Mookie's Brooklyn, and the Hollywood Color Line". Interview with Will Leitch, www.vulture.com. July 8, 2012.

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• I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.

  Spike Lee

  School, Islands, Kindergarten

  "Spike Lee Talks Obama, the End of Mookie's Brooklyn, and the Hollywood Color Line". Interview with Will Leitch, www.vulture.com. July 8, 2012.

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• During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed.

  Jonathan Kozol

  School, Black And White, Achievement

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• 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

  Teenager, Team, School

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• 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

  Mother, Teacher, School

  "Dave Grohl: 'I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death. I started praying...'". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2011.

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• I was a scholarship minor public school day boy at Ardingly College and later Whitgift School. Then, straight into work as a journalist - a wonderful thing for a writer.

  Neil Gaiman

  School, Boys, College

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• I attended public school with the same group of kids from K through 12.

  Thomas Friedman

  School, Kids, Groups

  Thomas L. Friedman, Michael Mandelbaum (2011). “That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back”, p.12, Macmillan

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• I went to public school all my life and all through college and I liked it.

  Dave Eggers

  School, College

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• Well, when I moved to L.A. at 17, I had just come out of high school. I grew up and went to public school in Boston.

  Eliza Dushku

  School, Boston, Grew Up

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. February 27, 2009.

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

  Jim DeMint

  Teaching, School, Gay

  "Stephen Colbert for U.S. Senate! (Seriously)" by Dean Obeidallah, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2012.

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• 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.

  Evan Davis

  Love, Silly, School

  "Glad to be gay, glad to be Tory" by Evan Davis, www.theguardian.com. April 20, 2012.

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• 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

  School, Competition, Students

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