Ann Richards Quotes

In a home school, the kid does 95% of the work. But in a school system, since it's an indoctrination system, a teacher has to do 95% of the work.

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

Let's focus on how we can take someone who is being poorly educated in an American public school and how they are poorly trained for a job, and put in place those opportunities for them to get that education, give their parents choice in education, make it real for them.

The abolition of the separate school system in the south raises serious practical problems.... We face the abolition of the public school system. Boldness is essential but wisdom is indispensable.

I am increasingly ready to junk the public school system.

I grew up in the public schools, my mom taught in them, and then my daughter is in them.

I am a mother with kids in the public schools. People should know that. I'm not just some policy maker who's totally detached from the rest of the community.

A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.

But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!

The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference between bolstering them up on the one hand and letting them alone of the other.

I feel sorry for the poor kids whose parents feel they're qualified to teach them at home. Of course, some parents are smarter than some teachers, but in the main I see home-schooling as misguided foolishness.

Albuquerque is my home. I want my kids and all of our children to be able to go to any public or charter school and receive an excellent education.

My primary and secondary education was provided by the Highland Park Public School System.

The public school system doesn't get everybody. Every generation has its rebels.

Growing up, I was always in normal public school which is very important in my eyes.

I was home-schooled. My mom wasn't a fan of public school systems.

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.

When people lose faith in a system as they have in the public school system, they no longer want to support it.

I'm not knocking private schools, but I owe it to my kids to let them grow up in a place where private school isn't required. They're only in school 6-8 hours a day; they have to live in their neighborhood 24 hours a day. I didn't want them growing up in a place where anybody with the means had abandoned their public schools.

These day schools did invaluable service in the days of the Colony and Commonwealth, and, indeed, in the early days of the Republic; but to their continuation must undoubtedly be ascribed the tardy recognition of the government and people of the fact that no agency for the education of the masses is as effective as the public school.... There is not one public school building owned by the government or by any city or township.

The thing that what we're taught in the public school system is everything you should know, I disagree with that. The most brilliant people in the world were dropouts - not that I'm pro-dropping out.

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

My husband and I are both proud public school graduates.

I'm a proud product of the Massachusetts public schools.

Well, just as in the quality of public schools, there is massive disparity and the compensation given to the public school teachers.