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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When I was doing poorly at school, my father yanked me out and got me a job in a shoe factory. After three weeks, I begged him to give me another chance at doing well in school. I learned that discipline is necessary to accomplish anything in life.
When I was superintendent of Denver Public Schools, I saw the potential of some of our best and brightest students cut short, punished for the actions of others - kids who had grown up and done well in our school system, and kids who know no other home but America. This is unacceptable.
Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
I run a program called Amer-I-Can. We've taught in prisons, schools, juvenile facilities and we teach in the community. We have the greatest record from the standpoint of dealing with grade point averages, disciplinary action and attendance in schools.
I was the bad kid in school. I was usually in trouble.
Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.
There wasn't a lot of discipline in my life, and I hated it being imposed on me at school.
When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.
The factory model of education is a gargantuan bureaucracy. Some kids are good fits - I wasn't. The system gives you bad grades and tells you you're stupid. You don't think, 'If this kid's not a good fit, it could be the system's fault.'
I have been expelled from five different schools when I was a kid. And I learned basically all what I do by myself.