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«Our public schools began as ministries of the church; now it is time to return them to the Lord»
Author: Jay Sekulow
| About:
Religion,
Schools
| Keywords:
began, church school, ministries, Ministry of, public schools, schools
«Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant generals - the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned, if at all.»
Author: Martin Gardner
(Calligrapher, Mathematician, Scientist)
| Keywords:
altered, biographical, compulsive, currents, flotsam, generals, General Public, historical, jetsam, Kings and Queens, King and Queen, largely, mentioned, paranoid, paranoids, Political history, political leader, public schools, Queens, radically, scientists, voyager, voyagers
«The misconceptions about grammar posted on the 'Net are at least as bad as the misconceptions about evolution, presumably because American public schools do an equally bad job of teaching both»
Author: Raphael Carter
| About:
Grammar
| Keywords:
grammar, misconception, misconceptions, net, posted, presumably, public schools, The Net
«No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles, nor manors, nor old country-houses, nor parsonages, nor thatched cottages nor ivied ruins; no cathedrals, nor abbeys, nor little Norman churches; no great Universities nor public schools / no Oxford, nor Eton, nor Harrow; no literature, no novels, no museums, no pictures, no political society, no sporting class / no Epsom nor Ascot! Some such list as that might be drawn up of the absent things in American life.»
Author: Henry James
| Keywords:
abbey, absent, American Army, American elder, American Life, American literature, aristocracies, aristocracy, ascot, castles, cathedrals, churches, church school, clergy, cottages, country house, court, diplomatic, diplomatic service, drawn, Eton, gentlemen, Great Court, Great Houses, harrow, harrowed, harrowing, harrows, houses, ivied, list, loyalty, museums, Norman, novels, old country, Old Court, old school, oxford, palaces, public schools, ruins, schools, sovereign, sporting, thatch, thatched, thatching, The Harrow, universities
«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.»
Author: Susan B. Anthony
| About:
Schools
| Keywords:
church school, concentrate, High Church, ideals, improving, public schools, schools
«I do not believe that any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States»
Author: Thomas Alva Edison
(Inventor)
| About:
America and Americans,
Religion
| Keywords:
introduced, introduces, public schools, schools, type
«It appears that some school officials, teachers, and parents have assumed that religious expression of any type is either inappropriate or forbidden altogether in public schools; however, nothing in the First Amendment converts our public schools into religion-free zones.»
Author: Bill Clinton
(President)
| Keywords:
altogether, amendment, assumed, converts, First Amendment, forbidden, free expression, inappropriate, in public, officials, public schools, school teacher, zones
«As governor of Texas, I have set high standards for our public schools, and I have met those standards.»
Author: George W. Bush
(President)
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
governor, governors and, Governor of, public schools, schools, standards, Texas
«When I was a boy on the Mississippi River there was a proposition in a township there to discontinue public schools because they were too expensive. An old farmer spoke up and said if they stopped building the schools they would not save anything, because every time a school was closed a jail had to be built.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
discontinue, discontinued, farmer, jail, Mississippi, Mississippi River, old school, proposition, public schools, spoke, township
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