Public School Quotes - Page 16

• As Americans we place special emphasis on human dignity, justice and freedom. WE measure as good of bad that which meets these goals. Those high ideas have survived and flourished on this soil for two centuries since the Founding Fathers planted them because we have sustained a general public enlightenment through a free and universal public school system.

  Henry Clausen

  Father, School, Ideas

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• I had no interest in sports so I didn't make friends in that traditional way where kids are in public school and they go and they join clubs, and play sports. So I kind of had to find my own way to make friends and get attention and so I just was the class clown.

  Zach Braff

  Sports, School, Kids

  "Marathon Man: Zach Braff". Interview with Jennifer Campbell, www.askmen.com.

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• It is obvious to any observer that in every western country the increase of importance of public schools has been at least coincident with the relaxation of older family ties.

  John Dewey

  Country, School, Ties

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, David Sidorsky (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1927-1928”, p.230, SIU Press

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• I don't think people ought to believe only one news medium. They ought to read and they ought to go to opinion journals and all the rest of it. I think it's terribly important that this be taught in the public schools, because otherwise, we're gonna get to a situation because of economic pressures and other things where television's all you've got left. And that would be disastrous. We can't cover the news in a half-hour event evening. That's ridiculous.

  Walter Cronkite

  Believe, School, Thinking

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• Boy is my wife stupid. It takes her and hour and a half to watch 60 minutes. My daughters no bargain either. In public school she was voted most likely to conceive.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Daughter, Stupid

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• I was going to public school in the post-World War II, the grey doldrum years. But I was in this extraordinary environment of Manhattan, of Greenwich Village, of bohemian parents.

  Anne Waldman

  War, School, Years

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• I had several teachers who inspired me, in both the public school system and the Upward Bound program. I needed several, because I lived in such abject poverty and dysfunction. And they're still in my life today, because I consider them to be friends, actually.

  Viola Davis

  Teacher, School, Dysfunction

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• Creating a high-functioning education system requires all the strategies involved in building high-functioning organisations anywhere. It requires a deliberate and aggressive strategy to ensure extraordinary talent at every level of the system, from the superintendentcy to district offices to principalships to classrooms. It requires building systems for accountability; offering parents the ability to choose their public schools is the ultimate form of this. It requires building a strong culture at the system and school levels based on high expectations for student achievement.

  Wendy Kopp

  Strong, School, Creating

  Source: www.economist.com

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• Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful, but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources.

  Bobby Scott

  Educational, School, Opportunity

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• The phenomenon of home schooling is a wonderful example of the American can-do attitude. Growing numbers of parents have become disenchanted with government-run public schools. Many parents have simply taken matters into their own hands, literally.

  Steve Forbes

  Running, Attitude, Taken

  Steve Forbes (1999). “A New Birth of Freedom: Vision for America”, Regnery Publishing

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• Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy.

  Tony Parsons

  School, Grammar, Grammar School

  "Man and Boy". Book by Tony Parsons, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1999.

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• A school prayer amendment would confer upon public school boards a power the First Amendment now denies to Congress and the states, that is, the power to establish religion.

  Sam Ervin

  Prayer, School, Atheism

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• If religious freedom is to endure in America, the responsibility for teaching religion to public school children must be left to the homes and churches of our land, where this responsibility rightfully belongs. It must not be assumed by the government through the agency of the public school system.

  Sam Ervin

  Religious, Children, Teaching

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• I went to public school in L.A., so I felt like I'd been in a coma for three years. I woke up, and moved to New York.

  Val Kilmer

  New York, School, Years

  Interview with Piotr Uklanski, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 24, 2011.

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• I see bright kids trapped in public schools that are just warehousing them. As an educator this makes me scared. As Secretary of State, this makes me terrified.

  Maria Shriver

  School, Kids, Scared

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Evolution as described by Charles Darwin is an scientific theory, abundantly reconfirmed, explaining physical phenomena by physical causes. Intelligent Design is a faith-based initiative in rhetorical argument. Should we teach I.D. in America's public schools? Yes, let's do - not as science, but alongside other spiritual beliefs, such as Islam, Zoroastrianism and the Hindu Idea that Earth rests on Chukwa, the giant turtle.

  David Quammen

  Spiritual, School, Intelligent

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• Ask a fellow if he favors organized prayer in the public schools. If he says 'No' he's a liberal. If he says 'Yes' he's a conservative. If he says, 'Public schools? The Constitution grants the government no power to run any mandatory tax-funded youth propaganda camps,' you have your hands on the wily libertarian.

  Vin Suprynowicz

  Running, Prayer, School

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• Education Secretary Arne Duncan spurned the opportunity to condemn thousands of Wisconsin public school teachers for lying about being 'sick' and shutting down at least eight school districts across the state to attend capitol protests (many of whom dragged their students on a social justice field trip with them). Instead, Duncan defended teachers for 'doing probably the most important work in society.' Only striking government teachers could win federal praise for not doing their jobs.

  Michelle Malkin

  Teacher, Jobs, Lying

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• Well, my mom taught public school music for almost 40 years. And she's about 5 feet - and very mighty. And she would control her kids a lot by giving them the eye, or the stare.

  Vanessa L. Williams

  Mom, School, Kids

  "Vanessa Williams On Scandals, TV And Her Mom". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. May 10, 2012.

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• A young man passes from our public schools to the universities, ignorant almost of the elements of every branch of useful knowledge.

  Charles Babbage

  Education, School, Science

  Charles Babbage, Anthony Hyman (1989). “Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage”, p.116, Cambridge University Press

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• Charter schools are public schools that operate, to a certain extent, outside the system. They have more control over their teachers, curriculum and resources. They also have less money than public schools.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Teacher, School, Curriculum

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• Often times the public school teachers are ridiculed or they are made to feel inferior but this is really undeserved.

  Peter Agre

  Teacher, School, Made

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• What's always got me is the fact that when people talked on the telly about Iraq, before Afghanistan kicked off, you'd get only these public-school-type army officers talking about what was going on out there. I kept thinking, 'Why don't we get the true voice of the squaddie? Why don't we hear from the lads on the battlefield?'

  Ross Kemp

  School, Army, Thinking

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• 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.

  Ivan Illich

  School, Matter, Firsts

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• The Ten Commandments being taken out of the public schools. I want them back.

  Kinky Friedman

  Taken, School, Want

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