William Press Quotes

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

I'm for prayer in schools.

I was never very happy at school.

If a minister can lead the Senate in prayer every day... what is so wrong with beginning every day of school with an ecumenical prayer?

The Constitution of the State did not recognize the Christian Religion any more than it recognized …. The school board had an obligation as well as a right to keep religious partisanship out of the public schools.

Instead of school busing and prayer in schools, which are both controversial, why not a joint solution? Prayer in buses. Just drive these kids around all day and let them pray their fuckn' empty little heads off.

In 1962, the Supreme Court banned organized prayer from public schools. Since then, federal, state, and local courts and officials, including public school administrators, have joined in a nationwide search and destroy mission for student religious practices.

With that in mind and in celebration of National Prayer Day, today I have proposed in the House of Representatives a Constitutional Amendment that would restore voluntary prayer in our Nation's schools.

I was probably more scared of my high school exams than I was of the Oscars. At the time you think it's everything and if you don't do well, your life's over. Opportunities are gone. So the more you do it, the less the fear is present.

Of course you're nervous going into a final.

Children find prescriptive reading lists daunting, and they are a dangerous thing to have in schools.

Common Core reminds us what testing can do right. Modeled on standards of the world's education superpowers, questions demand critical thinking and creativity. Students are asked to write at length, show their work, and explain their reasoning.

The Supreme Court has insulted you over and over again, Lord. They've taken your Bible away from the schools. They've forbidden little children to pray. They've taken the knowledge of God as best they can, and organizations have come into court to take the knowledge of God out of the public square of America.

I hate tests. It's a really lousy way to judge a person's ability.

I am a really bad test taker. I can get straight As in school, but I get nervous on test.

In the early days, I often felt that I was taking a math test when we were playing. It was a profound feeling of having to prove myself.

As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school.

Partisan politics has no place in the classroom.

Under the new government of the Constitution, beginning in 1789, all of the peacetime measures were repeated: chaplains, prayers, memorials of Thanksgiving, the Northwest Ordinance, funding for the Christian education of Indians.

We have placed more emphasis on grades and school ranking than on genuine education.

The right to engage in voluntary prayer or religious discussion free from discrimination does not include the right to have a captive audience listen or to compel other students to participate.

Schools should be open all day, all year.

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.

As a society, we're not squeamish about suggesting norms for what individuals should weigh, how much money they must earn in order not be judged impoverished, and how much cholesterol is okay in their blood.... In education, we have lots of tests, but we don't really have any norms.

I’d like to see us re-institute school prayer so that our young children have some moral beliefs, they have some principles