Public School Quotes

When you introduce competition into the public school system, most studies show that schools start to do better when they are competing for students.
Bill Cosby

School, Start, Show

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.
Colin Powell

School, College, Public

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

Money, School, Country

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.
Herbert Hoover

School, Him, After

I went to public school up until junior high.
Kristen Stewart

School, Until, High

I'm not the only Labour MP who sent their child to public school but I'm the only one who's questioned about it.
Diane Abbott

School, Child, Public

My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didn't go to college. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard.
Ben Affleck

Dad, Mother, School

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.
Edward Norton

School, Remember, Public

High school was interesting, because I went from a public school middle school to an academy where the first year we were doing Latin, chemistry, biology. I mean, I was woefully unprepared for the type of study.
Kyle Chandler

School, Mean, Study

Every public school in the country should have a nutrition-education curriculum. We're creating a pilot program at my son's school. We are looking to create a replicable model that can help bring good nutrition to all children.
Cat Cora

Good, School, Children

I went to public school all my life and all through college and I liked it.
Dave Eggers

Life, School, Through

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

School, Through, Same

I've noticed that my resolutions involve me not doing stuff that I wasn't going to do anyway so here's something more positive. I'm going to retrain as a Latin teacher in a provincial public school.
Arthur Smith

Positive, Teacher, School

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

Happiness, Family, Money

If you make the decision to send your kid to public school don't even look at private schools. Just shut the door. Just turn off the TV. And then you don't even have to worry about preschool. You have to worry about what's good for your kid, but you don't have to worry about how to position yourself.
Cynthia Nixon

Good, School, Yourself

I'm a very big public school advocate.
Cynthia Nixon

School, Big, Public

The public school has become the established church of secular society.
Ivan Illich

Society, School, Become

NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space.
Christa McAuliffe

Teacher, School, Public

I wanted to be a great white hunter, a prospector for gold, or a slave trader. But then, when I was eight, my parents sent me to a boarding school in South Africa. It was the equivalent of a British public school with cold showers, beatings and rotten food. But what it also had was a library full of books.
Wilbur Smith

Great, Food, School

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.
Kenny G

Music, School, Nothing

Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
Walter Annenberg

School, Around, Here

When I look back now I realize I was such an obnoxious kid but, you know, I went to schools like you, like a public school in New York so compared to the anarchy that was going on there, they really wouldn't - I wasn't like a bad kid. I saw people come in and punch the teachers.
Colin Quinn

School, Bad, Public

I'm used to a very busy schedule. Right now it revolves around training and preparing for Nationals in January. I'm usually at the rink from 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. and then I attend public school for two hours, three times per week.
Sasha Cohen

School, Busy, Two

I had no interest in sports so I didn't make friends in that traditional way where kids are in public school and they go and they join clubs, and play sports. So I kind of had to find my own way to make friends and get attention and so I just was the class clown.
Zach Braff

Sports, School, Friends

My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of a public school background than I did.
Roger Bannister

School, Acceptance, Social

It makes sense that we came up with our public school system during the Industrial Revolution because it's like everybody is a factory worker, eating their terrible food and going back to the room where you're silent and listening to an idiot. That's an epitomizing idea, getting called 'Nothing' for your whole high school experience.
Ezra Miller

Food, Experience, 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.
Eliza Dushku

School, High, Public

Everything that we used to think got taught at home now seemingly has to be taught in the public school system, and something is going to get lost in the process.
Ann Richards

Home, School, Lost

The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.
Christopher Fry

School, Playing, Public

I went to public school my whole life, graduated high school with my class. Growing up, I'd go to an audition, my friends would go to soccer practice and we'd all reconvene and hang out in our neighborhood. When I would book something, I would never tell my friends. Acting was just fun. I was a kid, I wasn't jaded.
Shailene Woodley

Life, School, Fun

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