Cost Quote by Paul Hawken

There is no cost difference between incarceration and an Ivy League education; the main difference is curriculum.

— Paul Hawken

It costs a hell of a lot more money to put somebody in jail than send them to the University of Virginia.

— Bernie Sanders

“In the United States we spend $40,000 a year to incarcerate each prison inmate and $8,000 to educate each elementary school student.”

— John Grisham

As I have pointed out time and again, it's a hell of a lot cheaper to send little kids to school than it is…

— Molly Ivins

I think the skyrocketing cost of a college education has placed it in the sphere of being a luxury-priced necessity.

— Camille Perri

If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Keeping a guy in prison costs 50,000 bucks a year. Executing one costs a couple million.

— John Grisham

Not only are mandatory minimum laws overly punitive and discriminatory, but they're also expensive. Prison is not free. Governments, and ultimately taxpayers, bear the…

— Ralph Northam

“Expensive illogicalities and inefficiencies do not worry the monsters of American bureaucracy, and the taxpayers are enthusiastic and eager to spend fortunes in the…

— Howard Marks

Our universities should produce good criticism; they do not or, at best, they do so only as federal prisons produce counterfeit money: a few…

— Randall Jarrell

I don't think the alternative to Yale is jail by any means. On the other hand, there is a mass of research that does…

— Derek Bok

They often have a lesser curriculum, less challenges, less demands. And it's totally unfair to have these two different systems.

— Richard Harris