Top 43 Quotes About Prison Education

#1. It made me alert, like someone had scrubbed mint all over my skin. I'd walk into that stinking, miserable prison and for the next three hours, a wise and beautiful woman would float out of the wreckage of my life, and her words and thoughts and tiniest movements were precious.

Jennifer Egan

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#2. Be free! Get out of your prison of conforming thoughts.

Debasish Mridha

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#3. Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

Angela Davis

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#4. Oh my eye Betty Martin! Aren't I glad it isn't me that's going to school! It looks just like a prison.

Henry Handel Richardson

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#5. You're in a situation where you have limited education opportunities, you don't have any money, you can't get a job; what are you going to do? You're going to go back to this criminal network that you actually made while you were in prison.

Hill Harper

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#6. How do we redefine education so that 30-50 percent of inner-city children do not drop out of school, thus ensuring that millions will end up in prison?

Grace Lee Boggs

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#7. Prison itself is a tremendous education in the need for patience and perseverance. It is above all a test of one's commitment.

Nelson Mandela

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#8. They say you can tell a lot about a country by the way it treats its prisoners ... I believe the same can be said for how a country treats its children

Jill Telford

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#9. A person who says "every person has a right to a decent education" may not actually mean "people should be robbed to support bad schools" or "all children should be forced into a prison-like building for 12 years.

Jeffrey Tucker

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#10. Have a great imagination and get out of the prison of pervasive reality.

Debasish Mridha

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#11. When you have wings of love to fly,
why do you sit in a prison and cry?

Debasish Mridha

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#12. If you've ever wondered how many prisons need to operate withinin America, just look at the literacy rate. 60% of America's prison inmates are illiterate and 85% of all juvenile offenders have reading problems.

United States Dept. Of Education

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#13. Going to school is like going to prison ... you have about two weeks to establish your credibility, failing which you're either a punk or as good as dead. Depending on the school, some students can manage ot avoid those stark alternatives, but even at the best school, no teacher does.

Garret Keizer

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#14. But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.

Jeffrey Archer

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#15. Belief is a shelter, a prison for a curious mind.

Debasish Mridha

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#16. Find the window of unconditional love in your heart and liberate yourself from the prison of judgemental and conforming thoughts.

Debasish Mridha

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#17. Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly.

Bobby Scott

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#18. We have allowed our youths to buy into a culture (hip hop) that has been perverted, corrupted and overtaken by prison culture. The music, attitude and behavior expressed in this culture is anti-black, anti-education, demeaning, self-destructive, pro-drug dealing and violent.

Jason Whitlock

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#19. Crime is a social problem, and education is the only real deterrent. Look at all of us in prison; we were all truants and dropouts, a failure of the educational system. Look at your truancy problem, and you're looking at your future prisoners. Put the money there.

Wilbert Rideau

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#20. We are the prisoners of conformity. To get out of this prison, education is the only door and only opportunity.

Debasish Mridha

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#21. All the studies and all the research in the field of criminology affirm that prison education is the least expensive and most effective solution to overcrowding and strain on the budget caused by recevidism.

Christopher Zoukis

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#22. Often religious education teaches us to conform and creates a psychological prison which is difficult to escape.

Debasish Mridha

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#23. Forgiveness is the highest form of a gift of kindness and it brings freedom from the prison of hatred and revenge.

Debasish Mridha

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#24. Humanity suffers because most of us are living in our prison of fixed, false beliefs and we don't want to get out of it.

Debasish Mridha

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#25. You are a prisoner of your thoughts. Expand your thoughts and get out of the prison.

Debasish Mridha

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#26. Most doctors are prisoners of their education and shackled by their profession.

Richard Diaz

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#27. If the people would but analyze the human equation of a prison they might better account for the crimes that are visited upon them in cities, towns, and hamlets, ofttimes by men who graduated with an education and equipment for just that sort of retributive service from some penal institution.

Eugene V. Debs

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#28. Any education that doesn't allow you to think freely is not an education but a prison.

Debasish Mridha

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#29. I was a black boy at the height of the crack era, which meant that my instructors pitched education as the border between those who would prosper in America, and those who would be fed to the great hydra of prison, teenage pregnancy and murder.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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#30. Obesity is a prison; in the US we spend more to treat type 2 diabetes each year than is spent on education.

Paul Zane Pilzer

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#31. A liberal education ... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.

Robert M. Hutchins

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#32. Poverty and a lack of education are the tools used to manipulate their minds. They are in prison just like us, only their prison has more people.

Nigel Brennan

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#33. He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Victor Hugo

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#34. 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.

Amartya Sen

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#35. Education shouldn't be the prison of known knowledge, but it should be the bridge to find the yet unknown universe of knowledge.

Debasish Mridha

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#36. Love is a prison of life where we always like to get in and never want to get out.

Debasish Mridha

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

David Brin

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#38. Be free, not from a prison, but from yourself.

Debasish Mridha

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#39. Most of us are living in a prison of our fixed, false beliefs and never try to find the door to get out to see and feel the beauty of life, even when the door is wide open and welcoming.

Debasish Mridha

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#40. We care (about prison education), very simply, because (prisoners) get out. Almost everyone who is locked up now is going to be set free one day. If we treat prisoners like animals the whole time they are locked up, that's what we'll get when they're back on the streets: wild, dangerous animals.

Christopher Zoukis

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#41. So what indeed! The lesson I myself learned over and over again when teaching at the college and then the prison was the uselessness of information to most people, except as entertainment. If facts weren't funny or scary, or couldn't make you rich, the heck with them.

Kurt Vonnegut

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#42. Providing post-secondary and academic education to only 10 to 30 per cent of our prison population can translate to more than $60 billion a year added to state and national coffers.

Christopher Zoukis

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#43. We are never free when we imprison ourselves in the prison of our fixed, false beliefs.

Debasish Mridha

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