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When giving comes directly from the heart, it can never disappoint or embarrass.

Bel Kaufman

When giving comes directly from the heart, it can never disappoint or embarrass.
BEL KAUFMAN

Heart Kindness Volunteer
I suggest just Good and Bad at the end of the term on report cards. Or maybe nothing. Frank Allen
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Bad End Good Suggest
Never mind the cream; it will always rise to the top. It’s the skim milk that needs good teachers.
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Mind Needs Teacher
… good teachers, like Tolstoy’s happy families, are alike everywhere.
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Good Teacher Teaching
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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People Teachers Trying
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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Angry Envious Laughing Sad
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
Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one’s best self.
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Expression Love Self
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
Education can’t make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.
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Knowledge Leader School
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
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
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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Long Teaching Writing
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
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
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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