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Laughter keeps you healthy. You can survive by seeing the humor in everything. Thumb your nose at sadness; turn the tables on tragedy.

Bel Kaufman

My mother, for example, has the pleasant notion that my day consists of nodding graciously to the rustle of starched curtsies and a chorus of respectful voices bidding me good morning.
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Building Good Moning Notion
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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Broken Reading School
Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it.
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Mythology School System
“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.
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Cops Fight Relationship Stuck
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
The heart has its reasons; it’s the mind that’s suspect.
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Heart Mind Reason
Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.
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Children Connoisseurs Value
Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one’s best self.
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Expression Love Self
To the outside world, of course, this job is a cinch: 9 to 3, five days a week, two months’ summer vacation with pay, all legal holidays, prestige and respect.
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Morning Mother Summer
When giving comes directly from the heart, it can never disappoint or embarrass.
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Heart Kindness Volunteer
One of my students had written wistfully of a dream-school that would have “windows with trees in them.
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Dream School Tree
… good teachers, like Tolstoy’s happy families, are alike everywhere.
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Good Teacher Teaching
A teacher is frequently the only adult in the pupil’s environment who treats him with respect.
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Adult Environment Teacher
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
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
Laughter keeps you healthy. You can survive by seeing the humor in everything. Thumb your nose at sadness; turn the tables on tragedy.
BEL KAUFMAN

Laughing Laughter Sadness

Laughter keeps you healthy. You can survive by seeing the humor in everything. Thumb your nose at sadness; turn the tables on tragedy.

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