#school system

Everything that we used to think got taught at home now seemingly has to be taught in the public school system, and something is going to get lost in the process. ↗

— Ann Richards

#get #going #got #home #lost

My early education was in the public school system of Omaha, where, retrospectively, I realize that my high school training served me in good stead for the basic subjects of mathematics, English, foreign languages and history. ↗

— Lawrence R. Klein

#early #education #english #foreign #foreign languages

We are now operating a school system in America that's more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther King. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#any #death #king #luther #martin

We were the first urban school system in the country to wire all of our schools for the Internet. ↗

— Thomas Menino

#first #internet #our #school #school system

Today in America, we are trying to prepare students for a high tech world of constant change, but we are doing so by putting them through a school system designed in the early 20th Century that has not seen substantial change in 30 years. ↗

— Janet Napolitano

#america #century #change #constant #designed

Earlier today, Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized the California school system, calling it disastrous. Arnold says California's schools are so bad that its graduates are willing to vote for me. ↗

— Conan O'Brien

#arnold #arnold schwarzenegger #bad #california #calling

I don't think Michael Bloomberg would say that his greatest skill is delivering the speech. He would say he's more of a nuts-and-bolts mayor-picking up the trash, dealing with the school system. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#delivering #greatest #his #i #michael

I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system. ↗

— William H. Gray

#choice #choose #i #i believe #ought

It is true, there was no public-school system, and the reason for it was very plain. The wealth of the upper classes enabled them to have private tutors. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

#enabled #plain #private #reason #school system

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

#because #city #go #jew #medical