Able Quote by Leo Tolstoy

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

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 atmosphere [in the school lunchroom] is not quite that of a prison, because the students are permitted to talk quietly, under the frowning…

— Edgar Friedenberg

Schools resemble the culture of prisons.

— Henry Giroux

Any threat to the health and safety of a child in any school or classroom is unacceptable.

— Kate Brown

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

Every child should feel safe at school without feeling like a prisoner.

— S.E. Cupp

Prison is an important part of life. We can't have violent people running around in the streets. (3 out of 4 federal prisoners are…

— Howard Dean

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

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

For our kids to go to school, they must be alive, and for adults to work, they must not be in jail.

— DeRay Mckesson