What is a literary festival? Imagine a sort of cross between school and church. There are no actual festivities; what there are is a lot of public readings.
It should go without saying that there are as many working-class people who hold socially liberal views as there are public-school bigots.
My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.
Many well-meaning intelligent people have argued since the May 17, 1954, decision of the United States Supreme Court outlawing segregation in the public schools that communication between the races has broken down.
I remember the mentoring experiences of some teachers that I had, like a second term home room teacher in public school that really was very helpful to me.
I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.
It's so important to that we go into the public schools and we feed all of the kids something that is really good for them.
I didn't go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen.
I wanted to find ways for colleges and universities to become involved with public schools to help young people prepare for college.
As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.
Privatizing our public schools makes as much sense as privatizing the fire department or or the police department
As a teacher of fourth-graders in a public school, where corporal punishement was not allowed, she had years of violence stored up and was, truth be told, sort of enjoying letting it out on Kona, who she felt could have been the poster child for the ...
I wasn't the kind of kid like Spielberg or Lucas who knew to go to film school. I didn't know at 12 what I was going to do; it took me until I was about 23. I studied journalism in college, but after school, I got a job in public television and I nev...
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.
It is true, there was no public-school system, and the reason for it was very plain. The wealth of the upper classes enabled them to have private tutors.
There were only two other Chinese families in this town of 25,000, but to our parents, the determining factor was the quality of the public school system.
When I first came to Oxford, I struggled to feel comfortable in an Anglican, public school-dominated institution.
There are people in the public sector with a range of experiences that have no equivalent in business, but are essential to governing, like keeping a kid in school or helping someone get and hold a job. The value of those skills can't easily be measu...
From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.
I'm experimenting in public. At the design grad schools, these are people sitting around in groups, putting their work on a wall, analyzing it and putting it back in a drawer. I think there's little risk in that.
Instead of unfairly demonizing teachers, we should be working with them to find solutions to the problems in our schools and make sure every child gets an outstanding public education.
