Public School Quotes - Page 14

• As a retired educator I have seen first-hand the impact a great education can have on a young person's life. I will always be a champion for public schools, our teachers, and our children.

  Alma Adams

  Teacher, Children, School

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• I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system.

  William H. Gray III

  Believe, School, Choices

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• My mother went to Radcliffe, and rather than just trying to get rich, she wanted to be a teacher and taught for over 30 years in the public schools. She's definitely got some war stories.

  Ben Affleck

  Mom, Mother, Teacher

  "Renaissance Man: Ben Affleck" by Karen Durbin, www.elle.com. September 24, 2010.

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• Doesn't anything socialistic make you want to throw up? Like great public schools, or health insurance for all?

  Kurt Vonnegut

  School, Want, Socialism

  Kurt Vonnegut (2013). “If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young”, p.50, RosettaBooks

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• I was home-schooled. My mom wasn't a fan of public school systems.

  Britt Robertson

  Mom, Home, School

  "Britt Robertson Interview THE SECRET CIRCLE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 28, 2011.

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• 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.

  Edward Norton

  School, Kids, Mars

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• Creationists have also changed their name ... to intelligent design theorists who study 'irreducible complexity' and the 'abrupt appearance' of life-yet more jargon for 'God did it.' ... Notice that they have no interest in replacing evolution with native American creation myths or including the Code of Hammarabi alongside the posting of the Ten Commandments in public schools.

  Michael Shermer

  Native American, School, Science

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• Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?

  B. F. Skinner

  School, Moon, Men

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• We just moved out of L.A. because I didn't want to be raising my girls in the city. They're in public school now and they're in a normal situation. We're sort of settling into that. It's just a choice.

  Jennie Garth

  Girl, School, Cities

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• But you're never taught in schools - we don't teach anyone in public schools that government is the problem. We don't teach anyone in college that government is the problem - except maybe a handful of sort of unique, conservative schools. But mainstream media never talks as if government is the problem.

  Jonah Goldberg

  School, Unique, College

  "Do Liberals Live Under A 'Tyranny Of Cliches'?". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. May 2, 2012.

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• It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia.

  Henry Lawson

  Anniversary, Children, School

  Henry Lawson (1984). “A Camp-fire Yarn: Henry Lawson Complete Works 1885-1900”

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• Its amazing that so many kids turn out to be fairly normal, considering the weird socialization they get in public schools.

  Rick Santorum

  School, Kids, Normal

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• I grew up in a little cul-de-sac in the suburbs and went to public school. I went to Costco on the weekends.

  Rooney Mara

  School, Weekend, Littles

  "Rooney Mara: Playing with Fire". Interview with Jonathan Van Meter, www.vogue.com. October 17, 2011.

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• And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful.

  Warren Beatty

  Teacher, School, Safety

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• I'm from East Sheen, I went to public school where I learned Latin at the age of nine, and certain expectations were made of me to go to St Paul's, Oxbridge maybe, and all that kind of thing. And I failed systematically to meet the mark - who I am and what I should have been are two very different things.

  Tom Hardy

  Latin, School, Who I Am

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public school that feeling is bad form. He must not express great joy or sorrow, or even open his mouth too wide when he talks-his pipe might fall out if he did.

  E. M. Forster

  Fall, School, Justice

  Abinger Harvest "Notes on English Character" (1936)

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• 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

  Children, School, Return

  "President Bush in Georgia". President Bush's speech at a Georgia rally, www.nytimes.com. October 31, 2006.

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• Many years ago Christian pioneers had to fight savage Indians. Today missionaries of these former cultures are being sent via the public schools to heathenize our children.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Christian, Children, School

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• Because we are unqualifiedly and without reservation against any system of denominational schools, maintained by the adherents of any creed with the help of state aid, therefore, we as strenuously insist that 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.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Attitude, School, Atheism

  Theodore Roosevelt (1967). “Writings”

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• 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.

  Emma Stone

  Kings, School, Rights

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• Public school teachers in Long Island, New York, saved my life in the '70s. They were involved and invested and helpful. One took me into her family and loved me back to life. She taught me that love is not formed and families are not formed by blood. That love makes a family.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Teacher, New York, School

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

  Charles Schumer

  School

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

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Country, School, Monopoly

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• 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

  School, Kids, Law

  TimeOut Interview, www.timeout.com.

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• 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.

  Russell Means

  School, Thinking, Government

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