Quotes About Education

I like Public School and En Noir.

I attended public school with the same group of kids from K through 12.

I went to public school, and it shaped me as a musician.

I was at a public school until I was in sixth grade when I moved to New York.

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

Public school was never in business to produce Thoreau. It is in business to produce a man like Richard Nixon and, even more, a population like the one which could elect him.

I miss my friends in public school, but it's kind of a part of something that you have to give up. I'd rather perform than go to public school.

We know that there will never be a great Newark unless there is a great public school system for our city.

Schools alone are not to blame for underachievement. The breakdown of the family, poverty, and decaying cities with eroding tax bases have made a good public school education nearly impossible in many parts of the country.

The thing that what we're taught in the public school system is everything you should know, I disagree with that. The most brilliant people in the world were dropouts - not that I'm pro-dropping out.

If a parent chooses to go to a school that is not a public school, then that is a decision made and a contract made with that provider.

There is no reason why any public school district in our state should be on a four-day school week. If anything, we should be extending the school year.

I went to public school, and I didn't do well in school. And it wasn't until, actually, I got into school at Juilliard - it was the first time in my life that I thought, 'Oh, maybe I'm not stupid,' because I was so inspired and passionate about what I was learning, and it was the first time in my life I had felt that.

The public school education system has done so much for me that it would be wrong not give anything back.

We're not the first band who went to public school.

My husband and I are both proud public school graduates.

I've worked in two public school districts, Minneapolis and Baltimore, one as a senior leader. And while we might not always have agreed with the union, and we might have had deep differences, they came to the table.

I'm not a fan of public school at all; I think it's one of the greatest catastrophes of American history.

In Bronxville, New York, we went to public school there, before London. Mother had a great belief in public school. She said it was very good for us to meet all the neighborhood kids.

I've been thinking that school, or certainly the traditional English public school model, is like a prison, in that you can't get out and it is hierarchical. As a result they have a lot of bullying. On the other hand if you mix ages and academic ability this is less of a problem.

Having grown up in a Black neighborhood, gone to a segregated Black public school that was overcrowded and underfunded, watched my neighbors be displaced when rents went up and they couldn't afford to pay them - all this shaped my career.

I went to a special public school that was much more focused on academics and learning. My two best teachers were in accounting and calculus, so I fell in love with that, which made me want to go into business.

I went to public school my entire life.

My wife has a public charter school for children with dyslexia. Almost every one of them has failed in a public school.