Public School Quotes - Page 15

• 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.

  Christa McAuliffe

  Teacher, School, Space Flight

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• 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.

  Wynton Marsalis

  School, Kids, Play

  "Branford Marsalis On Sensitive Musicians And The First Family Of Jazz". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. August 11, 2012.

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• 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.

  Thomas Friedman

  School, World, Done

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• 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.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  School, Fighting, Oregon

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• And how can we ever again succeed in educating children to become moral men and women if, in America's public schools, we consciously deny them all religious instruction, and deny them access to that primary source of morality, God's own word. The Bible is the one book from which they are expressly not allowed to be taught.

  Pat Buchanan

  Religious, Children, Book

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• A boy will learn more true wisdom in a public school in a year than by a private education in five. It is not from masters, but from their equals, that youth learn a knowledge of the world.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  School, Boys, Years

  Oliver Goldsmith (1834). “An inquiry into the present state of polite learning. The Bee. History of Cyrillo Padovano. Life of Dr. Parnell. Life of Lord Bolingbroke. Prefaces and introductions”, p.138

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• The people of Missouri said they expect their elected leaders to support public schools because they know that education is the best economic development tool there is.

  Jay Nixon

  School, People, Support

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• If you are a czar or a king or a president or someone that wants to control those below them you do not want people to have a consciousness of life, of their needs. Because people do not make good slaves when they're connected to life... That's why in the public schools the primary objective is obedience to authority.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Kings, School, People

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• We're bombarded with liberal propaganda 24/7, from the early morning shows, Hollywood movies, documentaries and sitcoms, all major newspapers, fashion magazines, the sports pages, public schools, college professors and administrators, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. Unless liberals specifically seek out Ann Coulter books and columns, which I highly recommend, or tune into Fox News or conservative talk radio, they have no idea what conservatives are thinking.

  Ann Coulter

  Sports, Fashion, Morning

  "Ann Coulter: The "Never Trust a Liberal over 3" Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com. November 2013.

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• I do think students in public school (and private) should be required to study the Bible. [...] As a matter of pure education, it's shocking that we [the americans] are not compelled to learn the book, which is the source of our language, our common stories, our political structure, our conflicts.

  David Plotz

  Book, School, Thinking

  "Slate: David Plotz Discusses 'Good Book' and What He Learned Blogging the Bible". Live Chat, www.washingtonpost.com. March 4, 2009.

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• Public schools are where the next generation of leaders are educated and where cultural exchange will take place.

  Eugenie Scott

  School, Leader, Atheism

  "PROFILE / EUGENIE SCOTT / Berkeley scientist leads fight to stop teaching of creationism" by Monica Lam, www.sfgate.com. February 7, 2003.

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

  Charles Schumer

  Education, School, Kids

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• 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.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Philosophy, Educational, School

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• 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.

  Ambrose Bierce

  School, Ignorance, Mean

  Ambrose Bierce (2015). “A Cynic Looks at Life”, p.7, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Americans are incredibly religious as a nation, and we have gotten that way by having the government stay out of religion and say religion is a private matter. The government doesn't take sides. Public schools don't promote or denigrate any religion.

  Rachel Maddow

  Religious, School, Government

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Public schooling does not serve a public; it creates a pubic.

  Neil Postman

  Doe, Schooling

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• Because my parents were American missionaries who sent me to public schools in rural Japan, I had to confront Hiroshima as a child. I was in the fourth grade - the only American in my class - when our teacher wrote the words "America" and "Atomic Bomb" in white chalk on the blackboard. All forty Japanese children turned around to stare at me. My country had done something unforgivable and I had to take responsibility for it, all by myself. I desperately wanted to dig a hole under my desk, to escape my classmates' mute disbelief and never have to face them again.

  Linda Hoaglund

  Country, Teacher, Children

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Anyone who fears, as I do, that today's public schools are dangerously close to being irrelevant must read this book. The authors provide a road map-and a lifeline-showing how schools can prosper under the most difficult conditions. It is a welcome departure from all the school bashing.

  John Merrow

  Book, School, Departure

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• The problem is not that public schools do not work well, but rather that they do. The first goal and primary function of schools is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function which we normally label state indoctrination.

  Wendy McElroy

  School, People, Goal

  Wendy McElroy (1982). “Demystifying the State”

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• Close Dept. of Education, but don't dismantle public schools.

  Ron Paul

  School

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• Public school system status quo is indefensible.

  Barack Obama

  School, Status Quo, School System

  "The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream". Book by Barack Obama, 2006.

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• 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.

  Eli Whitney

  School, Desire, Reputation

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• There is no accountability in the public school system - except for coaches. You know what happens to a losing coach. You fire him. A losing teacher can go on losing for 30 years and then go to glory.

  Ross Perot

  Teacher, Teaching, School

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• 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.

  Jack Valenti

  Home, School, Kids

  Entertainment Weekly, April 18, 2003.

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• There are major efforts being made to dismantle Social Security, the public schools, the post office - anything that benefits the population has to be dismantled. Efforts against the U.S. Postal Service are particularly surreal.

  Noam Chomsky

  School, Office, Effort

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