Quotes About Schools

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Thus, only drastic action could prevent the spread of influenza throughout the city. Banning public meetings, closing businesses and schools, imposing an absolute quarantine on the Navy Yard and on civilian

The Los Angeles public health director said, "If ordinary precautions are observed there is no cause for alarm." Forty-eight hours later he closed all places of public gatherings, including schools, churches, and theaters.

I had become increasingly concerned in recent years about the lack of civics education in our nation's schools. In recent years, the schools have stopped teaching it. And it's unfortunate.

I am an education ambassador, mainly working with schools.

The promise of education reform can never be fulfilled without adequate funding, and by shortchanging our schools, President Bush is breaking his promise to our children.

It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ideal of schools for everybody by having schools without education.

For the primary and secondary school years, we will aid public schools serving low-income families and assist students in both public and private schools.

Support charters; insist on change for failing schools.

I would get rid of the Department of Education. I would get rid of the state departments of education and let the local people control the schools.

I very much support financial education in schools.

Private scholarships for students at hopeless schools.

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

I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained there, merely cunning selfishness.

My goal is more youth oriented. I'm super big on education, I was in school to be an elementary education teacher so I'm starting to build schools, getting supplies in schools in Nicaragua.

I do look upon the secretary of education's primary responsibility as the quality of education that - and improving the education that every child in American public schools receives.

A young man passes from our public schools to the universities, ignorant almost of the elements of every branch of useful knowledge.

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

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

I'd like to do something for inner-city schools and education for young people because it's constantly being cut.

To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.

There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly but then less is learned there so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.

Internal democracy in schools is as important in order to ensure the true democratization of education.

Fine arts education in public schools is really abysmal. The same emphasis should be put on music, theater, dance - anything creative - that's put on math and science.