Public School Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly.

  James Q. Wilson

  Mistake, School, Monopoly

  "No Easy Answers: An Interview with James Q. Wilson". Interview with William D. Eggers and John O'Leary, reason.com. February 1995.

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• Education is thus a most power ally of humanism, and every public school is a school of humanism. What can the theistic Sunday school, meeting for an hour once a week, and teaching only a fraction of the children, do to stem the tide of a five-day program of humanistic teachings?

  Charles Francis Potter

  Education, Children, Teaching

  Charles Francis Potter, Mrs Clara (Cook). Potter (1930). “Hvmanism: A New Religion”

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• Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.

  Walter Annenberg

  School, Kids, World

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• Let me go to Clinton's new proposal: to have uniforms in public schools. And people are doing that. How come they're doing that? Dress codes! I find that abhorrent.

  Russell Means

  School, People, Abhorrent

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• There are legions of [Aquarian, New Age, One World Religion] conspirators. They are in corporations, universities, and hospitals, on the faculties of public schools, in factories and doctors offices, in state and federal agencies, on city councils, and the White House staff, in state legislatures, in volunteer organizations, in virtually all arenas of policy making in the country.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Country, School, World Religions

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• Public school teachers are the new priesthood while traditional religion is ridiculed and maligned.

  Ann Coulter

  Teacher, School, Priesthood

  Ann Coulter (2006). “Godless: The Church of Liberalism”, p.148, Crown Forum

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• Hoping to see karate included in the universal physical education taught in our public schools, I set about revising the kata so as to make them as simple as possible. Times change, the world changes, and obviously the martial arts must change too. The karate that high school students practice today is not the same karate that was practiced even as recently as ten years ago [this book was written in 1956], and it is a long way indeed from the karate I learned when I was a child in Okinawa.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Art, Children, Book

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• I still use the pronoun she for my publicity materials, and for mainstream media stuff, for two reasons: the first is that I do a lot of work in public schools, and I want those young women and girls to see every kind of she there can be. I want them to see my biceps and my shorn hair and shirt and tie and for some of them to see me as a possibilityI want them to see me living outside of the boxes, because they might be asphyxiating in their own box and need to see there is air out here for them to breathe, that all they have to do is lift the lid a little.

  Rae Spoon

  Girl, School, Hair

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• As Governor of Texas, I have set high standards for our public schools, and I have met those standards.

  George W. Bush

  School, Humor, Texas

  "Governor George W. Bush gives first online news interview". www.cnn.com. August 30, 2000.

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• The sense of justice springs from self-respect; both are coeval with our
  birth. Children are born with an innate sense of justice; it usually takes
  twelve years of public schooling and four more years of college to beat it
  out of them.

  Edward Abbey

  Children, Spring, College

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.19, RosettaBooks

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• I cannot but say a word and look my disapproval when I hear that my country is spending millions for war and war engines-more, I have heard, than twice as much as the entire public school system costs the nation.

  Helen Keller

  Country, War, School

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.42, American Foundation for the Blind

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• The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.

  Mary Antin

  Morning, School, Pride

  Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.136, Courier Corporation

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• When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings?

  William Bagley

  Education, Teacher, School

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• We're going to bring back God and the Bible and drive the gods of secular humanism right out of the public schools of America.

  Pat Buchanan

  School, America, Scary

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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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• [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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• 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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• For digital natives, public schools are jails

  Bing Gordon

  School, Jail, Digital

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