School System Quotes - Page 3

• The public school system is not about educating black children. Never has been. Inner-city schools are about social control. Period. They’re operated as holding pens—miniature jails, really. It’s only when black children start breaking out of their pens and bothering white people that society even pays any attention to the issue of whether these children are being educated.

  Barack Obama

  Children, School, Cities

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance”, p.258, Broadway Books

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• Our school systems teach our children that they are nothing but glorified apes who have evolutionized out of some primordial soup of mud, by teaching evolution as fact.

  Tom DeLay

  Children, Teaching, School

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• I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.

  Albert Ellis

  Children, School, Thinking

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• The science fair has long been a favorite educational tool in the American school system, and for a good reason: Your teachers hate you.

  Dave Barry

  Teacher, Hate, Educational

  Dave Barry (2011). “Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down”, p.39, Ballantine Books

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• In the matter of the maintenance and rearing of children the Anarchists would neither institute the communistic nursery which the State Socialists favor nor keep the communistic school system which now prevails.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Children, School, Maintenance

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1893). “Instead of a Book”, Ayer Company Pub

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• I'm not a very good advertisement for the American school system.

  David Brinkley

  School, Very Good, Advertisements

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• A public-school system, if it means the providing of free education for those who desire it, is a noteworthy and beneficent achievement of modern times; but when once it becomes monopolistic it is the most perfect instrument for tyranny which has yet been devised. Freedom of thought in the middle ages was combated by the Inquisition, but the modern method is far more effective.’ (1923)

  John Gresham Machen

  School, Mean, Free Education

  John Gresham Machen (1923). “Christianity and Liberalism”, p.14, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• In the United States, the Supreme Court's decision of 1954, outlawing segregation in school systems, was greeted with mixed feelings of hope and skepticism by African-Americans.

  John Henrik Clarke

  School, Decision, African American

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• When you introduce competition into the public school system, most studies show that schools start to do better when they are competing for students.

  Bill Cosby

  School, Competition, Students

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• Public schools are government-established, politician- and bureaucrat-controlled, fully politicized, taxpayer-supported, authoritarian socialist institutions. In fact, the public-school system is one of the purest examples of socialism existing in America.

  Tom L. Johnson

  School, Government, America

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• Both of my parents are teachers. One is in the Waldorf school system in Louisville, Ky., and the other runs a music school. I grew up with loving, supportive, encouraging parents that let me make my own world, and I wish that for every single child.

  Madi Diaz

  Running, Teacher, Children

  "Madi Diaz: Loving the Process". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I worked as a teacher in the public school system in New York City for several years, and I was a victim of the layoffs, you know, in the mid-'70s. And then I worked as a sales engineer for a company in New Jersey that was selling industrial filtration equipment.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Teacher, New York, School

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• The school system is constructed to praise you if you get high grades. And if you get straight A's, you're the one that everyone puts forward, and they prognosticate that the straight-A person is the one most likely to succeed, because that's the way the school system is constructed and conceived.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  School, Getting High, Way

  "Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains Why The Cosmos Shouldn't Make You Feel Small". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. February 27, 2014.

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• School systems should base their curriculum not on the idea of separate subjects, but on the much more fertile idea of disciplines... which makes possible a fluid and dynamic curriculum that is interdisciplinary.

  Ken Robinson

  School, Ideas, Discipline

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.160, Penguin

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• Try not to be too angry or disappointed with your fellow Americans. Most of them don't care about politics as much as the majority of my readers, and the education they have received about it from the government's public school system is nothing more than a septic tank full of warmed-over self-serving statist lies and leftist propaganda.

  L. Neil Smith

  Lying, School, Government

  "Only Nixon". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. November 09, 2008.

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• In America, we started the public school system very early in the century, and as a consequence we had more skilled workers than any nation on Earth, which meant that we were more productive than any nation on Earth.

  Barack Obama

  School, America, Earth

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I mentioned charter schools, and experimenting with our school system, to make it work. I think that's something we really have to pay attention to.

  Barack Obama

  School, Thinking, Attention

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I definitely didn't fit in perfectly to the school system. I was raised with such freedom of speech and thinking.

  Julie Delpy

  School, Thinking, Freedom Of Speech

  "Julie Delpy’s Entropic Vacation". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 9, 2012.

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• In many inner cities, there are issues of less economic stability, poorer education, community centers being stripped away, arts being removed from the school system leaving many children imbalanced, isolated from their most powerful self... the independent thinker, the creator, the dreamer often leaving children more susceptible to other harmful things out of boredom or feelings of rejection.

  Mya

  Art, Children, Powerful

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

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• Public school system status quo is indefensible.

  Barack Obama

  School, Status Quo, Public School

  "The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream". Book by Barack Obama, 2006.

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• As Americans we place special emphasis on human dignity, justice and freedom. WE measure as good of bad that which meets these goals. Those high ideas have survived and flourished on this soil for two centuries since the Founding Fathers planted them because we have sustained a general public enlightenment through a free and universal public school system.

  Henry Clausen

  Father, School, Ideas

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• You all remember how many years ago, we were younger, it was uppity women who are trying to take our jobs as men. It was those gay people who wanted to make everybody homosexual in our school system. It was Blacks wanted to take white jobs. That's what demagoguery is about. It is to obfuscate the real problems facing our society and find somebody you can blame and rally the American people.

  Bernie Sanders

  Jobs, School, Gay

  "Sanders: Muslims Are Not Your Enemy And Progressive Values Are The Answer". www.realclearpolitics.com. December 09, 2015.

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• We deal with a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights-older than our political parties, older than our school system.

  William O. Douglas

  Party, School, Rights

  Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)

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• One fact we're particularly proud of is that there are more people learning languages on Duolingo in the US than there are people learning languages in the entire US public school system.

  Luis von Ahn

  School, People, Proud

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• Books will soon be obsolete in the schools... Our school system will be completely changed in the next ten years.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Book, School, Years

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