Support Public Education Quotes

#1. Many states can no longer afford to support public education, public benefits, public services without doing something about the exorbitant costs that mass incarceration have created.

Bryan Stevenson

#2. As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.

G.K. Chesterton

#3. Cathedrals are built with pennies of the faithful. A great opera house also is a spiritual center, a temple of sorts, where many gather together for recreation, education, and inspiration - a blessed trinity worthy of public support.

Eleanor Robson Belmont

#4. All forms of books make a valuable contribution to education and the dissemination of culture and information. The diversity of books and editorial content is a source of enrichment that we must support through appropriate public policies and protect from uniformity.

Irina Bokova

#5. In the United States and other countries, there has been a decline in public and private support of the arts, including dance. Awareness that dance is not just entertainment but also a form of education and healing may reverse the trend.

Judith Lynne Hanna

#6. The strength of the scientific establishment in any country is related to its general level of education, not only in supplying large numbers of eager minds for further training, but also in ensuring a public opinion that holds science in esteem and approves financial support.

Arthur Lewis

#7. When an objection cannot be made formidable, there is some policy in trying to make it frightful; and to substitute the yell and the war-whoop, in the place of reason, argument and good order.

Thomas Paine

#8. If I had to do my life over, I would change every single thing I have done.

Ray Davies

#9. We will continue to go out onto the streets and to protest, and actively encourage the public to support us in our campaign for free education,

Joe Hockey

#10. The things I wanted to be when I was a kid were an archeologist, because of dinosaur bones; a garbage man, because they got to ride on the side of the trucks; and a writer.

Nick Tosches

#11. It is bad enough that so many people believe things without any evidence. What is worse is that some people have no conception of evidence and regard facts as just someone else's opinion.

Thomas Sowell

#12. Whoever is to be wise despises himself. Only the ignorant trust their own judgement.

Idries Shah

#13. The government can access these funds but only following approval by the parliament to support our budget requirements and investments in infrastructure development, education, public health, and so on.

Jose Ramos-Horta

#14. You can't create a successful politics of support for public education on the basis of asking voters not to care about skills, and tests that measure skills, at all.

Nicholas Lemann

#15. Because as Europe and the United States become more diverse, it creates an anxiety, a racial anxiety, that is reflected in declining support for public space, public institutions, public infrastructure, and public education.

John A. Powell

#16. Our public education system does a great job. I don't think it's broken. We aren't interested in doing reform for reform's sake. I believe in public education; it did a great job for me. It deserves our support and encouragement.

Denise Juneau

#17. The people of Missouri said they expect their elected leaders to support public schools because they know that education is the best economic development tool there is.

Jay Nixon

#18. I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.

Andrew Cuomo

#19. The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#20. Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.

Laura Mennell

#21. The Eleventh Commandment: don't speak ill of a fellow Republican. What if the fellow Republican is doing something that hurts America? Isn't it the patriot who sides with America before he sides with the Republicans?

Bill Maher

#22. I am a runner because I run. Not because I run fast. Not because I run far. I am a runner because I say I am. And no one can tell me I'm not.

John Bingham

#23. We are to take the baton of God's truth and pass it on to the next generation of believers.

Jim George

#24. One time, my mom told us, 'No TV.' It was 3 P.M., and I was sneaking it in. She put her hand on the back of the TV to see if it was warm, and it was. So she pulled the cord out of the wall, opened the second-floor window, and just threw it out the window.

Akiva Schaffer

#25. We have lots of evidence that putting investments in early childhood education, even evidence from very hard-nosed economists, is one of the very best investments that the society can possibly make. And yet we still don't have public support for things like preschools.

Alison Gopnik

#26. Social and economic well-being will become a reality only through the zeal, courage, the non-compromising determination of intelligent minorities, and not through the mass.

Emma Goldman