Public School Quotes - Page 6

• We are a people of many races, many faiths, creeds, and religions. I do not think that the men who made the Constitution forbade the establishment of a State church because they were opposed to religion. They knew that the introduction of religious differences into American life would undermine the democratic foundations of this country. What holds for adults holds even more for children, sensitive and conscious of differences. I certainly hope that the Board of Education will think very, very seriously before it introduces this division and antagonism in our public schools.

  John Dewey

  Country, Religious, Children

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• I was born in Columbia in 1954, the year the Supreme Court invalidated racial segregation in public schools. I visited frequently but did not live there.

  Randall Kennedy

  School, Years, Segregation

  Randall Kennedy (2013). “For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law”, p.3, Vintage

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• [If Republicans] got to put their kids into public school. They got to take public health. They would become libertarian faster than you could say Ayn Rand.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Kids, School, Libertarian

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• When you say you don't think we should have public schools, they can't believe you mean that. You must mean that they should be smaller. But you can't really mean no public schools.

  Dave Barry

  Believe, School, Mean

  ""All I Think Is That It's Stupid": An Interview with Dave Barry". Interview with Glenn Garvin, reason.com. December, 1994.

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• The traditional religious right's failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more extreme dominionist school.

  Jon Meacham

  Religious, Prayer, School

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• My habit of attacking Huns dangling from their parachutes led to many arguments in the mess. Some officers, of the Eton and Sandhurst type, thought it was 'unsportsmanlike' to do it. Never having been to a public school, I was unhampered by such considerations of form. I just pointed out that there was a bloody war on, and that I intended to avenge my pals.

  James Ira Thomas Jones

  War, School, Pals

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• My mom is a public school teacher and works with third grade students.

  Jane McGonigal

  Mom, Teacher, School

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• Growing up, I was always in normal public school which is very important in my eyes.

  Tahj Mowry

  Growing Up, School, Eye

  "'Smart Guy' Tahj Mowry: From Child Star To Adult Actor". Interview with Brooke Obie, www.ebony.com. October 8, 2012.

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• The study of tools as well as of books should have a place in the public schools. Tools, machinery, and the implements of the farmshould be made familiar to every boy, and suitable industrial education should be furnished for every girl.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Girl, Education, Book

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• When I first came to Oxford, I struggled to feel comfortable in an Anglican, public school-dominated institution.

  Niall Ferguson

  School, Oxford, Firsts

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• Nowadays, with history not being taught anymore in American public schools, self-esteem is taking its place.

  Dennis Miller

  Self Esteem, School, Taught

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• When it comes to public school education, we have been unwilling to measure our results. We've been unwilling to pay based on performance. We have tenure where, even if you can't teach, you can't get fired. We've been unwilling to invest in new schools.

  Michael Bloomberg

  School, Pay, Results

  "Global Public Square" with Fareed Zakaria, globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com. November 2, 2008.

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• I believe the public schools are the greatest cultural influence in this country.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Country, Believe, School

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• Any time you have poverty, joblessness, sub-par public schools, and a lack of opportunity, you're going to have a high rate of crime.

  George Pelecanos

  School, Opportunity, Poverty

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 19, 2001.

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• It wasn't the Supreme Court that expelled God from our public school classrooms. It was the textbook publishers.

  James J. Kilpatrick

  Christian, Religious, School

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• I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool.

  Bill Gates

  School, Tests, Sixth Grade

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• A symptomatic example of the way in which violence has saturated everyday life can be seen in the increased acceptance of criminalizing the behavior of young people in public schools. Behaviors that were normally handled by teachers, guidance counselors and school administrators are now dealt with by the police and the criminal justice system.

  Henry Giroux

  Teacher, School, Acceptance

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• You know that Estonia, based largely on how successful Skype was, built by Estonian developers, that was a tenth of the entire country's GDP when eBay bought it. That was like a decade ago, it was f****** Estonia, they were behind the Iron Curtain two decades earlier. They're now pushing for K-12 education in computer science in public schools. They've gotten the message. They know how much value that can bring.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Country, School, Successful

  Source: thetartan.org

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• Sandra Day O'Connor - once she said that there are - there were no public schools in America until the 18th century, and she overlooked my alma mater because we started - I say we - in 1635. And among the people who went there - and they're on - the walls in the auditorium, the names are: Ralph Waldo Emerson and Cotton Mather, Benjamin Franklin, except he split when he was 10 years old to go to work.

  Nat Hentoff

  Wall, School, Years

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• I was sent to the regular public schools until I had to go to Belmont Hill. Because I wasn't doing anything. The public school was nothing, just a total waste of time.

  Paul Laffoley

  School, Waste, Wasting Time

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• [Kenneth Koch] taught children in public schools in New York City to write poems and told them down worry about rhyming, don't worry about any of that stuff. You know, write a poem where you mention three colors and make it five lines - or he would just give them, you know, little strategies. And, man, they wrote some great poems.

  Jim Jarmusch

  New York, Children, Writing

  Source: www.npr.org

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• When I was growing up, there were a lot more arts in the public schools. Politically, America has screwed up on that.

  Julie Taymor

  Art, Growing Up, School

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• On the [Betsy] DeVos case, I agree that the gun - her gun position is kind of weird, kind of crazy, but I do think she does know about public schools.

  David Brooks

  Crazy, School, Gun

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• [Betsy DeVos] does care about charter schools, which are public schools. She does care about choice, which is a perfectly legitimate thing to care about. It's because it's the one issue where the Democratic donor base was really energized, which was the teacher unions.

  David Brooks

  Teacher, School, Issues

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• One fact we're particularly proud of is that there are more people learning languages on Duolingo in the US than there are people learning languages in the entire US public school system.

  Luis von Ahn

  School, People, Proud

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