Cynthia Nixon Quotes

If you want a good education, go to private schools. If you can't afford it, tough luck. You can go to the public school.

My primary and secondary education was provided by the Highland Park Public School System.

I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me.

Growing up, I was always in normal public school which is very important in my eyes.

My husband and I are both proud public school graduates.

I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system.

Second, when comparing private school and public school test scores, it's like apples and oranges. Public schools have to take everyone, but private schools can be selective. It's not accurate or fair to compare the job they do.

I'm not a very good advertisement for the American school system.

When you introduce competition into the public school system, most studies show that schools start to do better when they are competing for students.

I went to a regular school, not one of those fame academy things.

So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall.

I was born and raised in California and benefited from California's excellent public schools, from kindergarten through medical school.

There were only two other Chinese families in this town of 25,000, but to our parents, the determining factor was the quality of the public school system.

If my child were in a school where he was not learning, I would not wait for a gathering of social scientists to tell me whether it was okay for me to send him to another school.

I'm a proud product of the Massachusetts public schools.

If you don't live in an area with good public schools, you can move to a different place if you have the financial means to do so.

Charter schools are not a panacea.

I think there are really are some public schools, incredibly successful public schools, that are inculcating a real educational ethic in their students.

As a child, I walked with my friends to Rosa Parks Elementary and then to Ben Franklin Middle School. I rode Muni to Galileo High School. And thanks to amazing teachers who believed in me and supported me along the way, I was able to matriculate to another public school: the University of California at Davis.

We know that there will never be a great Newark unless there is a great public school system for our city.

I had tutors, but education was just not a priority.

When I was six or seven, we went to the nearest English primary school, St Weonards, about seven miles away. The teaching was good, and this was the start of my beginning to shine as a student.

I didn't want to stay in America, because the level in Europe is much higher.

The most important thing for me is education, and my family were really supportive in making sure I did the best I could.

I know people talk about poverty and other factors, but there is very little I can do to ensure that a child has a stable two-parent home. But what if we can give them a shot in the classroom with a stable, high-standards environment?