Awards Quote by John Taylor Gatto

School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned.

— John Taylor Gatto

School is now a place where punishment and discipline are prioritized over serving students and educating them. Any moment where a student falls outside…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other.…

— Mark Twain

There are always people doing things wrong who need to be taught, for their own good. That's doable.

— Kathleen Turner

Being a teacher is like being in jail; once it's on your record, you can never get rid of it.

— Henry David Thoreau

Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children.

— Mahatma Gandhi

By the time I got to high school I knew what I was gonna do. Mainly because I looked around and saw there wasn't…

— Hunter S. Thompson

“Well, that's pretty much what the schools are like, I think: they reward discipline and obedience, and they punish independence of mind. If you…

— Noam Chomsky

“All through school, we are shown that making a mistake is a bad thing, something for which we are downgraded. This reveals how little…

— Russell L. Ackoff

When I was superintendent of Denver Public Schools, I saw the potential of some of our best and brightest students cut short, punished for…

— Michael Bennet

The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.

— Henry Ward Beecher

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