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“Let it be a challenge to you” means you’re stuck with it; “interpersonal relationships” is a fight between kids; “ancillary civic agencies for supportive discipline” means call the cops.

Bel Kaufman

To the young, cliches seem freshly minted.
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Cliche Language Young
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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Morning Sleep Writing
When giving comes directly from the heart, it can never disappoint or embarrass.
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Heart Kindness Volunteer
A teacher is frequently the only adult in the pupil’s environment who treats him with respect.
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Adult Environment Teacher
People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour.
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Bread People Shells
Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money-in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one.
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Education Jobs Teaching
Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.
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Children Connoisseurs Value
Learning is a process of mutual discovery for teacher and pupil. Keep an open mind to their unexpected responses.
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Discovery Mind Teacher
“Language Arts Dept.” is the English office; “literature based on child’s reading level and experiential background” means that’s all they’ve got in the Book Room; “non-academic-minded” is a delinquent; and “It has come to my attention” means you’re in trouble.
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Book Experimental Level Mindset
I so enjoy being old because for the first time I don’t have to do anything-work, teach, study. I feel very good about myself-and at my age I can say no to anything now if I don’t want to do it. What a liberating word.
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Age Firsts Want
Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it.
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Mythology School System
Best marks go to cheaters and memorizers. Marks depend on memorizing and not on real knowledge. When you cram into your head for a test you may get a high mark but forget it the next day. That’s not an education.
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Cheater Day Next Real
I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.
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Distance Perspective Sense Of Humor
Education can’t make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.
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Knowledge Leader School
The preciousness of every moment is emphasized with every tick of the clock. Isn’t it a magnificent day today?
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Moments Tick Today
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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Art Children Reading

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