Quotes About Education

Those diplomas on my wall would not be there without the GI Bill that educated my father, without the public library, without the RIPTA bus.

I didn't belong to the sort of family where the children's classics were laid on. I went to the public library and read everything I could get my hands on.

In some ways I grew up in the public library in Troy, Michigan.

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.

Lucky enough, through the public school system, I had been able to have some music education, and that gave me something to focus on, and discipline - like a family to feel part of. There was a healthy family.

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

I am increasingly ready to junk the public school system.

Parents have absolutely every right to express their opinions at public school board meetings concerning their children's education.

We evaluate all business decisions based on how we can best serve public school teachers and their students.

I can't imagine going to an all-girls school. I went to a public school.

I went through my entire public school career going to bed crying because I was getting Ds.

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

I spent a few years after college as a Boston public school teacher and I loved it. But I was never committed to it, committed to it as a career.

The music departments in the public school system gave me a really extraordinary foundation and music appreciation that I still draw from, even today.

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

I'm a very big public school advocate.

I just started as a part of the public school music program. I took lessons at the school every Friday and was a part of the school band. I was just a normal kid taking instrumental lessons at school, nothing special.

I went to public school up until junior high.

I remember as a kid having the offer of a scholarship, that it was going to be like going to Mars, and deciding to stay in my public school.

Well, when I moved to L.A. at 17, I had just come out of high school. I grew up and went to public school in Boston.

Well, first of all, I grew up in New York City, going to first a public school, then a private school, and when I got to the private school in Manhattan, I learned of what we called 'The Promised Land,' which are the Hamptons. I've always had an affinity for the Hamptons.

Luckily, the public school system that I was in had a really great drama program, so I plunged into that. It really sort of kept me afloat because I was bored in school.

As more government functions are privatized, we find political leaders defunding the public school system, shifting government funds to the private, for-profit school industry.

Having gone to a public school, I thought I knew about posh people. But I didn't know anything until I went to Oxford.