Neil Warnock Quotes

Before the eighth grade, I probably went to seven or eight different schools.

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

When I was a child, the thing I wanted more than anything was to grow up and live in one house. Since my dad was in the Navy, that wasn't possible. Instead, I lived in a different home every couple of years.

I went to 11 different schools. It was a fantastic adventure, but I was incredibly sensitive and needed a bit more stability.

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.

My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off.

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.

If my child were in a school where he was not learning, I would not wait for a gathering of social scientists to tell me whether it was okay for me to send him to another school.

When I was 11, I had just started my comprehensive school.

Restoring prayer ... will scarcely at this date solve the grievous public school problem. Public schools are expensive and massive centers for cultural and ideological brainwashing, at which they are unfortunately far more effective than in teaching the 3 R's or in keeping simple order within the schools. Any plan to begin dismantling the public school monstrosity is met with effective opposition by the teachers' and educators' unions. Truly radical change is needed to shift education from public to unregulated private schooling, religious and secular, as well as home schooling by parents.

I liked science. It was about the only thing that stayed the same wherever we moved.

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

I don’t know any parent who wants to send his children to a below average school.

[Characterizing public schools:] godless monstrosities ... values-indoctrination centers ... a multi-billion dollar inculcation machine.

Public schools have become the established church of secular society

Education depends on 5 factors: The attendance at school, the time spent watching television at home, the time of reading at home, the amount of reading material in home, and the number of parents in home.

Parents have got to become more involved in their children’s education.

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

Great Schools. Great Texas

Government schools lead to the indoctrination of children and interferes with the free choice of individuals. Government ownership, operation and subsidy of schools and colleges should be ended.

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.

I went to a Catholic girls' school before we moved to Florida when I was 15.

My daughter was born in the States, and she went into the educational system here.

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

I was born in Sacramento but moved to Los Angeles with my mom and my little sister when I was seven.