Children Quote by George Bernard Shaw

Schools resemble the culture of prisons.

— Henry Giroux

The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child…

— George Bernard Shaw

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

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

Our schools are much like our prisons: they disappoint us because they only do what they're designed to do, and it annoys us that…

— Daniel Quinn

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

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

— Henry Giroux

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

Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going…

— Oscar Wilde

The regime of control tightens inexorably in our schools, many of which now have video cameras, police patrols, chain-link fences, random unannounced locker searches,…

— Charles Eisenstein

For digital natives, public schools are jails

— Bing Gordon

Most people acquire most of their knowledge outside school, and in school only insofar as school, in a few rich countries, has become their…

— Ivan Illich