Top 39 Quotes About Our School System

#1. Whatever the explanation, it's perfectly obvious that our educational system has nothing to do with education: it's a babysitting service designed to replicate the worst qualities of the parents.

Stephen R. Donaldson

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#2. If you are really standing up for the family, you then have to say, how do we change our school system, how do we fix tax policy so that our families are supported?

Otis Moss III

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#3. Folk music isn't owned by anybody. It is owned by everybody, like the national parks, the postal system, and the school system. It's our common property. There is nobody's name on it. Nobody can make money on it. It's not copywritten.

Utah Phillips

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#4. Books will soon be obsolete in the schools ... Our school system will be completely changed in the next ten years.

Thomas A. Edison

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#5. We deal with a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights-older than our political parties, older than our school system.

William O. Douglas

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#6. We were the first urban school system in the country to wire all of our schools for the Internet.

Thomas Menino

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#7. In Europe, kids learn at least four languages before they're out of high school. But our education system is so underfunded, they go to school to buy heroin and an AK-47.

Eddie Griffin

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#8. The state of our educational system is a disgrace to our country. We have an elementary and secondary school system in which close to half of the youngsters never graduate properly. It's a disgrace that there is more illiteracy today than there was 100 years ago.

Milton Friedman

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

Phyllis Schlafly

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#10. Public school - where the human mind is drilled and manipulated into submission to various social and moral spooks, and thus fitted to continue our system of exploitation and oppression.

Emma Goldman

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#11. In second grade, I told a bunch of kids there was a homeless person living between the portable classrooms outside our school. It caused panic, and the principal had to announce on the P.A. system that no one was living there. I pretended I didn't know who started the rumor.

Alessia Cara

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#12. The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.

John W. Gardner

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#13. If religious freedom is to endure in America, the responsibility for teaching religion to public school children must be left to the homes and churches of our land, where this responsibility rightfully belongs. It must not be assumed by the government through the agency of the public school system.

Sam Ervin

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#14. Our deepest concern shouldn't be Just the kids who can't go to school, but those who are going and not getting proper education

Samer Chidiac

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#15. There were only two other Chinese families in this town of 25,000, but to our parents, the determining factor was the quality of the public school system.

Steven Chu

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#16. When I was superintendent of Denver Public Schools, I saw the potential of some of our best and brightest students cut short, punished for the actions of others - kids who had grown up and done well in our school system, and kids who know no other home but America. This is unacceptable.

Michael Bennet

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#17. We have to ensure that our immigration system works in the interests of Britain, enabling us to make a realistic promise to our young school-leavers. It is part of our contract with the British people.

Iain Duncan Smith

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#18. When I started school in 1958 there were no books written by Aboriginals in the school system and everything about Native life was written by white people through their eyes.

Now, Aboriginal writers can tell their stories. They have always been our narratives to tell, not others.

Rick Revelle

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#19. Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left - which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study - are not likely to get much attention.

Thomas Sowell

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#20. Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too often they are enemies of democracy.

Howard Zinn

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#21. Refinancing won't fix everything that's broken with our [American] higher education system. We've got to bring down the cost of college. And we need more accountability for how schools spend federal dollars.

Elizabeth Warren

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#22. When students cheat on exams it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

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

Cory Booker

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#24. It must be frustrating to survive the gauntlet that is our western medical schooling system only to one day come to the realization that you have been taught only to manage illness and disease instead of curing it.

Gary Hopkins

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#25. As a means of dispensing formulated ignorance our boasted public school system is not without merit; it spreads out education sufficiently thin to give everyone enough to make him a more competent fool than he would have been without it ...

Ambrose Bierce

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#26. When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.

Patricia Ireland

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#27. Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.

Frank Zappa

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#28. The school system is the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing.

Marshall McLuhan

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#29. If start-up activity is the true engine of job creation in America, one thing is clear: our current educational system is acting as the brakes. Simply put, from kindergarten through undergraduate and grad school, you learn very few skills or attitudes that would ever help you start a business.

Michael Ellsberg

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#30. Texas is a national leader in education reform and student achievement. Through our college- and career-ready standards and assessments, strong school accountability, and a focus on educator development, we have created an education system that prepares our students for success after graduation.

Rick Perry

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#31. Teaching is a Creative profession, it is our duty as School Leaders and Education Influencers to offer the right climate to foster innovation and support Innovative Teaching practices within our schools, and that's what will make our students succeed in the 21st century

Samer Chidiac

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#32. In our country, the problem we have in our public school system across the country is that music and arts are on the bottom of the pole, if it's there at all. So the kids aren't exposed to music. I must speak to the music they hear at home too.

Ramsey Lewis

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#33. A lot of people believe that mental illness does not affect our children within the school system. But the truth is that a lot of bullying stems from untreated or poorly treated mental and behavioral health problems.

Tamara Hill

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#34. I really don't think our school system is an evil borg force. It's sort of like the government. It's not even efficient enough to be a borg of total evil, even if it wanted to be.

Sandra Tsing Loh

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#35. One of the things I didn't like about school is that every time they told a story about a rich guy in school, he was an evil guy. Our school system is programming us to think the rich are greedy and evil.

Robert Kiyosaki

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#36. We must not think of learning as only what happens in schools. It is an extended part of life. The most readily available resource for all of life is our public library system.

David McCullough

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#37. We've got a support system that gives our players a wonderful opportunity to graduate. If they go to class and give good effort, they can graduate from this school, and I believe that's important when you go out recruiting.

Steve Spurrier

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#38. We have multiple Black men and women losing their lives simply for being. Who gets to say you don't get to live anymore? I don't understand that. And it doesn't stop there. Can we go into the school system and look at the imbalance of what our children are learning? We are functioning crazy, people.

Regina Belle

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#39. Let's make sure that we are working for age-appropriate sex education in our school system.

Wendy Davis

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