Felt Quote by Sufjan Stevens

Schools resemble the culture of prisons.

— Henry Giroux

“School was out for the day, it was just barely starting to feel like spring, and everybody streamed through the hallways drunk on 3:15-p.m.…

— Emily M. Danforth

Public schools in the late '80s and early '90s were a total mess... we felt that if I was going to have a good…

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

I hated high school. It was a prison.

— Alan Alda

“It is not possible to spend any prolonged period visiting public school classrooms without being appalled by the mutilation visible everywhere—mutilation of spontaneity, of…

— John Holt

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

Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed.

— David Brin

It wasn't for children, seventh grade. You could read the stress of even entering the building in the postures of the teachers, the security…

— Jonathan Lethem

School was a strange place where they tried to make you into something.

— Frederick Lenz

The place resembled a new model prison, or one that had achieved a provisional utopia after principled revolt, or maybe a homeless shelter for…

— Sam Lipsyte

Public school - where the human mind is drilled and manipulated into submission to various social and moral spooks, and thus fitted to continue…

— Emma Goldman

I went to big, broken, under-resourced public schools, but we had a real sense of community, because those were days in the '50s and…

— Deval Patrick