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“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.”

Kids School Poverty Teaching Rural

Book:No Place But Here Four Generations of American Literary Friendship and Influence: Melville & Hawthorne, James & Wharton, Porter & Welty, Bishop & Lowell

Source: No Place But Here Four Generations of American Literary Friendship and Influence: Melville & Hawthorne, James & Wharton, Porter & Welty, Bishop & Lowell

“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.”

School Education Work Ethic

Book:Getting Schooled: The Reeducation of an American Teacher

Source: Getting Schooled: The Reeducation of an American Teacher

“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.”

Sin Forgiveness Political Correctness

Book:Help: The Original Human Dilemma – A Wise Exploration of the Paradox of Assistance in Everyday Relationships

Source: Help: The Original Human Dilemma – A Wise Exploration of the Paradox of Assistance in Everyday Relationships

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

Metaphor

Book:God of Beer

Source: God of Beer

“We inculcate in our children the sensibilities of raccoons, a fascination with shiny objects and an appetite for garbage, and then carp about 'the texting generation' as if thirteen- and fourteen-year-olds who couldn't boil an egg are capable of creating a culture. They grow on what we feed them. It has never been otherwise. The only thing that changes is the food.”

Education Students Popular Culture Cell Phones Adolescents

Book:Getting Schooled: The Reeducation of an American Teacher

Source: Getting Schooled: The Reeducation of an American Teacher