Quotes of: School-system Keyword

In a home school, the kid does 95% of the work. But in a school system, since it's an indoctrination system, a teacher has to do 95% of the work.

John Taylor Gatto

My primary and secondary education was provided by the Highland Park Public School System.

James Cronin

All four of my grandparents were educators, my mom was a school nurse, and I went through the public school system.

Erin Cummings

If the government is going to mandate levels and punish schools for failing, they should send that money to the school system.

Robert Duncan

We were the first urban school system in the country to wire all of our schools for the Internet.

Thomas Menino

I'm not a very good advertisement for the American school system.

David Brinkley

Unionized teachers have destroyed much of the state school system.

Conrad Black

Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money.

Phyllis Schlafly

We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.

Xavier Niel

Let's make sure that we are working for age-appropriate sex education in our school system.

Wendy Davis

In the autumn of 1970 I had a job singing in the school system, playing my guitar in classrooms.

Don McLean

We are now operating a school system in America that's more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther King.

Jonathan Kozol

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

Britt Robertson

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

Rush Limbaugh

Something went greatly wrong in our collective history and the starting point of it was the industrial revolution. Our school systems are focussed on a single objective: to produce model citizens for society in order to feed this machine and prevent ...

Martinus Hendrikus Benders

I went to the local schools, the local state primary school, and then to the local grammar school. A secondary school, which technically was an independent school, it was not part of the state educational system.

John Hume

Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, and closing schools.

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

In the matter of the maintenance and rearing of children the Anarchists would neither institute the communistic nursery which the State Socialists favor nor keep the communistic school system which now prevails.

Benjamin Tucker

It is home schooling that is rejecting a narrowness. It is not a radical value system; it's actually quite conservative.

Michael Leunig

Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.

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

Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as professionals who think for themselves?

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