# Fixing Education

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fixing-education/587669>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [July 3, 2011, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fixing-education/587669 "2011-07-03T00:29:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Recovering\_Republican](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@Recovering\_Republican](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Recovering_Republican)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2011, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fixing-education/587669/84 "2011-07-04T15:08:46Z")

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> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#):
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> Cite?

I don’'t do cites. You guys pretend you didn’t see them when I do, so why make the effort?

But the notion of the "penitentiary"is a recent one. Before that, they just hanged the guy.

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