School Jail Quotes

#1. The County Jail looked like a tall, forbidding elementary school. Seven stories of dirty brown brick, one hundred years old and now operating at 330 percent of capacity.

Richard Price

#2. When it comes to killing my sin, I don't wait for the miracle, I act the miracle.

John Piper

#3. When you move artistically, the natural inclination is to denounce everything that's gone before.

Billy Corgan

#4. School is a jail, people want there a lot of and when you are out of school what you know from school you remember few and it's useless. So far 12 years at school... (Take it 12 years at jail!)

Deyth Banger

#5. Whether I'm feeding the homeless, stopping by a high school to chat with teens, visiting a prison or local jail, I think that the greatest service you can give is yourself. To be able to help someone who is not in a position to help themselves or possibly ever repay you.

Raheem Devaughn

#6. Fully 60 percent of all young black men who drop out of high school will go to jail. This should disgrace the country. But it does not,

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#7. The smartest billionaires I know never finished high school. I got my degree and my doctorate on the street and an advanced degree in jail.

Tommy Chong

#8. For digital natives, public schools are jails

Bing Gordon

#9. One learns a good deal in the school of suffering. I wonder what would have happened to me if I had had an easy life, and had not had the privilege of tasting the joys of jail and all it means." ~ Badsha Khan, quote in Nonviolent Soldier of Islam, p. 87

Eknath Easwaran

#10. Some of the best projects to ever come out of Atari or Chuck E. Cheese's were from high school dropouts, college dropouts. One guy had been in jail.

Nolan Bushnell

#11. Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.

Mark Twain

#12. Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail.

Benjamin Barber

#13. I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.

Adlai E. Stevenson

#14. Eighty-two percent of prisoners in the United States are high-school dropouts. A high-school dropout between the ages of 30 and 34 is two-thirds more likely to be in jail, or to have been in jail, or to be dead.

Kamala Harris

#15. A hearty meal is easier to digest than one that is too small.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#16. God. How would I cope if I went to jail? I'd never even been to boarding school.

J.L. Merrow

#17. Jail's like school but you can't leave.

Boy George

#18. How many of us readers say this quote and mean it. "If I knew what I know now life would be different" ...

Robert Reed

#19. It is better to support schools than jails.

Mark Twain

#20. Historians are not often appreciated because their research tends to destroy myths. I

Thomas King

#21. It costs $30,000 to $50,000 per year to send someone to jail. You don't have to pay so much to send someone to school at Johns Hopkins.

John Money

#22. If you're black, you were born in jail, Malcolm said. And I felt the truth of this in the blocks I had to avoid, in the times of day when I must not be caught walking home from school, in my lack of control over my body.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#23. School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned. I teach school and win awards doing it. I should know.

John Taylor Gatto

#24. An expert is someone who can tell you exactly how it can't be done.

Peter Diamandis