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Public School Quotes (page 3)

When Scythrop grew up, he was sent, as usual, to a public school, where a little learning was painfully beaten into him, and from thence to the university, where it was carefully taken out of him; and he was sent home like a well-threshed ear of corn, with nothing in his head. Thomas Love Peacock
I have been criticized throughout the course of my career for placing too much faith in the reliability of children's narratives; but I have almost always found that children are a great deal more reliable in telling us what actually goes on in public school than many of the adult experts who develop policies that shape their destinies. Jonathan Kozol
Now, I have nothing against the public school system as it is presently organized, once you allow the humor of its basic assumption about how it is possible to teach things to children.... Shirley Jackson
As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly. Gilbert K. Chesterton
For what can give a finer example of that frankness and manly self- confidence which our great public schools, and none of them so much as Eton, are supposed to inspire, of that buoyant ease in holding up one's head, speaking out what is in one's mind, and flinging off all sheepishness and awkwardness, than to see an Eton assistant-master offering in fact himself as evidence that to combine boarding-house- keeping with teaching is a good thing, and his brother as evidence that to train and... Matthew Arnold
Let me go to Clinton's new proposal: to have uniforms in public schools. And people are doing that. How come they're doing that? Dress codes! I find that abhorrent. Russell Means
My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family. Dave Grohl
At my public school I had hated every other face for fear the owner was a lord, at university, I was to court the rich while doubting whether there should be great inequalities between incomes. Henry Green
We just moved out of L.A. because I didn't want to be raising my girls in the city. They're in public school now and they're in a normal situation. We're sort of settling into that. It's just a choice. Jennie Garth
Christopher Fry quote: "The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing..."
The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school. Christopher Fry
Samantha Fox quote: "I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my..."
I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school. Samantha Fox
John Engler quote: "And there should not be a limit on the creation of new public..."
And there should not be a limit on the creation of new public schools. We ought to expand choices for parents. John Engler
In Barack Obama, we have a great education president who is rebuilding America. His Race to the Top program is doing more to 'spur us' to improve our public schools than anything we've ever done as a nation. Jim Hunt
I went to public schools, and while Gary was, like most American cities, racially segregated, it was at least socially integrated - a cross section of children from families of all walks of life. Joseph Stiglitz
Kristen Stewart quote: "I went to public school up until junior high."
I went to public school up until junior high. Kristen Stewart

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