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When you wage war on the public schools, you're attacking the mortar that holds the community together. You're not a conservative, you're a vandal. — Garrison Keillor

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

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

The Ten Commandments being taken out of the public schools. I want them back. — Kinky Friedman

Our public schools began as ministries of the church; now it is time to return them to the Lord. — Jay Alan Sekulow

You won't believe what our kids are eating in the public schools. It's just nuts. — Mary McCormack

Failure to recognize learning styles in public schools has promoted a standard lecture format for teaching, which has frustrated the learning of many. — Rick Blackwood

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

Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy. — Tony Parsons

I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction. — Flea

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

You look at public education system, charter schools, infrastructure, in so many ways New Orleans has come back stronger. — Drew Brees

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

I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools. — Andrew Cuomo

Half the Christian churches of New York are trying to ruin the free public schools in order to replace them by religious dogma. — W.E.B. Du Bois

My time at the Denver Public Schools taught me there is no harder, or more important, job than being a teacher. — Michael Bennet

Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools. — Major Owens

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

And there should not be a limit on the creation of new public schools. We ought to expand choices for parents. — John Engler

Privatizing our public schools makes as much sense as privatizing the fire department or or the police department — Diane Ravitch

Legislatures not driven to desperation by the problems of public education may be able to see the threat in vouchers negotiable in sectarian schools. — David Souter

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

Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality. — Henry Fielding

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

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

As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly. — G.K. Chesterton

Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools? — B.F. Skinner

My top priority is to stop the cuts to our public schools. — Fred DuVal

I was born on June 3rd, 1929, in Graenichen in the Canton of Aargau, Switzerland, where I went to the public schools until the age of 16. — Werner Arber

If you want a good education, go to private schools. If you can't afford it, tough luck. You can go to the public school. — Paul LePage

Me, I was waiting tables of 13 and married at 19. I graduated from public schools, and taught elementary school. — Elizabeth Warren

Encourage public schools to teach American children how to code just after they learn to multiply. — Marvin Ammori

In one survey, respondents listed Princeton as one of the country's top ten law schools. The problem? Princeton doesn't have a law school — Alexandra Robbins

I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me. — Chuck Schumer

Free education for all children in public schools ... Combination of education with industrial production — Karl Marx

[The notion of separating church and state with such policies as disallowing prayer in public schools] is a deception from Satan. — Joyce Meyer

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

Public schools go on year after year. They don't die because they are not alive. — Natalie Goldberg

It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins. — Clarence Darrow

Recent decades clearly demonstrate that the more secular our Public Schools become the less successful they become academically. — David Barton

We can hardly complain about prayer being taken from the public schools if we are not praying in our Christian homes. — Kristen Welch

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 L. Friedman

If a person wants to be publicly gay, they should not be teaching in the public schools. — Jim DeMint

Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's part of any endeavour, not just writing. — Roddy Doyle

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

I wanted to find ways for colleges and universities to become involved with public schools to help young people prepare for college. — Freeman A. Hrabowski III

Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety. — Joseph Lancaster

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

Learning is not filling up a box but seeing and imagining what we can create with it. — Jill Telford

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

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

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

For digital natives, public schools are jails — Bing Gordon

We don't have drama in public schools in France. I had never taking an acting class. — Stephanie Szostak

It's so important to that we go into the public schools and we feed all of the kids something that is really good for them. — Alice Waters

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation. — P. J. O'Rourke

This is the situation in the public schools of America: The farther you travel from the classroom the greater your financial and professional rewards. — Frank McCourt

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