Jim Clyburn Quotes

I went to public school all my life and all through college and I liked it.

My mother, who was professional schoolteacher, was particularly concerned about our formal education and even went so far as to start a private school together with some other parents so that our intellectual needs would be met.

I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me.

I made a different decision to send my children to the local state school.

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.

Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy.

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

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.

Educated fools; from uneducated schools.

I don't remember one thing I learned in school.

My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times, I traveled every day to the Auckland Grammar School.

I went to public school up until junior high.

My brothers went to the parish school, one of the best in the county.

My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in education.

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

So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall.

I talked my parents into sending me to Roedean at 16. I had this idea that if I could get into Cambridge, then I could join Footlights. My problem was that I went to a comprehensive in Brighton. I thought I'd have to start from a good school, and the best I could think of was Roedean.

My mother had been a grade-school teacher, and my father had an eighth-grade education.

I envision presenting parents with a marketplace of school choices - public, private, parochial, charter, virtual, blended, and home education. They then can choose the model that best equips their children for success.

I went to public school my whole life. It was a performing arts school, so I can't say if it was a typical experience or not, because it's all I know.

I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.

I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Private schools are useful and we often use public funds to pay for their infrastructures and other common needs.

I'm probably one of the few people who can say I did all three types of state sector schooling.

The point we must aim at is to obtain admittance for our children to the nearest and the best schoolhouse.

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.