Quotes About Public

There is no more reason to pay for private education than there is to pay for a private swimming pool for those who do not use public facilities.

A boy will learn more true wisdom in a public school in a year than by a private education in five. It is not from masters, but from their equals, that youth learn a knowledge of the world.

The education of the common people requires, perhaps, in a civilized and commercial society, the attention of the public more than that of people of some rank and fortune.

Out of the public schools comes the greatness of the nation.

That education is the most important of all professions is a message the public should hear and understand. And, as importantly, a message that our educators need to hear as well.

All around the United States of America - in the cities and the counties - our public education is suffering and has been suffering. Cuts, cuts, cuts.

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.

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

I don't know if I'm a national education figure.

I've spent the better part of my career in politics and public policy working on and fighting for education reforms.

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

The ideal may seem remote of execution, but the democratic ideal of education is a farcical yet tragic delusion except as the ideal more and more dominates our public system of education.

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

We also call for free public education going forward. We know it pays for itself.

An attack on public education is an attack on democracy.

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.

Today's public education system is a failed monopoly: bureaucratic rigid and in unsteady control of dissatisfied captive markets.

The loans I took out for my undergraduate degree were manageable. But my legal education was more expensive, and I paid for it almost entirely through public and private loans.

The essential mark of the agitator is the high value he places on the emotional response of the public. Whether he attacks or defends social institutions is a secondary matter.

Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.

Let he who would move the world, first complete an environmental impact assessment and a 90-day public comment period.

Environmental laws were not passed to protect our air and water, they were passed to get votes.

Everyone should ride the bus so that I can drive.

As a public person, I've always tried to reflect what is embodied in our defining ideals as a nation about equality and fairness and justice and so forth.