Civil liberties Quote by Camille Paglia

When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools…

— Angela Davis

There is a tremendous amount of confusion and denial that exists about mass incarceration today, and that is the biggest barrier to movement building.…

— Michelle Alexander

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures…

— John Updike

Are traditional schools very much like mini-prisons? Do they stifle imagination, cramp the child physically and mentally, and run on various forms of overt…

— Robert Anton Wilson

The school-to-prison pipeline - the disproportionality that exists in handing out school discipline in schools to Black and Brown students for simple infractions -…

— Jamaal Bowman

Schools resemble the culture of prisons.

— Henry Giroux

Increasingly, poor minority and white youth are being funneled directly from schools into prison.

— Henry Giroux

Students being miseducated, criminalized and arrested through a form of penal pedagogy in prison-type schools provide a grim reminder of the degree to which…

— Henry Giroux

America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed.

— David Brin

For digital natives, public schools are jails

— Bing Gordon

In a society where some people are far more educated than others, in which public education is ill-funded - here I am speaking of…

— Adrienne Rich