Russell Means Quotes

We shall say clearly that any symbol conspicuously displaying religious affiliation in school is prohibited.

Unfortunately, too many public school officials believe that cameras are needed to enforce order and discipline.

Schools should be open. If it's a public education, and the school in your district is poor-performing, you should be able to put your student or kid wherever you want.

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.

And there should not be a limit on the creation of new public schools. We ought to expand choices for parents.

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'll tell you right now. I'm for prayer in school.

In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and its a policy where they do not encourage, in fact, discourage, critical thinking and the creation of ideas and public education.

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.

This issue is whether or not our government should be infusing religion into (schools).

The public schools belong to all Americans. As guardians of our constitutional principles, teachers and administrators have a special obligation and responsibility to protect the religious liberty rights of students of all faiths and none, and to ensure that religion and religious conviction are treated with fairness and respect…

At the last meeting of the Board of Education, Mr. Maegher called attention to the chanting of the Lord's Prayer in the public schools, which is a violation of a rule which forbids the introduction of religious matters. We are glad this subject has come up at last. The Lord's Prayer has been brought into disrespect about long enough by being snarled through the dirty noses of a hundred bad boys and preposterous girls.

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

Resolve that neither the state nor nation, nor both combined, shall support institutions of learning other than those sufficient to afford every child growing up in the land of opportunity of a good common school education, unmixed with sectarian, pagan, or atheistical dogmas.

Whatever help the nation can justly afford should be generously given to aid the States in supporting common schools; but it would be unjust to our people and dangerous to our institutions to apply any portion of the revenues of the nation or of the States to the support of sectarian schools.

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.

State schools will be thrown open to Jews, Agnostics, Roman Catholics and Atheists.

One of my main legislative efforts in education is to help expand and replicate successful charter schools. Charter schools are public schools with site-based governance.

We all have a stake in ensuring that all students have the schools they deserve and that communities are leading this effort, not being left behind. To do that, we must challenge unchecked charter expansion and the forces driving it.

If America's Founding Fathers espoused openness to religion, creationism, and the Bible being taught in schools, then it beckons the question, Why don't we?

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

The push to defund public schools and reroute taxpayer money to charters and private institutions is actually a very clever strategy by the Right Wing, which has always had a great deal of disdain for a system that forces them to pay taxes toward some other kid's non-religious, science-based education.

Charter schools are not a panacea.

We're not proposing any shifting of funding from public schools to private schools.