Public School Quotes

It wasn't the Supreme Court that expelled God from our public school classrooms. It was the textbook publishers. — James J. Kilpatrick

But first I want to get my master's degree at Columbia's School of International Public Affairs. — Christy Romano

Private schools have been attacking public schools and really I was just a pawn in their game. I speak at schools of all ages on a regular basis. — Gorilla Zoe

I started school in public housing. My dad had a sixth-grade education. — Rick Scott

As Governor of Texas, I have set high standards for our public schools, and I have met those standards. — George W. Bush

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

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

I do not believe any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States. — Thomas A. Edison

I didn't want to get stuck in pretty, public school roles, or I knew I'd end up as some sort of caricature. — Robert Pattinson

I went to public school, and it shaped me as a musician. — Ruben Studdard

I hated speaking in public. I would miss school just so I wouldn't have to do it. — Kristen Wiig

If we were to remove the Bible from public schools we would be wasting so much time punishing crimes and taking so little pains to prevent them. — Benjamin Rush

In my freshman year in high school, I went to the only public high school in Boston with a theatre program. — Donnie Wahlberg

That thing, multiculturalism, has basically taken over the curriculum, or what is taught in the public school system. — Rush Limbaugh

Lucifer is God in the public school system — Vinnie Paz

Anybody who knows the public school teacher world (knows) there's not a lot of money in teaching. You do it because you love what you do. — Kevin Sorbo

In my mind, there is no reason public school reform should be a partisan issue. — Michael Bennet

Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in prisons? — Fran Lebowitz

Having gone to a public school, I thought I knew about posh people. But I didn't know anything until I went to Oxford. — Rory Kinnear

I'm a journalist, so my friends are journalists: magazines, newspapers, even public radio. Nobody had their kids in public school. — Sandra Tsing Loh

It's like they can smell the public school on me. — Caroline Kepnes

Drop out of the public schools. The public schools cannot be compromised with. — Timothy Leary

Christ, we had public sex at a school event. I'm a teacher. I've lost my fucking mind. — Mercy Celeste

The public school has become the established church of secular society. — Ivan Illich

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

I failed public speaking in grade school, 'cause I was so nervous and scared. — Gary Clark Jr.

Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school. — Walter Annenberg

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

I miss my friends in public school, but it's kind of a part of something that you have to give up. I'd rather perform than go to public school. — Jackie Evancho

We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we're always sick. — Stefan Molyneux

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

I was very, very shy in public and school, and quite loud and brash at home. — Tuppence Middleton

My hesitation to send Lotus to public school was not based on the caliber of the teachers. It stemmed from the very nature of conventional education. — Cari Donaldson

Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them. — Baruch Spinoza

They haven't eliminated religion from the public school. They have eliminated Christianity and have replaced it with an anti-God religion - humanism. — Ken Ham

For digital natives, public schools are jails — Bing Gordon

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it. — Colin Powell

It just felt like the right thing to do to give back to a state school and public school. I'm a really big fan of public education. — Brendan Iribe

I'm a very big public school advocate. — Cynthia Nixon

One conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study in a public school. — D.B. Patterson

The public school system doesn't get everybody. Every generation has its rebels. — Rush Limbaugh

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him. — Herbert Hoover

Unfortunately, too many public school officials believe that cameras are needed to enforce order and discipline. — Paul Weyrich

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

Going back to high school and college, I believed I would be involved in public service. I literally could not conceptualize anything else. — Bill De Blasio

Public school felt like prison - cinderblock walls, fluorescent lights, metal lockers. It was so sterile and unstimulating. — Sufjan Stevens

Every successive generation becomes a living memorial of our public schools, and a living example of their excellence. — Joseph Story

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

A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system. — Wendy Kopp

I was ridiculed in public school for being smart. A teacher's pet. — Julia Glass

If you could find a major city that actually had a functioning, good public school system, you should buy all the real estate. — Sam Zell

I find it incredible and outrageous that public and school libraries are being forced to close - we'll all pay the price in the long term. — Anthony Browne

Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite. — May Sarton

Close Dept. of Education, but don't dismantle public schools. — Ron Paul

The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school. — Mary Antin

Charter schools are just public schools on a slightly longer leash. A dog on a long leash is still a dog on a leash. — Marshall Fritz

The concept of religious freedom is largely ignored in the curriculum of our nation's public schools. — Charles Haynes

I believe the public schools are the greatest cultural influence in this country. — Phyllis Schlafly

The situation was much as if some profit-making organizations had grafted themselves upon the public-school system. — George R. Stewart

I went to public school but kept to myself. When you live in a brothel, you don't want anyone coming to your home. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Only one day at public school and the bitches already made your locker rain?" she laughs. "Impressive. — Colleen Hoover

I went to a local high school in Lancaster. Not much I can say about it; it was pretty much your typical public high school back in Pennsylvania. — Jonathan Groff

I'm Breckin," he says. "I'm in an alliance to overtake the public school system and all its minions with your daughter. — Colleen Hoover

I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school. — Samantha Fox

American politician doesWe're going to bring back God and the Bible and drive the gods of secular humanism right out of the public schools of America. — Pat Buchanan

Public school system status quo is indefensible. — Barack Obama

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

When I was sent to public school, I was relieved that I could wear what I wanted to wear. — Davey Havok

It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion. — Joseph Goebbels

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

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

The public scrutiny element they don't teach you in film school. So few people are ever subjected to it. — Colin Trevorrow

The ACLU's various policies regarding religious freedom in public schools are a revealing collection of anti-religious bias. — F. LaGard Smith

Public school teachers are the new priesthood while traditional religion is ridiculed and maligned. — Ann Coulter

All four of my grandparents were educators, my mom was a school nurse, and I went through the public school system. — Erin Cummings

I was born and raised in Maryland and attended the public school system. — Brendan Iribe

We're spending, on average, three times more for prison than for public-school pupils. That's the dumbest investment policy. It doesn't make us safer. — Marian Wright Edelman

I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system. — William H. Gray

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

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

Our teachers at the public school level are the most underpaid for the importance of their job in America. — Dean Smith

I want my kids to be in an environment where they can talk about values in a way that you can't always do in a public school setting. — Kerry Healey

My mom is a public school teacher and works with third grade students. — Jane McGonigal

I can imagine no more important contribution to our country's future than a long-term commitment to improving urban K-12 public schools. — Eli Broad

I was born and raised in California and benefited from California's excellent public schools, from kindergarten through medical school. — Ami Bera

People think I have the benefit of a public school education. I have this suave and debonair label, but really, I'm as common as muck. — Charles Dance

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

I went to public school my whole life. It was a performing arts school, so I can't say if it was a typical experience or not, because it's all I know. — Eden Sher

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

I didn't go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen. — Jonathan Demme

In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly. — James Q. Wilson

I attended public school with the same group of kids from K through 12. — Thomas Friedman

I went to college because I felt like I was supposed to. I graduated from public high school and I did all the things that I was supposed to do. — Mila Kunis

Going to public school is like living in bubble, you have no concept of what other people do. — Thighpaulsandra

As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then. — David Dinkins

Out of the public schools comes the greatness of the nation. — Mark Twain

If prayer is to leave the public schools, let the ridicule of prayer leave also. — Boyd K. Packer

To put it simply, school readiness means creating in this country a public love of children. — Ernest L. Boyer

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

I went to a catholic public school St Helens and learned English by watching bugs bunny cartoons. — Nick Mancuso