06 April 2018

'Qui ouvre une école, ferme une prison.'


The title is a quote from Victor Hugo: "Each time you open a new school, you shut down a prison."

Photo cropped for size and emphasis and brightened from the original here.

4 comments:

  1. Quality schools and employment- two, most cost effective ways to curtail crime and imprisonment.

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  2. Good and free education should be a no-brainer from a government point of view. It's a simple investment in future tax-payers.

    Governments need tax money. Education gets people good jobs and makes people good tax payers. QED.

    This arguments works irrespective of the level of taxation that deem desirable.

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  3. I've seen this meme, but I question the stats cited. Imprisonment seems to be correct, but MA and NJ are not #1 and #2 for school funding. Those regions are NY, Alaska, and DC. None of those have low imprisonment rates either.

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    1. I suppose they harvested the education rankings from the US News and World Report study -

      https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/education

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