Quotes of: Public-schools Keyword

I wanted to be a great white hunter, a prospector for gold, or a slave trader. But then, when I was eight, my parents sent me to a boarding school in South Africa. It was the equivalent of a British public school with cold showers, beatings and rotte...

Wilbur Smith

My education in the public schools of New York City between 1932 and 1944 was an excellent preparation for a life in science. Because of the Depression, these schools were able to attract a remarkably talented and dedicated collection of teachers who...

Robert Fogel

The religious neutrality in our schools is, I would argue, one of our strengths. Teachers cannot inhibit or deride religion. But this does not mean that we've taken God out of public schools. I'm reminded of the book of Esther in the Bible. God is no...

Adam Hamilton

If you make the decision to send your kid to public school don't even look at private schools. Just shut the door. Just turn off the TV. And then you don't even have to worry about preschool. You have to worry about what's good for your kid, but you ...

Cynthia Nixon

During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the classroom. In low-income neighborhoods like Sunset Park, where I taught, students as young as five years old enter school affected by ...

Sal Albanese

The backwoodsmen are muttering about making Britain's draconian union laws - already among the toughest in Europe - harsher still. And parts of the media will continue to attack public service pensions, as if school meals staff, refuse collectors and...

Frances O'Grady

Spending an extra dollar on the D.C. public school system isn't spending an extra dollar on education. Spending an extra dollar with the Pentagon doesn't buy you an extra dollar on defense. Republicans need to look skeptically at military spending.

Grover Norquist

Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety.

Joseph Lancaster

Our teachers at the public school level are the most underpaid for the importance of their job in America.

Dean Smith

American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a business may be the worst of them, for it threatens to destroy public education. Who will Stand up to t...

The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education

The teachers' unions that block school reform have done serious damage to the union brand. The public no longer views unions as their friend, much less their champion. They view them as corrupt, intransigent and more interested in protecting their po...

Juan Williams

When I look back now I realize I was such an obnoxious kid but, you know, I went to schools like you, like a public school in New York so compared to the anarchy that was going on there, they really wouldn't - I wasn't like a bad kid. I saw people co...

Colin Quinn

I went to a catholic public school St Helens and learned English by watching bugs bunny cartoons.

Nick Mancuso

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

Peter Agre

We don't have drama in public schools in France. I had never taking an acting class.

Stephanie Szostak

Growing up, I was always in normal public school which is very important in my eyes.

Tahj Mowry

You won't believe what our kids are eating in the public schools. It's just nuts.

Mary McCormack

I was quite convinced that I didn't want to be a lawyer. But I felt that law school would be a useful way to understand public policy and to understand business in this environment.

Kevin Warsh

So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall.

Chuck Schumer

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

Drew Brees

Albuquerque is my home. I want my kids and all of our children to be able to go to any public or charter school and receive an excellent education.

Steven Michael Quezada