Public School Quotes - Page 11

• I believe in the support of the public school as one of the cornerstones of American liberty. I believe in the right of every parent to choose whether his child shall be educated in the public school or in a religious school supported by those of his own faith.

  Al Smith

  Religious, Children, Believe

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• I attended the public schools.And I have happy memories and strong memories of those days and good memories of the good sense and the decency of my friends and my neighbors.

  Samuel Alito

  Strong, Memories, School

  Opening Statement to Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 9 January 2006

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• 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

  School, Average, Three

  "The Lenny Interview: Marian Wright Edelman". Interview with Jurnee Smollett-bell, www.lennyletter.com. April 8, 2016.

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• In general, I'm in support of promoting art and science in public schools. I think music and science are probably the most important factors for the human brain developing. Even more so than any other fields, because music covers mathematics, cognitive reasoning, motor skills, coordination, like, it's kind of everything.

  Reggie Watts

  Art, School, Thinking

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• I was born in Norfolk, Virginia. I began school there, the first year of public school. When I was 7, the family shifted back to North Carolina. I grew up in North Carolina; had my schooling through the college level in North Carolina.

  Ella Baker

  School, College, Virginia

  Source: www.crmvet.org

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• I went to what is known as, and was at that time, too, Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina. In fact, because of the lack of public school facilities, I began there. I began boarding school at the high school level; in fact, a year below the high school level.

  Ella Baker

  School, Years, North Carolina

  Source: www.crmvet.org

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• My mother didn't feel very satisfied about the English background that I had received in the public schools in Littleton. So, she insisted that I take a year under the high school level. So, I was in boarding school nine years.

  Ella Baker

  Mother, School, Years

  Source: www.crmvet.org

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• As Christians try to force prayer into public schools, they often settle for a 'moment of silence.' But that supposedly innocuous 'moment of silence' is a deafening roar to a nonbeliever.

  Judith Hayes

  Christian, Prayer, Fear

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• My sister is a public school teacher. She makes far far less money than I do, and gets almost no public attention for her work. Yet I believe what she does is infinitely more important and more difficult than what I do.

  Anna Quindlen

  Teacher, Believe, School

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• Religion is a personal, private matter and parents, not public school officials, should decide their children's religious training. We should not have teacher-led prayers in public schools, and school officials should never favor one religion over another, or favor religion over no religion (or vice versa). I also believe that schools should not restrict students' religious liberties. The free exercise of faith is the fundamental right of every American, and that right doesn't stop at the schoolhouse door.

  George W. Bush

  Teacher, Religious, Prayer

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• I'm entirely uneducated. I went to public school - public in the American sense - a blue-collar, working-class school. I never got a scholarship, I left when I was 15, never did any exams.

  Rupert Graves

  School, Blue, Class

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Jane McGonigal

  Mom, Teacher, School

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• My parents lived in a poor rural community on the Eastern Shore, and schools were still segregated. And I remember when lawyers came into our community to open up the public schools to black kids.

  Bryan Stevenson

  School, Kids, Community

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• During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the classroom. In low-income neighborhoods like Sunset Park, where I taught, students as young as five years old enter school affected by the stresses often created by poverty: domestic violence, drug abuse, gang activity.

  Sal Albanese

  Teacher, New York, Stress

  "Education’s Elephant in the Room: Poverty" by Sal F. Albanese, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2013.

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• 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

  School, College, People

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• I think my formative experiences were really in junior high, where at a typical public school we were doing little genetic experiments, very classic experiments.

  Joseph DeRisi

  School, Thinking, Junior High

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• My colleague Sen. Rick Santorum, Pennsylvania Republican, erroneously suggested that I support the teaching of intelligent design as an alternative to biological evolution. That simply is not true. ... Unlike biological evolution, intelligent design is not a genuine scientific theory and, therefore, has no place in the curriculum of our nation's public school science classes.

  Edward Kennedy

  Teaching, School, Intelligent

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

  Joyce Meyer

  Prayer, School, Scary

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