Answers Quote by Robert Anton Wilson

Schools resemble the culture of prisons.

— Henry Giroux

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

School is established, not in order that it should be convenient for the children to study, but that teachers should be able to teach…

— Leo Tolstoy

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

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

Most people acquire most of their knowledge outside school, and in school only insofar as school, in a few rich countries, has become their…

— Ivan Illich

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

Real schools ought to provide people with techniques of self-defense, but that would mean teaching the truth about the world and about the society,…

— Noam Chomsky

There is too much repression and suppression in schools.

— Fanny Jackson Coppin

I've been thinking that school, or certainly the traditional English public school model, is like a prison, in that you can't get out and…

— Rutger Bregman

The terror of the ordinary is what keeps many affluent, educated parents and their kids out of the merely 'decent' schools, the ones that…

— Sandra Tsing Loh

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