“He who opens a school, closes a prison”

— Victor Hugo

Also cited as Opening a school is closing a prison This quotation has been attributed to Victor Hugo since the nineteenth century, but the earliest citations attribute the saying instead to French education minister Victor Duruy: Déjà M. Duruy avait posé en fait, quouvrir une école, c'est fermer une prison (1865) English translation: M. Duruy had already suggested that opening a school is closing a prison Disputed Source: Journal des Economistes, March 1865, p. 489 http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433022399574?urlappend=%3Bseq=495

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French poet, novelist, and dramatist 1802–1885

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