I like the word OLD. Not senior, that’s for proms. Older? Older than whom? ‘Old’ is honorable and ripe
BEL KAUFMANI want to point the way to something that should forever lure them, when the TV set is broken and the movie is over and the school bell has rung for the last time.
More Bel Kaufman Quotes
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Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money-in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one.
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You can’t laugh and be angry, you can’t laugh and feel sad, you can’t laugh and feel envious.
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Learning is a process of mutual discovery for teacher and pupil. Keep an open mind to their unexpected responses.
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A teacher is frequently the only adult in the pupil’s environment who treats him with respect.
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I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.
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Teachers try to make us feel lower than themselves, maybe because this is because they feel lower than outside people. One teacher told me to get out of the room and never come back, which I did.
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Education can’t make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.
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I am writing this during my lunch period, because I need to reach towards the outside world of sanity, because I am overwhelmed by the sheer weight of the clerical work still to be done, and because at this hour of the morning normal ladies are still sleeping.
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Time collapses and expands like an erratic accordion.
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The clerical work is par for the course. “Keep on file in numerical order” means throw in wastebasket. You’ll soon learn the language.
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I’ll never retire as long as I live—that’s like retiring from life! I’ll never stop writing, teaching, lecturing. If you’re in good health, living is exciting on its own.
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To the young, cliches seem freshly minted.
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And that’s it; that’s why I want to teach; that’s the one and only compensation: to make a permanent difference in the life of a child.
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I want to point the way to something that should forever lure them, when the TV set is broken and the movie is over and the school bell has rung for the last time.
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I suggest just Good and Bad at the end of the term on report cards. Or maybe nothing. Frank Allen
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