Public School Quotes

My father said, "Okay, enough with the Jewish school." He put me into a public school and he said, "If you are the first one in your class, that means the school is bad." That was his humor.

Let's pass more gun control laws and buy metal detectors for every public school in the land - anything but tell kids that life is sacred, because its Creator deems it so.

[If Republicans] got to put their kids into public school. They got to take public health. They would become libertarian faster than you could say Ayn Rand.

When I was sent to public school, I was relieved that I could wear what I wanted to wear.

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

I'm a very big public school advocate.

Now this is the first rule of fight club: There is nothing a blue collar Nobody in Oregon with a public school education can imagine that a million-billion people haven't already done.

Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy.

I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me.

Well, my mom taught public school music for almost 40 years. And she's about 5 feet - and very mighty. And she would control her kids a lot by giving them the eye, or the stare.

I was home-schooled. My mom wasn't a fan of public school systems.

I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system.

Public school system status quo is indefensible.

I can't imagine going to an all-girls school. I went to a public school.

Well, when I moved to L.A. at 17, I had just come out of high school. I grew up and went to public school in Boston.

Privatization radically alters power relations in our society by weakening groups like public employees and public school teachers.

I think my formative experiences were really in junior high, where at a typical public school we were doing little genetic experiments, very classic experiments.

When I first came to Oxford, I struggled to feel comfortable in an Anglican, public school-dominated institution.

I went to public school up until junior high.

I was sent to the regular public schools until I had to go to Belmont Hill. Because I wasn't doing anything. The public school was nothing, just a total waste of time.

Often times the public school teachers are ridiculed or they are made to feel inferior but this is really undeserved.

Education is huge for me. I went to public school until I turned thirteen, and was lucky enough to afford college once I became successful as an actress.

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

The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference between bolstering them up on the one hand and letting them alone of the other.

Close Dept. of Education, but don't dismantle public schools.

I came from a very comfortable, middle-class family living in Highland Park, Illinois.Really growing up in a Jewish community with a fabulous public school.

I miss my friends in public school, but it's kind of a part of something that you have to give up. I'd rather perform than go to public school.

I went to public school for like, one day. I don't get it. Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.

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

I think a lot of people were like, "Oh, you're 13, you're gonna rebel." But I was never in public school and I was never really forced to do much of anything, as a kid.

I remember as a kid having the offer of a scholarship, that it was going to be like going to Mars, and deciding to stay in my public school.

There is nothing to be gained by pretending that academic involvement is necessary, or even always desirable, in the quest for truth and knowledge.

Behavior isn't something someone "has." Rather, it emerges from the interaction of a person's biology, past experiences, and immediate context.