Charles Murray Quotes

While the public school rewards failure by throwing more government money at failing school systems, the voucher system does the opposite.

Charter schools were supposed to compete with public schools, and in turn, that competition was meant to improve education. But that wasn't the end result.

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

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

Competition has not worked in education because it has never really been tried.

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.

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 a fan of public school at all; I think it's one of the greatest catastrophes of American history.

I know that the DeVos agenda has absolutely devastated our public school system in Michigan.

Charter schools are not a panacea.

Public education is so important - resisting privatization and charterization, high-stakes testing, and defunding. It's important for New York, but it's also important for the country.

As the son of a union activist and a lifelong Democrat, I've always thought that privatizing our public schools is not the answer. We must strengthen public schools.

I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system.

The problem with K-12 education is socialism and the solution is capitalism.

School choice is the civil rights issue of the 21st century.

As more government functions are privatized, we find political leaders defunding the public school system, shifting government funds to the private, for-profit school industry.

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.

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.

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

In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly.

The key for all cities is whether you turn the public schools around.

The problems of public schools will not be solved by cutting off the source of their funding, which is what vouchers are.

The movement for the democratic idea inevitably became a movement for publicly conducted and administered 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 left has total control over the public education system, all the way up to the university level. It's something they own, and it's going to have to change.