Everyone believes in sin, the people who charge their peers with political incorrectness and the people who regard political correctness as the bogey of a little mind. What everyone does not believe in, as nearly as I can tell, is forgiveness.

~ Garret Keizer

Garret Keizer Forgiveness Political Correctness Sin

People in the city are poor because they are oppressed, discriminated against and alienated; people in the country are poor because they're too stupid to realize they ought to be living in the city.

~ Garret Keizer

Garret Keizer Kids Poverty Rural School Teaching

I try to remember what I have too often forgotten to my peril: as far as teaching goes, when all you are is right, what you really are is in trouble.

~ Garret Keizer

Garret Keizer Self Righteousness Teaching

Teachers who complain 'These kids have no work ethic' couldn't be farther off the mark. The problem is not that these kids lack a work ethic; the problem is that some of them see no connection between a work ethic and school. None of them would think, for example, to say to a customer at the MacDonald's drive-up window, 'Do you think I could get you those Chicken McNuggets some time tomorrow?' Yet we give sanction to that sort of request when it comes to school assignments.

~ Garret Keizer

Garret Keizer Education School Work Ethic

My master gives me bread and beer and every good thing.

~ Garret Keizer

Garret Keizer Metaphor