Public School

Public school may refer to:

  • State school in Australia, Canada, Scotland, and the United States, a school funded with tax revenue and administered by a government or governmental agency
  • Public school (United Kingdom) – a group of around 10% of the fee-paying independent schools in the United Kingdom which are considered especially prestigious.
  • Public university, in some countries, e.g. the United States, any university operated by the state, as opposed to being a private enterprise.

Famous quotes containing the words public school, public and/or school:

    “I have found it; I have discovered the cause of all the misfortunes which befell him. A public school, Joseph, was the cause of all the calamaties which he afterwards suffered. Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.”
    —Henry Fielding (1707–1754)

    “Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    “For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas.”
    —Gerald R. Ford (b. 1913)