Quotes of: Public-schools Keyword

I was ridiculed in public school for being smart. A teacher's pet.

Julia Glass

The public school has become the established church of secular society.

Ivan Illich

People think I have the benefit of a public school education. I have this suave and debonair label, but really, I'm as common as muck.

Charles Dance

Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools.

Major Owens

America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.

P. J. O'Rourke

I'm convinced many of America's heroes are public school teachers and administrators. Many of these people do what they do because of their faith.

Adam Hamilton

The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.

Christopher Fry

In the U.S., the term 'general aviation' means its exact opposite, the way 'public school' does in England. An English public school is private and, on top of that, exclusive. Likewise, general-aviation airports in the U.S. are for everyone but the g...

Tom Wolfe

Public school felt like prison - cinderblock walls, fluorescent lights, metal lockers. It was so sterile and unstimulating.

Sufjan Stevens

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

Thomas Friedman

I grew up in a little cul-de-sac in the suburbs and went to public school. I went to Costco on the weekends.

Rooney Mara

I went to public school all my life and all through college and I liked it.

Dave Eggers

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

James Q. Wilson

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

Davey Havok

If a person wants to be publicly gay, they should not be teaching in the public schools.

Jim DeMint

Disinterested public service has become, just so... what's the phrase, 'old school.'

Tina Brown

They haven't eliminated religion from the public school. They have eliminated Christianity and have replaced it with an anti-God religion—humanism.

The Lie: Evolution

In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and its a policy where they do not encourage, in fact, discourage, critical thinking and the creation of ideas and public education.

Russell Means

I'm not the only Labour MP who sent their child to public school but I'm the only one who's questioned about it.

Diane Abbott

As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then.

David Dinkins

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.

Jackie Evancho