Our public schools began as ministries of the church; now it is time to return them to the Lord
- Jay SekulowIf Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.
- Lenny BruceA high-school teacher, after all, is a person deputized by the rest of us to explain to the young what sort of world they are living in, and to defend, if possible, the part their elders are playing in it
- Emile CapouyaSchool days are the unhappiest in the whole span if human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, with brutal violations of common sense and common decency.
- Henry Louis MenckenSunday School: A prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents
- Henry Louis MenckenTogether we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school
- Ivan IllichIf the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of how to acquire and use it, it will have done its work
- Richard LivingstoneIf 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