Sufjan Stevens Quotes

It just felt like the right thing to do to give back to a state school and public school. I'm a really big fan of public education.

When I was a child, I grew up speaking French, I mean, in a French public school. So my first contact with literature was in French, and that's the reason why I write in French.

Society is so divided in its perception of public school people. Most people who went to public school behave in the right way, but every now and then there will be someone who comes along and ruins it.

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

A public school teacher occupies a position of great trust, with potentially great influence over young people whose attendance is compulsory. A person should not be allowed to take advantage of such a position to promote his or her own—or any—religion.

In 12 years of public school I can never remember any of my teachers describing slavery for what it was.

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

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 am increasingly ready to junk the public school system.

Over the years, I've worked for and alongside the American Federation of Teachers and National Education Association. That's because I am proud of our public school teachers - including my niece who teaches down in Louisiana - just as I am proud of our nation's education system.

I was born and raised in Rogers Park in Chicago. My father sold furniture, and my mother was a Chicago public school teacher and proud member of the Chicago Teachers Union for decades.

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.

I grew up in the West Village and went to the New York City Lab School for junior high.

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

I grew up going to public school, and they were huge public schools. I went to a school that had 3,200 kids, and I had grade school classes with 40-some kids. Discipline was rigid. Most of the learning was rote. It worked.

The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unions. The problem is not underfunding or lack of computer equipment. The problem is your damn kids.

My husband and I are both proud public school graduates.

I want to pay tribute to the teachers who, during my life at school in the public education system, saw something in me and encouraged it.

I was a librarian in a city school.

I do believe ultimately the role is of our state government to ensure every child in this state has a great public school education.

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

I'm not a fan of public school at all; I think it's one of the greatest catastrophes of American history.

I was a diligent little boy at my primary school and then I went to public school and became mediocre at most things and pretty rubbish at others. I had a really tough time. I didn't enjoy it at all. But it made me the man I am today.

I grew up in Michigan and - where to start? I mean, my dad was a doctor who worked at a jail. He was more like a jail administrator. My mom was a public school teacher. There's no artists in my family whatsoever.

If you just believe in our democracy, and you want an informed electorate, public schools are in your interest, and I think our country is dependent on public schools, whether or not you personally have a kid in the public school system.