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“Perhaps you have heard about the college executives who were discussing what they wanted to do after retirement age. One hoped to run a prison or school of correction so that the alumni would never come back to visit. Another chose to manage an orphan asylum so that he would not be plagued with advice from parents.”

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Author:Robert H. Jackson

“Look, we'll have to confront the pathologies of poverty at some point. We can deal with them cheaply at the front end, in infancy. Or we can wait and jail a troubled adolescent at the tail end. To some extent, we face a choice between investing in preschools or in prisons.”

“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”

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Author:Victor Hugo

“Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.”

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Book:Thoughts

Source: Thoughts

“Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.”

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Author:John Ruskin

“Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.”

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Book:Dear Me

Source: Dear Me

“I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.”

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Book:The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I mean, what is more precious to us than our own children? We are going to build a lot more prisons if we do not deal with the schools and their inequalities.”

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Author:Jonathan Kozol

“we must go on fighting for basic education for all, but also emphasize the importance of the content of education. We have to make sure that sectarian schooling does not convert education into a prison, rather than being a passport to the wide world.”

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Author:Amartya Sen