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If you're poor, you don't often live near a good school. If it's a competitive public school program, our kids are not prepared to enter those programs.
Sonia Sotomayor
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I've noticed that my resolutions involve me not doing stuff that I wasn't going to do anyway so here's something more positive. I'm going to retrain as a Latin teacher in a provincial public school.
Arthur Smith
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The public school has become the established church of secular society.


Ivan Illich
We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.
Irwin Rose
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Are we a nation that educates the world's best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?
Barack Obama
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I was missing out on public school and going to the football games, prom or homecomings. But I've been to three World Championships... so I think it's like a win-win.
Simone Biles
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I went to a catholic public school St Helens and learned English by watching bugs bunny cartoons.


Nick Mancuso
Often times the public school teachers are ridiculed or they are made to feel inferior but this is really undeserved.
Peter Agre
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The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.
Mary Antin
I am very fortunate I can send my kids to private school, but everybody does not have the money. If you cannot get your kid in a good school today, your kids are going to be behind the eight ball.
Spike Lee
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When you introduce competition into the public school system, most studies show that schools start to do better when they are competing for students.
Bill Cosby
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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.
Jack Whitehall
I had no interest in sports so I didn't make friends in that traditional way where kids are in public school and they go and they join clubs, and play sports. So I kind of had to find my own way to make friends and get attention and so I just was the class clown.
Zach Braff
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If you want a good education, go to private schools. If you can't afford it, tough luck. You can go to the public school.
Paul LePage
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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be first.


Pearl Bailey
You are undoubtedly acquainted with my Reputation, and as for my Penmanship it must speak for itself; this is to desire your Approbation to keep a public school.
Eli Whitney
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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.
Eden Sher
My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system.
Marilyn Hacker
High school was interesting, because I went from a public school middle school to an academy where the first year we were doing Latin, chemistry, biology. I mean, I was woefully unprepared for the type of study.
Kyle Chandler
I remember the mentoring experiences of some teachers that I had, like a second term home room teacher in public school that really was very helpful to me.
Sanford I. Weill
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