Public Education Quotes

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In The Field Of Public Education, The Doctrine Of 'Separate But Equal' Has No Place

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance.

If you want to know how to solve society's problems, you start out with better public education.

The public library is a center of public happiness first, of public education next.

Racial discrimination in public education is unconstitutional.....All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting such discrimination must yield to this principle.

I think that one thing that people are missing is that we are never going to be able to fix this country's [American] economy in the long run until we fix our public education system.

Many states can no longer afford to support public education, public benefits, public services without doing something about the exorbitant costs that mass incarceration have created.

It's hard to improve public education - that's clear.

Public education is an investment in our future.

We need excellence in public education and if the teachers can't do it, we'll send in a couple of policemen.

Public education has served as a check on the power of parents, and this is another powerful reason for maintaining it.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning.

We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we're always sick.

Public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.

Health care is not a privilege. It's a right. It's a right as fundamental as civil rights. It's a right as fundamental as giving every child a chance to get a public education.

Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom.

All democracies demand common public education because nothing makes people so much alike as the same education.

Mexico is a pretty poor country, but they are maintaining a free, high quality public education system, not for everyone of course but pretty substantial.

I am not a patient person. My friends and colleagues will confirm this. But, frankly, we should all feel a little more impatient with the state of public education in America today.

I am very proud of the quality of public education in Nebraska, but I believe we have an obligation to continually assess whether our system is meeting 21st Century education needs.

In the U.S., we believe the best way to improve lives is to improve public education.

[Homeschooling]...recipe for genius: More of family and less of school, more of parents and less of peers, more creative freedom and less formal lessons.

Future public education will require involvement and collaboration among various local, civic, private and nonprofit entities, a concept I like to refer to as community entrepreneurship.

You can't create a successful politics of support for public education on the basis of asking voters not to care about skills, and tests that measure skills, at all.

Evolution is not controversial in the field of science. It's controversial in the public sphere because public education is highly politicized.

Today's public education system is a failed monopoly: bureaucratic, rigid and in unsteady control of dissatisfied captive markets.

We're throwing money down a rat hole drain of public education! We lead the world in public education spending. We lead the world in getting the least for it.

The left has total control over the public education system, all the way up to the university level. It's something they own, and it's going to have to change.

All around the United States of America - in the cities and the counties - our public education is suffering and has been suffering. Cuts, cuts, cuts.

I was just your average hockey mom, and signed up for the PTA because I wanted to make my kids' public education better.

It is now quite obvious that the humanists are using public education as the battering ram with which to destroy Christianity in the United States.

As elite attitudes towards public education over time illustrate, simple formulas are far from adequate. There are conflicting tendencies.

California is maybe the richest place in the world. They're destroying the best public education system in the world.

Public education is so important - resisting privatization and charterization, high-stakes testing, and defunding. It's important for New York, but it's also important for the country.

The whole idea of a public education was to train young people about how our system of government works, so they could be good citizens and be part of it. We're not doing that today.

If we get public education right, everything else will follow. But if we get it wrong, not much else will matter.

You can't just provide power, you also need public education.

You can't have public health without working with the public sector. You can't have public education without working with the public sector in education.

I've been an advocate for public education for a long time. It's the way people are able to improve their lives.

We all know that great leaders can create great successes...success for the Chicago public education fund is to bring great leaders into Chicago's public schools.

We also call for free public education going forward. We know it pays for itself.

So if you want to find somebody to blame for the way i am, I guess you'd have to start with the public education system.

We are afraid to face the hard questions. We are willing to tackle drugs, crime, and public education only if it doesn't cost us any new taxes.

You look at public education system, charter schools, infrastructure, in so many ways New Orleans has come back stronger.

An attack on public education is an attack on democracy.

Coming to the civil rights movement in the twentieth century, we begin to have this idea that's still with us today, which is that the main purpose of public education is closing achievement gaps.

In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.

I think people don't talk enough about education and what we need to do in our public education system.