“Getting Schooled” by Garret Keizer

Zehara Eckert

Quotes:

1. “Public education’s commendable aim of creating “equal opportunity for all” it too easily subverted by egregious aim of creating a clean conscience for the few” (Keizer, 36).

2. “Given my empirically based conviction that a stable home life is the single most reliable predictor of a student’s success in school, I am surprised that Republican Party, self-appointed champion of “family values,” takes no pains to press the point” (Keizer 36).

3. “Mine are “average” kids, but they are by no means stupid kids” (Keizer, 37).

4. “When a classroom teacher can somehow manage to get kids “out of school” either physically or psychologically, then school can begin” (Keizer, 38).

5. “Babies in car seats begin to appear in the hallways, life-size baby dolls as it turns out, a project for a class in parenting” (Keizer, 39).