Quotes About Public Schooling

#1. Public schooling does not serve a public; it creates a pubic.

Neil Postman

#2. If the "world" believed something, then you had to believe its opposite to be righteous. It made people rage against everything from a global economy to public schooling and immunizations, but mostly I thought it was just an excuse not to have to do the work that seeing shades of grey requires.

Mette Ivie Harrison

#3. In public schooling, social policy has been turned back almost one hundred years.

Jonathan Kozol

#4. The sense of justice springs from self-respect; both are coeval with our
birth. Children are born with an innate sense of justice; it usually takes
twelve years of public schooling and four more years of college to beat it
out of them.

Edward Abbey

#5. Historically, much of the motivation for public schooling has been to stifle variety and institute social control.

Hugh Jackman

#6. In our secular society, school has become the replacement for church, and like church it requires that its teachings must be taken on faith.

John Taylor Gatto

#7. The public is indoctrinated to believe that skills are valuable and reliable only if they are the result of formal schooling.

Ivan Illich

#8. The more successful you and your organization become, the more humble and devoted to your customers you need to be.

Robin S. Sharma

#9. Kate won't be troubled. I don't know any gentlemen, anyway.'

'Thank you,' said Lymond.

Dorothy Dunnett

#10. The phenomenon of home schooling is a wonderful example of the American can-do attitude. Growing numbers of parents have become disenchanted with government-run public schools. Many parents have simply taken matters into their own hands, literally.

Steve Forbes

#11. Well as I said in France I didn't get auditions, and it's very difficult to get an agent in France because they conduct the business in a strange way.

Berenice Marlohe

#12. Those who can afford private schooling need not worry about their children being deprived of art, music and literature in the classroom: they are more sheltered, for now, from the doctrine of efficiency that has been radically refashioning the public school curriculum.

Azar Nafisi

#13. Had I ever spent the day in our neighborhood public high school as an invisible woman while my children were still enrolled there, I no doubt would have insisted on home schooling.

Jeanne Ray

#14. Our good time is sitting in a coffee shop with a newspaper, writing a line on the back of a napkin. That is the most fun comedians ever have

Jerry Seinfeld

#15. Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?

Lillian Hellman

#16. The sociological imagination refers to the ability of some to learn - often with good luck or coaching or perhaps with formal schooling - to realize that, just as often, one's personal troubles are in fact public issues.

Charles Lemert

#17. Moments of something this good, this unexpected and off his usual path, they always dredged up old shit, like somehow happiness came with sorrow as its anchor.

Heidi Cullinan

#18. There is one common thing in superstars - enthusiasm and humility towards their work. Off sets, they are big stars for others, and they carry themselves the way they want to. When they are working, they are not stars.

Abhishek Bachchan