Public Education Quotes - Page 7

• In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.

  Bobby Scott

  Education, Country, Decision

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• I grew up on the south side of Chicago in a working class community. There were no miracles in my life, there's nothing miraculous about how I grew up, and I want people to know when they look at me, to be clear that they see what an investment in public education can look like.

  Michelle Obama

  Class, People, Miracle

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The plain, unvarnished truth is that public education is a shoddy, fraudulent piece of goods sold t to the public at an astronomical price. It's time the American consumer knew the extent of the fraud which is victimizing millions of children each year.

  Samuel Blumenfeld

  Children, Years, Pieces

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• As elite attitudes towards public education over time illustrate, simple formulas are far from adequate. There are conflicting tendencies.

  Noam Chomsky

  Attitude, Simple, Adequate

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• We will never meet our own expectations of public education unless the federal government is willing to play a consistent, long-term role; unless education truly becomes a matter of national policy, not just a matter of national rhetoric.

  Carly Fiorina

  Government, Play, Long

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• If you take a look at education, the kids that get good grades are said to humiliate those who don't. And what, then, do we do? Slow them down. We put obstacles in their way. We do not devise public education systems that are designed to deal with their superior learning ability. We retard it so that they don't learn any more, any faster than the lowest common denominator - and that really is the nub of it. The Democrats' equality and sameness is all going to be defined by the lowest common denominator.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Kids, Looks, Way

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Now have two generations whose minds have been totally perverted, polluted, and destroyed by the American public education system, and, in particular, the history curriculum. Breitbart has a story on how this has happened. As the left appeases Muslims, public schools are teaching students to hate America.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Hate, Teaching, School

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• President-elect [Donald] Trump has made a provocative choice for secretary of education. Betsy DeVos comes from a wealthy Michigan family. She is an advocate for school choice. That phrase means, in essence, directing public education money to charter schools, private schools or parochial schools.

  Steve Inskeep

  School, Mean, Essence

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Randi Weingarten, head of the American Federation of Teachers, calls [Betsy] DeVos the most ideological, anti-public education nominee since the creation of the U.S. Department of Education nearly 40 years ago.

  Claudio Sanchez

  Teacher, Years, Creation

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The public education movement has also been an anti-Christian movement...We can change education in America if you put Christian principles in and Christian pedagogy in. In three years, you would totally revolutionize education in America.

  Pat Robertson

  Christian, Years, America

  "The 700 Club". TV Series, www.imdb.com. (1966 - ).

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• We are afraid to face the hard questions. We are willing to tackle drugs, crime, and public education only if it doesn't cost us any new taxes.

  J. Irwin Miller

  Drug, Cost, Faces

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• Public education has served as a check on the power of parents, and this is another powerful reason for maintaining it.

  John Goodlad

  Powerful, Parent, Maintaining

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• No deliberative body is manifestly less qualified to make decisions about public education than our state Legislature. With a few shining exceptions, most of these clowns don't read, can't write, and clearly can't add.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Writing, Shining, Decision

  Carl Hiaasen (2014). “Dance of the Reptiles: Rampaging Tourists, Marauding Pythons, Larcenous Legislators, Crazed Celebrities, and Tar-Balled Beaches: Selected Columns”, p.93, Vintage

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• The instruction furnished is not good enough for the youth of such a country ... There is not even any systematic instruction given on political morals: an enormous deficiency in a republic.

  Harriet Martineau

  Education, Country, Political

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.269

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• You can't create a successful politics of support for public education on the basis of asking voters not to care about skills, and tests that measure skills, at all.

  Nicholas Lemann

  Successful, Skills, Support

  "Ask the Author Live: Nicholas Lemann on Higher Education". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. September 20, 2010.

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• Until the Left took over American public education in the second half of the 20th century, it was generally excellent - look at the high level of eighth-grade exams from early in the 20th century and you will weep. The more money the Left has gotten for education - America now spends more per student than any country in the world - the worse the academic results. And the Left has removed God and dress codes from schools - with socially disastrous results.

  Dennis Prager

  Country, School, America

  "From California to the Boy Scouts: Left Destroys More than It Builds". jewishworldreview.com. February 24, 2009.

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• All around the United States of America - in the cities and the counties - our public education is suffering and has been suffering. Cuts, cuts, cuts.

  Bill Cosby

  Cutting, Cities, America

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