Paul Hawken Quotes

Too many states spend more money on prisons than on higher education.

Capitalism needs and must have the prison to protect itself from the criminals it has created.

I have an education, I went to college, you know?

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.

Going to college is neither necessary nor sufficient to be well-educated.

Education is the key to the future: You've heard it a million times, and it's not wrong. Educated people have higher wages and lower unemployment rates, and better-educated countries grow faster and innovate more than other countries. But going to college is not enough. You also have to study the right subjects.

I chose to keep teachers in classrooms rather than prisoners in prison..

The jails and prisons are the new insane asylums. That’s what we are.

You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that's the one thing people can't take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.

The regime in too many prisons is one of idleness, and locking up someone from such a background in idleness virtually guarantees re-offending. Instead there needs to be a full day's work every weekday in either the workshops or the education department or preferably a mixture of both.

Television was essentially my college.

Our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.

It's simple: put the money into schools and not prisons.

If there was something that I took an interest in that I'd go to college to learn about, I'd go.

We need to incentivize states across our country to spend on higher education and ensure that we go back to allowing people to go to college tuition-free.

We must do better by offenders who are sent to prison to make them less likely to return.

Higher education is a cornerstone of our state's future.

Even though the Clintons started mass incarceration, which my brother is a victim of, things are going to change, though. Somebody made them do that.

There's definitely a way to fix the prison system. First of all, you gotta get a rehabilitation center in prisons, that every inmate must go through.

One of my main reasons for going to college is to try to get a liberal arts background.

The prison systems in this country actually are exploitative and they are not in any way rehabilitative.

They send you off to college, try to gain a little knowledge, but all you want to do is learn how to score.

One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.

I was told that my going to college wouldn't be good for my career. I think that's nonsense. It's good to empower yourself by cutting yourself off from this business every once in a while.

Education should be a right, not a privilege. We need a revolution in the way that the United States funds higher education.