Public School Quotes - Page 4

• I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.

  Spike Lee

  School, Islands, Kindergarten

  "Spike Lee Talks Obama, the End of Mookie's Brooklyn, and the Hollywood Color Line". Interview with Will Leitch, www.vulture.com. July 8, 2012.

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• When I went to school, you had to take art, you had to play an instrument. You had to play an instrument. But it's all degraded since then. I do not know what kind of nation we are that is cutting art, music, and gym out of the public-school curriculum.

  Spike Lee

  Art, School, Cutting

  "Spike Lee Talks Obama, the End of Mookie's Brooklyn, and the Hollywood Color Line". Interview with Will Leitch, www.vulture.com. July 8, 2012.

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• The public school system doesn't get everybody. Every generation has its rebels.

  Rush Limbaugh

  School, Rebel, Generations

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• [T]his is another reason why the children of illegals are sought for public schools: They'll put up with it. The children of illegals will put up with these dilapidated schools because for them, it is a huge step up. And these schools become little indoctrination centers for the children of illegal immigrants, as they are brainwashed and programmed to become Democrats as adults.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Children, School, Littles

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• I went to public school my whole life, graduated high school with my class. Growing up, I’d go to an audition, my friends would go to soccer practice and we’d all reconvene and hang out in our neighborhood. When I would book something, I would never tell my friends. Acting was just fun. I was a kid, I wasn’t jaded.

  Shailene Woodley

  Soccer, Growing Up, Fun

  "‘The Descendants’ Breakout Shailene Woodley on Her Future and Working With George Clooney". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. December 2, 2011.

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• I went to public schools, and while Gary was, like most American cities, racially segregated, it was at least socially integrated - a cross section of children from families of all walks of life.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Children, School, Cities

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• There were no politics to polarize us then, to magnify every slight. The "negroes" of Washington had their public schools, restaurants, bars, movie houses, playgrounds and churches; and we had ours.

  Pat Buchanan

  School, House, Scary

  "If Helen Thomas, Then Why Not Pat Buchanan?" by Michael Fauntroy, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 7, 2010.

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

  Elizabeth Warren

  School, Waiting, Tables

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• Today the children of our public schools are taught more of the history, heroes, legends, and sagas of the old world than of the land of their birth, while they are furnished with little material on the people and institutions that are truly American.

  Luther Standing Bear

  Children, Hero, School

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• While public school history courses in the United States stress the horrors of the German Nazi murder of 6 million Jews and Josef Stalin's pogroms against racial minorities and political dissidents in the Soviet Union, the facts that the U.S. Army's solution to the 'Indian Problem' was the prototype for the Nazi 'Final Solution' to the 'Jewish Problem' and that the North American Indian Reservation was the model for the twentieth century gulag and concentration camp, are conveniently overlooked.

  Jonathan Ott

  Stress, School, Army

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• As a teacher of fourth-graders in a public school, where corporal punishement was not allowed, she had years of violence stored up and was, truth be told, sort of enjoying letting it out on Kona, who she felt could have been the poster child for the failure of public education.

  Christopher Moore

  Teacher, Children, School

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• The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of polite society; if is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment from which forms the secret of civilization.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Graduation, Education, Teacher

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2016). “The Souls of Black Folk”, p.71, First Avenue Editions

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

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  School, Support, Moral

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• The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Children, Memories, Stress

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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

  War, School, Community

  Garrison Keillor (2004). “Homegrown Democrat: A Few Plain Thoughts from the Heart of America”, p.85, Penguin

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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

  Crush, Creativity, School

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• Creationists who want religious ideas taught as scientific fact in public schools continue to adapt to courtroom defeats by hiding their true aims under ever changing guises.

  Eugenie Scott

  Religious, School, Ideas

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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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• I didn't want to get stuck in pretty, public school roles, or I knew I'd end up as some sort of caricature.

  Robert Pattinson

  School, Careers, Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads; ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant general the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned, if at all.

  Martin Gardner

  Queens, Kings, Teaching

  "Adventures Of a Mathematician" by Martin Gardner, www.nytimes.com. May 9, 1976.

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• It isn't that some gay will get some rights. It's that everyone else in our state will lose rights. For instance, parents will lose the right to protect and direct the upbringing of their children. Because our K-12 public school system, of which ninety per cent of all youth are in the public school system, they will be required to learn that homosexuality is normal, equal and perhaps you should try it. And that will occur immediately, that all schools will begin teaching homosexuality.

  Michele Bachmann

  Children, Teaching, School

  "Prophetic Views Behind The News" hosted by Jan Markell, KKMS 980-AM, March 6, 2004.

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• Our children will be forced to learn that homosexuality is normal and natural and that perhaps they should try it, and that'll be very soon in our public schools all across the state, beginning in kindergarten.

  Michele Bachmann

  Children, School, Trying

  "Prophetic Views Behind The News" hosted by Jan Markell, KKMS 980-AM, March 6, 2004.

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