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 and/or school:

    “But a public oration is an escapade, a non-committal, an apology, a gag, and not a communication, not a speech, not a man.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “We’ll set thee to school to an ant, to teach thee there’s no laboring i’ the winter.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)