Public School Quotes - Page 3

• Every public school in the country should have a nutrition-education curriculum. We're creating a pilot program at my son's school. We are looking to create a replicable model that can help bring good nutrition to all children.

  Cat Cora

  Country, Children, School

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• I'm used to a very busy schedule. Right now it revolves around training and preparing for Nationals in January. I'm usually at the rink from 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. and then I attend public school for two hours, three times per week.

  Sasha Cohen

  Sports, School, Two

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• I was at a public school until I was in sixth grade when I moved to New York.

  Sami Gayle

  New York, School, Sixth Grade

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• From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.

  Dick Cheney

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  2004 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 1 September 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York

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• I just started as a part of the public school music program. I took lessons at the school every Friday and was a part of the school band. I was just a normal kid taking instrumental lessons at school, nothing special.

  Kenny G

  Friday, School, Kids

  "Namaste & Conversation : Interviews With Kenny G and David Benoit, Plus Downtown Struts and Sara Jackson-Holman Exclusives". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 20, 2012.

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• During those long years in Oakland public schools, I did not have one teacher who taught me anything relevant to my own life or experience. Not one instructor ever awoke in me a desire to learn more or to question or to explore the worlds of literature, science, and history. All they did was try to rob me of the sense of my own uniqueness and worth, and in the process nearly killed my urge to inquire.

  Huey Newton

  Teacher, School, Years

  "Revolutionary Suicide". Book by Huey P. Newton, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1973.

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• At my public school I had hated every other face for fear the owner was a lord, at university, I was to court the rich while doubting whether there should be great inequalities between incomes.

  Henry Green

  School, Doubt, Income

  Henry Green (1940). “Pack my bag: a self-portrait”

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• One of the most devastating enemies of the family is radical sex education in the public school. It is more explicit than necessary for the good of the child. Too much sex education too soon causes undue curiosity and obsession with sex.

  Beverly LaHaye

  Sex, Children, School

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• Going to school is not the same as going shopping. Parents should not be burdened with locating a suitable school for their child. They should be able to take their child to the neighborhood public school as a matter of course and expect that it has well-educated teachers and a sound educational program.

  Diane Ravitch

  Teacher, Children, Educational

  "Education and the election: it's still all about the money" Lucy Clark, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2016.

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• My education began in the public schools of Wilmington. During most of these years, from about age 10, I also worked at some job or other after school, on weekends, and in the summer months.

  Daniel Nathans

  Summer, Jobs, School

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• The foundations demand that public schools and teachers be held accountable for performance, but they themselves are accountable to no one. If their plans fail, no sanctions are levied against them. They are bastions of unaccountability.

  Diane Ravitch

  Teacher, School, Foundation

  Diane Ravitch (2011). “The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education”, p.200, Basic Books

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• We took the Bible and prayer out of public schools, now we're having weekly shootings practically.

  Christine O'Donnell

  Prayer, School, People

  "O’Donnell So Fervently Pro-Truth That She Wouldn’t Lie To Nazis Asking If She Were Hiding Jews In Her Home". "Politically Incorrect" with Bill Maher, thinkprogress.org. 1998.

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• I hope to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we don't have public schools. The churches will have taken them over again and Christians will be running them.

  Jerry Falwell

  Christian, Running, Country

  "Jerry Falwell - Lest We Forget..." by Martin Lewis, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 15, 2007.

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• The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.

  Christopher Fry

  School, Lines, Fields

  "Why the penalty laws should change" by Paul Doyle, www.theguardian.com. April 20, 2011.

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• My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didn't go to college. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard.

  Ben Affleck

  Mother, Dad, School

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• Privatizing our public schools makes as much sense as privatizing the fire department or or the police department

  Diane Ravitch

  School, Fire, Police

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• It is eminently possible to have a market-based economy that requires no such brutality and demands no such ideological purity. A free market in consumer products can coexist with free public health care, with public schools, with a large segment of the economy -- like a national oil company -- held in state hands. It's equally possible to require corporations to pay decent wages, to respect the right of workers to form unions, and for governments to tax and redistribute wealth so that the sharp inequalities that mark the corporatist state are reduced. Markets need not be fundamentalist.

  Naomi Klein

  School, Hands, Oil

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• Character issues such as drug abuse are not exclusive to Detroit Public Schools. My reference to substance abuse, not intended to focus on any particular school district, was simply used to illustrate this position.

  Kwame Kilpatrick

  School, Character, Issues

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• High school was interesting, because I went from a public school middle school to an academy where the first year we were doing Latin, chemistry, biology. I mean, I was woefully unprepared for the type of study.

  Kyle Chandler

  Latin, Mean, School

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

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• I suppose there is no place in the world where snobbery is quite so ever-present or where it is cultivated in such refined and subtle forms as in an English public school. Here at least one cannot say that English ‘education’ fails to do its job. You forget your Latin and Greek within a few months of leaving school — I studied Greek for eight or ten years, and now, at thirty-three, I cannot even repeat the Greek alphabet — but your snobbishness, unless you persistently root it out like the bindweed it is, sticks by you till your grave.

  George Orwell

  Jobs, Latin, School

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1986). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: The road to Wigan Pier”

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• If no one had ever challenged religious authority, there’d be no democracy, no public schools, women’s rights, improvements to science and medicine, evolution of slavery and no laws against child abuse or spousal abuse. I was afraid to challenge my religious beliefs because that was the basis of creation—mine anyway. I was afraid to question the Bible or anything in it, and when I did, that’s when I became involved with PFLAG and realized that my son was a perfectly normal human being and there was nothing for God to heal because Bobby was perfect just the way he was.

  Mary Griffith

  Religious, Children, School

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• Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, benefits, subsidies, encouragements, progressive taxation, public schools, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed profits, minimum wages, a right to relief, a right to the tools of labor, free credit, and so on, and so on.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Encouragement, Jobs, School

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.17, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I went to public school all my life and all through college and I liked it.

  Dave Eggers

  School, College

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• I attended public school with the same group of kids from K through 12.

  Thomas Friedman

  School, Kids, Groups

  Thomas L. Friedman, Michael Mandelbaum (2011). “That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back”, p.12, Macmillan

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• 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

  Country, School, Commitment

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