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“Nearly a quarter of American men were in the Armed forces. The rest were in school, in prison, or were George W. Bush.”

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Author:Bill Bryson

“There is the past and its continuing horrors: violence, war, prejudices against those who are different, outrageous monopolization of the good earth's wealth by a few, political power in the hands of liars and murderers, the building of prisons instead of schools, the poisoning of the press and the entire culture by money. It is easy to become discouraged observing this, especially since this is what the press and television insist that we look at, and nothing more.”

Source: A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present

“There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.”

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Author:William Glasser

“Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in prisons?”

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Author:Fran Lebowitz

“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, metal detectors, drug-sniffing dogs, networks of informants, undercover police posing as students, and a comprehensive system of passes so that there is a record of each student's authorized whereabouts at all times. What a perfect preparation for life in a prison or a totalitarian society!”

“If we do not pay for children in good schools, then we are going to pay for them in prisons and mental hospitals.”

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Book:My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962

Source: My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962

“I've gone into prisons, I've gone into schools, I've gone into corporations, all over the world. It doesn't matter where you go, people are essentially the same. Our culture is different, but culture is nothing but group habit, culture is paradigm and when you get past the culture, people are essentially the same.”

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Author:Bob Proctor

“School is established, not in order that it should be convenient for the children to study, but that teachers should be able to teach in comfort. The children's conversations, motion, merriment are not convenient for the teacher, and so in the schools, which are built on the plan of prisons, are prohibited.”

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Book:Tolstoy on Education

Source: Tolstoy on Education

“Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.”

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Author:Michel Foucault

“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