#public school

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it. ↗

— Colin Powell

#born #bronx #college #got #harlem

I went to public school, and it shaped me as a musician. ↗

— Ruben Studdard

#me #musician #public #public school #school

I'm used to a very busy schedule. Right now it revolves around training and preparing for Nationals in January. I'm usually at the rink from 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. and then I attend public school for two hours, three times per week. ↗

— Sasha Cohen

#attend #busy #hours #i #january

All socio-political phenomena in the U.K. come laden with the baggage of a class-based theory or two attached to them. In the case of gay Tories, there is one particularly silly variant of the category, which asserts that gayness is bred in public schools and thus fits with Conservatism like hand in glove. ↗

— Evan Davis

#attached #baggage #bred #case #category

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals. ↗

— Susan B. Anthony

#children #church #concentrate #feel #highest

The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school. ↗

— Mary Antin

#bright #civic #contentment #entered #i

Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school. ↗

— Walter Annenberg

#everybody #here #kids #nobody #our

The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference between bolstering them up on the one hand and letting them alone of the other. ↗

— Edmund Barton

#between #denominational #difference #hand #letting

The public school has become the established church of secular society. ↗

— Ivan Illich

#church #established #public #public school #school

Me, I was waiting tables of 13 and married at 19. I graduated from public schools, and taught elementary school. ↗

— Elizabeth Warren

#elementary school #graduated #i #married #me