Children Quote by H. L. Mencken

Sunday School: A prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

— Anonymous

“It's called Sunday school, but we are required to attend twice weekly: on Sunday before regular service and again on Wednesday evenings. There are…

— Jessica Spotswood

In our family, at this point,[Sunday School] its not a choice for my kids. It's a duty for us as parents to give them…

— Gretchen Carlson

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

Schools resemble the culture of 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 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

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

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

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

— Albert Schweitzer

I had to go to Sunday school once or twice in my life, and that's where I commented someplace on hearing.

— Anonymous