Function Quote by Michel Foucault

Schools resemble the culture of prisons.

— Henry Giroux

But what is now encompassed by the one word (“school”) are two very different kinds of institutions that, in function, finance and intention, serve…

— Jonathan Kozol

School is a jail. Classes are the cells, teachers are the security guards, and students are the prisoners.

— Sydney Rogers

School is a jail. Classes are the cells, teachers are the security guards and we are the prisoners.

— Anonymous

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of…

— Horace Mann

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

“The institution known as "school" isn't just a facility for doing classwork. It's essentially a microcosm of society, all of humanity put together in…

— Wataru Watari

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

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

When we take out school psychologists, truant officers, counselors, art, music, and athletics, and bring in the police, the school gets turned into a…

— Jesse Jackson

Far from creating independent thinkers, schools have always, throughout history, played an institutional role in a system of control and coercion. And once you…

— Noam Chomsky

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