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public education
«I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of course. If two countries fight that do not supply the Americans with some precious commodity, then the education of the public does not take place. But when the dictator falls, when the oil is threatened, then you turn on the television and they tell you where the country is, what the language is, how to pronounce the names of the leaders, what the religion is all about, and maybe you can cut out recipes in the newspaper of Persian dishes.»
Author: Don Delillo
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
American language, dictator, dishes, pronounce, public education, recipes, take place, The Americans, threatened
«If all who are engaged in the profession of education were willing to state the facts instead of making greater promises than they can possibly fulfill, they would not be in such bad repute with the lay-public.»
Author: Isocrates
| About:
Education
| Keywords:
engaged, fulfill, profession, promises, public education, repute, reputed
«The best of my education has come from the public library... my tuition fee is a bus fare and once in a while, five cents for an overdue book. You don't need to know very much to start with, if you know the way to the public library.»
Author: Lesley Conger
| About:
Education
| Keywords:
bus, buses, busses, bus fare, cents, fare, fared, fares, faring, fee, five, library, once in a while, overdue, public education, public libraries, public library, tuition, very much
«Nothing should be overlooked in fighting for better education. Be persistent and ornery: this will be good for the lethargic educational establishment and will aid the whole cause of public education.»
Author: Roy Wilkins
(Statesman)
| Keywords:
aid, educational, establishment, in-fighting, lethargic, ornery, overlooked, persistent, public education
«All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.»
Author: Earl Warren
(Judge, Politician)
| About:
Discrimination
| Keywords:
discrimination, Federal, in public, local, permitting, provisions, public education, requiring
«The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Education
| Keywords:
aim, as many, breed, citizenry, dissent, dissenting, dissents, enlightenment, individuals, level, originality, public, public education, put down, reduce, safe, spread, standard, the Enlightenment
«Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to worship God in his own way, cannot be accused of prejudice when we do not want to see public education connected with religious control of the sc»
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
(Diplomat, First Lady, Humanitarian)
| About:
Civil rights,
Education
| Keywords:
accused, public education
«In large states, public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
cooking, mediocre, public education
«Government has laid its hand on health, housing, farming, industry, commerce, education, and to an ever-increasing degree interferes with the people's right to know. Government tends to grow, government programs take on weight and momentum as public servants say, always with the best of intentions. But the truth is that outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or economically as the private sector of the economy.»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
| Keywords:
commerce, economically, economy, farming, housing, increasing, industry, intentions, interferes, laying on of hands, legitimate, momentum, Private industry, Private sector, programs, public education, public servant, sector, servants, take on, tends, tends to, the private sector