Public School Quotes - Page 17

• I think a lot of people were like, "Oh, you're 13, you're gonna rebel." But I was never in public school and I was never really forced to do much of anything, as a kid.

  Ellar Coltrane

  School, Kids, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.

  Carl Bernstein

  Beautiful, Crush, Girl

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• Out of the public schools comes the greatness of the nation.

  Mark Twain

  Education, School, Greatness

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• Free education for all children in public schools... Combination of education with industrial production

  Karl Marx

  Children, School, Free Education

  Karl Marx (1950). “Communist Manifesto: The revolutionary text that changed the course of history”, p.1844, Harriman House Limited

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• I'm convinced many of America's heroes are public school teachers and administrators. Many of these people do what they do because of their faith.

  Adam Hamilton

  Teacher, Hero, School

  "Put God Back in Public Schools?" by Adam Hamilton, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 7, 2013.

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• I went to public school for like, one day. I don't get it. Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.

  Ethan Embry

  School, Thinking, Trying

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

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• In America our public schools are intended to be religiously neutral. Our teachers and schools are neither to endorse nor to inhibit religion. I believe this is a very good thing.

  Adam Hamilton

  Teacher, Believe, School

  "Put God Back in Public Schools?" by Adam Hamilton, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 7, 2013.

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

  Paul Weyrich

  Believe, School, Order

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• Moore's only concession to the Democrats' role-playing is to deny that he is a Democrat, hoping enough Americans were taught by public school teachers that no one will know how to look up Moore's voter registration card. Democrat.

  Ann Coulter

  Teacher, School, Role Playing

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• 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

  Real, School, Cities

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• I grew up in Queens, in New York City, in a middle class Jewish family. My mother was a public school teacher, my father was a lawyer. They were Democrats - kind of middle-of-the-road democrats.

  Elliott Abrams

  Mother, Teacher, Queens

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• Writing songs out of my faith was a real natural progression. I grew up singing in my dad's choir and singing with my family. Christian music became the music that I identified myself with and was a way that I expressed my faith. Even at a public school I would take my Christian music in and play it for my friends.

  Steven Curtis Chapman

  Christian, Song, Dad

  "Steven Curtis Chapman: Reckless Faith". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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

  Erin Cummings

  Mom, School, Nurse

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

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• No matter how good a public school teacher, he or she will always be required to teach the state's values and the state's perspective on subjects from sex to history and biology.

  Cal Thomas

  Teacher, Sex, School

  Cal Thomas, Wayne Stayskal (2001). “The Wit & Wisdom of Cal Thomas”

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• When I was sent to public school, I was relieved that I could wear what I wanted to wear.

  Davey Havok

  School, Relieved, Wanted

  "AFI’s Davey Havok Weighs In on Rock Band, Surviving Catholic School, and Crash Love". Interview with Jon Chattman, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 29, 2009.

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• My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Mother, Teacher, New York

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

  John Engler

  School, Choices, Parent

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• 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

  Giving Up, School, Missing

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• Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools.

  Major Owens

  School, Technology, Challenges

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• I remember the mentoring experiences of some teachers that I had, like a second term home room teacher in public school that really was very helpful to me.

  Sanford I. Weill

  Teacher, Home, School

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

  Joseph Story

  Graduation, School, Memorial

  Joseph Story (1835). “The Miscellaneous Writings: Literary, Critical, Juridical, and Political of Joseph Story, Now First Collected”, p.73

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• The system that had grown up in most states is that wealthy districts with an affluent population can afford to spend a lot more on their public school systems than the poorer districts.

  William Weld

  School, Population, Affluence

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

  Nick Mancuso

  School, Catholic, Cartoon

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Christian community has a golden opportunity to train an army of dedicated teachers who can invade the public school classrooms and use them to influence the nation for Christ.

  D. James Kennedy

  Christian, Teacher, School

  "Education: Public Problems and Private Solutions" by D. James Kennedy, Coral Ridge Ministries Media, 1993.

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• The public school system: "Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it instead into meek subservience to authority." - Walter Karp, Editor Harper's Magazine
  The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches, and we must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time and eternally press forward for what is yet to get. It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Crush, Creativity, School

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