This collection holds 114 public education quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Matt Blunt, Deb Haaland and Bill Gates.

They are ordered so that each author has a say before anyone repeats, which means the first page gives you the range of the topic rather than one writer's back catalogue.

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Public education is an investment in our future.

We - our children need a quality public education.

It's hard to improve public education - that's clear.

Right-wingers don't want public education to succeed.

An attack on public education is an attack on democracy.

It is possible to have a public education system that works.

You can't just provide power, you also need public education.

We need better public education and more realistic education.

Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance.

The quality of your public education shouldn't be defined by your zip code.

I've made a lifetime commitment to the union movement and to public education.

We also call for free public education going forward. We know it pays for itself.

I think there is widespread agreement that there is a crisis in public education.

Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom.

I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.

No family should feel they need to leave San Francisco to find a great public education.

No country which is now developed has done so without providing high quality public education.

We think we can contribute something toward the improvement of public education in our country.

If you want to know how to solve society's problems, you start out with better public education.

That's why I created the New America School - to fill the cracks in our public education system.

We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.

There will be no higher priority in a Beshear/Coleman Administration than our public education system.

Teach For America provides one of the most critical pipelines for bringing new talent into public education.

In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.

If we get public education right, everything else will follow. But if we get it wrong, not much else will matter.

No student should be forced to choose between following her faith and enjoying the benefits of a public education.

I'm a mom, and my view of public education begins and ends with the fundamental question: Is this good for children?

You look at public education system, charter schools, infrastructure, in so many ways New Orleans has come back stronger.

Homelessness is like public education - something that for far too long we haven't put the resources or love or attention to.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

I'm a proponent of single-payer health-care, public education, protecting the environment - all the things Democrats rally around.

It just felt like the right thing to do to give back to a state school and public school. I'm a really big fan of public education.

We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning.

Sometimes political correctness runs amok in our public education system where we think that every kid can go to a four-year university.

I want to pay tribute to the teachers who, during my life at school in the public education system, saw something in me and encouraged it.

Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.

We are afraid to face the hard questions. We are willing to tackle drugs, crime, and public education only if it doesn't cost us any new taxes.

I'm opposed to any policy that would deny in our country any human being from access to public safety, public education, or public health, period.

To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America held back by mass ignorance and mass illiteracy.

Until lawmakers can disentangle property taxes from public education, inequalities - perpetuated by the Supreme Court and Congress - will persist.

Legislatures not driven to desperation by the problems of public education may be able to see the threat in vouchers negotiable in sectarian schools.

All around the United States of America - in the cities and the counties - our public education is suffering and has been suffering. Cuts, cuts, cuts.

You can't have public health without working with the public sector. You can't have public education without working with the public sector in education.

All you've got to do is go back and look in the early 1900s and see what we had in Texas without public education and realize what it has done for the state.

We're throwing money down a rat hole drain of public education! We lead the world in public education spending. We lead the world in getting the least for it.

I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman's right to choose, a good public education system.

Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry.

In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.

We have seen a central government taking more and more control over public education, over communications, over transportation, over every detail of our daily lives.

Public education is our greatest pathway to opportunity in America. So we need to invest in and strengthen our public universities today, and for generations to come.

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