Custodial education does not have as its objective the education of youth but rather social control over them. … - John Conyers

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Wilderness has become one of the world's fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable. Yet unlike oil, gold or woodchips, it is essential to the wellbeing of humanity. We are made of it and fashioned by it. . . our psychological beings resonate with it.

John Conyers

Custodial education does not have as its objective the education of youth but rather social control over them. It suppresses rather than stimulates their intellectual and physical energies.

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