Annoying Quote by Daniel Quinn

Schools resemble the culture of prisons.

— Henry Giroux

Instead of schools being a pipeline to opportunity, schools are feeding our prisons.

— Henry Giroux

Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which…

— George Bernard Shaw

Kids are growing up in communities in which they see their loved ones cycling in and out of prison and in which they are…

— Michelle Alexander

Surely, we've got a way that we can tinker with this system that shuttles our children from decrepit, underfunded schools to brand-new high-tech prisons.

— Michelle Alexander

We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.

— Gale Sayers

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

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

There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison.…

— George Bernard Shaw

Challenging schools to treat their students as customers with a choice, instead of inmates serving time.

— David Warlick

“Yes, well, in that respect and many others, American high schools do rather resemble prisons.”

— John Green

School is established, not in order that it should be convenient for the children to study, but that teachers should be able to teach…

— Leo Tolstoy